Health, Safety and Environmental Manager

Enfinium Community Fund; West Bromwich; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Enfinium Community Fund, in partnership with the Kelvin project, seeks a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager to guide the site from construction into operation. You will shape the safety culture, drive regulatory compliance and liaise with local authorities to ensure responsible environmental performance.

Joining before go-live, you will build the team, embed behavioural safety, manage environmental management systems, and deliver timely ESG and KPI reporting to senior management.

Qualifications

• Ideally a BSc in Environmental or health and safety field, or equivalent regulatory experience.
• Knowledge of boiler water chemistry and treatment regimes is desirable.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to understand engineering aspects of an operational WtE facility and assess risk.
• Commitment to Quality, Health and Safety and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage compliance of the Environmental Management System, audits, policies and supporting documentation.
• Influence site personnel to promote good HS practice.
• Deliver and report the environmental monitoring programme per permits and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual ESG and KPI reporting for the SHEQ Senior Management team.
• Drive and support ownership of Health and Safety reporting, investigations and monitoring.
• Ensure compliance of permit specifications, including biodiversity and landscape plans.
• Assist management with Safe System of Work and Permit To Work systems.
• Ensure environmental regulatory requirements and monitoring routines are met (ESA IBA, QAL2/3 & AST for CEMS, discharge monitoring).
• Perform root cause analyses and share toolbox talks to prevent recurrence.
• Review data daily to identify trends and potential plant defects.
• Ensure conformance to enfinium standards and ISO standards.
• Carry out duty of care checks and site inspections to meet statutory obligations.

Skills

Strong communication

Team player

Interpersonal skills

Education

BSc in Environmental Health & Safety

Job description

About The Role

What you will be doing

This is a very exciting new opportunity to join enfinium and the Kelvin team at its infancy throughout the end of construction and see the site through commissioning and into being an operational EfW.

As you will be joining the team prior to the site being operational this gives you a unique advantage to build your own team and help shape the culture of the future workforce.

Kelvin is an energy from waste facility in Sandwell West Midlands in construction, which was granted planning consent in September 2019 and acquired from developer Verus Energy in 2021. When operational, it will divert 395,000 tonnes of non-recyclable household and business waste from landfill or export overseas. Instead, it will use residual waste to generate 44MW (gross) of renewable baseload energy per annum, equivalent to the needs of more than 95,000 UK homes.

As Health, Safety and Environmental Manager you will a tremendous about of value to Kelvin by actively promoting health and safety culture, embedding behavioural safety and a s the Environmental Manager you will be responsible for liaising with third parties such as the local council and the Environmental agency.

What you will be doing?

Please see below a brief overview of the role and the responsibilities

• Manage compliance of the Environmental Management System, including but not limited to conducting internal audits, external facility audits, developing and reviewing policies, procedures and supporting documentation.
• Positively influences thinking and behaviours so that the site personnel engage, promote and understand the benefits of good HS practice.
• Manage the delivery and reporting of the environmental monitoring programme for the Waste to Energy facility, ensuring all regulatory and management reports are produced as required under the Environmental Permit and other regulatory reporting requirements.
• Prepares site monthly, quarterly, and annual Health, Safety and Environmental / (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) (ESG) and KPI reporting to the SHEQ Senior Management team ensuring all targets are recorded, monitored, and achieved within regulated timescales.
• Drive and supports business ownership of Health and Safety reporting, investigations and effective monitoring.
• Responsible for the compliance of all permit application specifications, including landscape and biodiversity management plans.
• Assists site Management team in managing a Safe System of Work (SSOW) and Permit To Work (PTW) system for general site safety and safety from the system across the facility
• Responsible for ensuring all environmental regulatory requirements and monitoring routines for the Waste to energy facility are met, which will include but is not limited to; ESA protocol for IBA, QAL2, QAL3 & AST for CEMS, extractive monitoring and water discharges off site.
• Preform root cause analysis on incidents and follow up company wide with relevant toolbox talks to ensure the incident/issues are not repeated on Kelvin and the other enfinium assets
• Review and analyse data daily to identify trends and any potential defects within the plant.
• Be responsible in ensuring the site is conforming to enfinium standards, policies and procedures as well as regulatory standards (ISO standards)
• Complete duty of care routine checks, site inspections and audits to ensure the Waste to energy facility meets its statutory obligations.

Desirable qualifications

• Ideally BSc or equivalent, in an Environmental or health and safety subject, or extensive experience gained in a regulatory / supervisory role.
• Knowledge of boiler water chemistry and treatment regimes is desirable. A keen self-starter with good communication skills and builds constructive and honest working relationships.
• Demonstrable personal commitment to Quality, Health and Safety and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ability to understand engineering aspects of an operational Waste to energy facility and evaluate operational requirements against the level of risk in a reasonably practicable manner.
• Confidentiality and attention to detail are prerequisites for the role.
• Team player with strong influencing and interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop and implement pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
• Contributes to a positive team spirit and enhances plant morale.
• Demonstrates respect and sensitivity for cultural/work style and learning style differences.
• Works ethically and with integrity at all times and requires the same from staff.

About Us

Who are enfinium?

As one of the UK's leading energy from waste operators, enfinium is supporting our country’s journey to a Net Zero economy. We do this by operating and developing six decarbonisation hubs around the UK, where we use waste that would otherwise go to landfill to generate homegrown energy.

Today, enfinium has an annual waste processing capacity of over 2.3 million tonnes, and a total combined electric generating capacity of 265MW (gross) - enough energy to power more than 500,000 UK homes. enfinium is owned by infrastructure investment funds managed by Igneo Infrastructure Partners

At enfinium we're guided by five principles, we use these to make sure we're not only doing a great job, but we're doing it in the right and safe way:

One Team- Pride Matters- Safety on Purpose- Make a positive impact- Take Ownership

As a Company, we really value our employees and as such, offer a generous employee benefits package which includes the following:

• Vitality Private Medical care
• Private Dental Care
• Life Assurance
• Company pension with a 6% company contribution
• EV Car scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance programme
• Uniform provided
• Continuous learning and development through our e-learning portal and access to role-based qualifications

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