Principal Environmental Compliance Manager - Part Time 22 hours per week

The Coal Authority; Mansfield; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

The Coal Authority is seeking a Principal Environmental Compliance Manager who will take the lead in ensuring compliance with environmental legislation across key areas such as water and waste management. This part-time role requires exceptional communication skills and a strong background in environmental management, allowing for flexibility in working arrangements and a commitment to sustainable practices.

Benefits

Pension scheme with employer contribution of approximately 28.97%

Flexible working patterns

Generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days plus public holidays

Comprehensive parental leave policy

Confidential Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking and refreshments at the office

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge in water, waste, and ecology.
• Experience in training and mentoring.
• Attention to detail and ability to manage changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental compliance initiatives across the organization.
• Deliver training and support on environmental matters.
• Manage a team and oversee compliance with legislation.

Skills

Environmental compliance

Legislation awareness

Team management

Communication skills

Education

Qualification in environmental management or compliance

Job description

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Principal Environmental Compliance Manager - Part Time 22 hours per week

Employer The Coal Authority Location Mansfield, United Kingdom Salary GBP 48,200.00 - 53,556.00 per year Closing date 7 Jul 2025

View more categories View less categories Sector Engineering ,IT ,Security Job Role Compliance Job Type Permanent

About You

Do you enjoy helping others to deliver more for the environment?

Do you have a strong technical background in environmental compliance and legislation in relation to waste, water and ecology?

Do you love working with people, and communicating across a wide range of operational teams and deliver solutions with external stakeholders?

If so, read on....

You'll be a skilled professional with a relevant qualification in environmental management or compliance, ideally across a range of areas, but especially water, waste and ecology:

You'll be a people person, able to communicate with a wide range of people and stakeholders to achieve pragmatic solutions.

You'll have exceptional attention to detail, an up to date technical knowledge or legislation in relation to water, waste and ecology and its practical application

You'll ideally have some experience of line and team management, able to mange the workload of your team to ensure we can respond quickly to changing priorities.

About The Role

You will be responsible for leading environmental compliance across the organisation, to include assurance, training, reporting and monitoring of all environmental matters including, but not limited to water, waste, ecology and heritage.

You will deliver training, provide technical guidance, support and monitoring to ensure environmental awareness is maintained for all our colleagues, and will ensure that any changes in legislation are incorporated into our existing processes.

Reporting to the Head of sustainability, you will manage a small team to ensure we maintain appropriate guidance, support monitoring of incidents, oversee our environmental management system and lead on liaison with regulators and other stakeholders.

This is a Part Time role for 22.2 hours per week, which can be flexible 3 full days or over 4 or 5 days

We don't expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.

Role location: Hybrid/Mansfield

Schedule:

Application closing date: 6th July 2025

Sifting date: 7th July 2025

Interviews: 14th July 2025

(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware, and we will look at alternative dates)

Security:

Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

About Mining Remediation Authority

Our benefits:

• A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
• Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
• Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
• Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
• Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
• Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
• Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
• Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
• Unlock exclusive employee discounts
• Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
• Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.

Working with us:

We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.

With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

Who we are:

Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We're united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.

We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with. What's important is that you can carry out your role effectively. That's why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details. If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference. By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.

If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know. You can get in touch by email at [email protected] or give us a call on 01623 637000.

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