Environmental & Sustainability Lead

SMC Corporation (UK) Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental services company in Milton Keynes is seeking an Environmental & Sustainability Lead to champion sustainability improvements and ensure compliance with environmental legislation. The ideal candidate will have an Environmental NEBOSH certificate or similar degree, along with over 3 years of relevant experience. This role involves leading the Environmental Committee and driving carbon reduction initiatives. Competitive benefits include private medical cover and retail discounts.

Benefits

Retail discounts

Life assurance

Private Medical Cover

25 days holiday including a holiday trading scheme

Qualifications

• Environmental NEBOSH certificate, Environmental/Sustainability/Science Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Implementing robust environmental legislation monitoring, controls and reporting processes.
• Internal Auditor training and experience.
• 3+ years' experience.

Responsibilities

• Monitor impact of new legislation affecting the manufacturing industry.
• Ensure environmental legal submissions are completed and submitted on time.
• Chair the Environmental committee ensuring timely actions.
• Report SMC's carbon footprint in line with SECR requirements.
• Lead Waste Management and identify environmental improvement projects.

Job description

Job Title

Environmental & Sustainability Lead

Location

Milton Keynes

Job Type

Permanent, Full Time

Hours

37.5 hours per week; 8.30am - 4.45pm (Mon - Thurs), 8.30am - 3.30pm on Friday

The Company

SMC Corporation (UK) Ltd is based in Milton Keynes, with a well-established 14-acre site. UK customers benefit from quicker delivery and customised product options where required, because many SMC products are warehoused or assembled by hand in the Milton Keynes facility.

From putting the soles on your shoes, to the tarmac they walk on; from a packet of crisps to silicon chips; from wooden toothpicks to electric cars; you\'d be amazed at the things we get involved in. We don\'t do these things ourselves, of course, but we have worked with the people that do... to enable their efforts and dreams to be realised.

Sometimes our role is significant; sometimes it\'s small, but it\'s never trivial and it\'s always rewarding.

The Role

Working at our SMC UK Milton Keynes facility you will champion Environmental and Sustainability improvements, whilst also ensuring SMC UK and the European Technical Centre comply with Environmental Legislation and maintaining our ISO14001 Environmental Management System.

You will lead the established Environmental Committee, continue our Carbon Reduction journey, maintain our Carbon Neutral status, and work with European and Japan colleagues to support SDG, ESG, CSRD and future Net Zero ambitions. You will continue to drive recycling waste opportunities and reducing new packaging purchases.

This is a dynamic role assessing the latest Environmental Legislative changes, managing legal reporting requirements and responding to ever changing business needs or onsite incidents and concerns. You would be driving companywide activities such as Energy Usage Reduction or Electricity sub-metering, whilst engaging with senior leadership, R&D, Production and Sales employees, and essential suppliers/contractors, in an advisory role or promoting SMC sustainability goals, and as such be an effective communicator and approachable.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the impact of all new legislation affecting the manufacturing industry and ensure communication and adherence of all requirements
• Ensure that all environmental legal submissions such as Waste Packaging are completed and submitted by the legal deadlines
• Use & promote the use of the SMC Information Management systems including but not limited to BSI Entropy and Solution Host
• Responsible for chairing the Environmental committee and ensuring timely conclusion of actions and activities
• Ensure that SMC\'s carbon footprint is reported in line with SECR requirements and to a standard that maintains the company\'s carbon neutral status and develop Scope 3 reporting elements
• Responsible for ensuring that the company complies with ESOS reporting, or potentially ISO50001
• Lead Waste Management within the business through ensuring suitable waste contracts for all waste streams and facilitating education around the practical methods of complying with the waste hierarchy
• Required to have a working understanding of ISO Management Systems, especially with regards to ISO 14001
• Responsible for identifying and driving environmental improvement projects at SMC as part of Integrated Management System objectives
• Assist the Quality Manager with maintaining the internal audit schedule

Qualifications and Experience

• Environmental NEBOSH certificate, Environmental/Sustainability/Science Degree or equivalent qualification
• Implementing robust environmental legislation monitoring, controls and reporting processes
• Internal Auditor training and experience
• 3+ years\' experience

What We Offer

The reason for our success is our people. Every team member has a voice, and this contributes to our successes as a company! We take pride in our collaborative, innovative and customer-focused culture where team members feel respected, empowered and valued.

We are continuously working to make our team even more diverse and inclusive. We welcome applications from all and are committed to attracting, recruiting and retaining the most talented individuals. SMC has sustainable development goals as we believe in caring for our futures as well as the future of the planet.

We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including, retail discounts, life assurance, Private Medical Cover, 25 days holiday including a holiday trading scheme and more!

The Selection Process

Upon successful application, candidates will be asked to undertake a first interview online followed by some online testing and lastly a second interview face-to-face, onsite at our SMC Offices.