SH Environment

Financial Services; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

UltraTech Cement seeks an Environmental Compliance professional to monitor and review plant environmental parameters, ensuring adherence to MoEFCC, CPCB, and local regulations. The role involves liaison with government agencies, obtaining environmental clearances, and driving sustainability initiatives across cement plants, mines, and power units.

The job requires coordinating audits, maintaining CEMS/EMISSIONS systems, and supporting annual sustainability reporting while managing the department

Qualifications

• Experience in monitoring and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.
• Ability to coordinate with government bodies for permits and approvals.
• Hands-on experience with sustainability reporting and audits.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Government authorities for EC/CTO approvals and renewals.
• Ensure compliance with EC, CTO, NOC/Consent conditions during plant operations.
• Monitor plant environmental parameters and ensure EMS ISO 14001 alignment.
• Support public hearings and sustainability reporting with corporate teams.
• Oversee budget for environment-related activities and cost management.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder liaison

Environmental management

Audits & reporting

Sustainability awareness

Tools

Enablon

Job description

Job Purpose

To Monitor & review plant environment parameters, & facilitate their compliance as per Environment Management System standards & as per Government & statutory Acts, through effective liaison with Govt. agencies and plant people for smooth operation and functioning of the plant and to ensure conformance with all applicable environmental regulations and policies and to make synergy and strategy related to policy decisions of State Govt. to understand of various environment issues and their strategy.

Job Context & Major Challenges

SCW: 309 O&S, 400 WB and 950 CL manpower

UltraTech Cement is the largest manufacturer of grey cement in India, with consolidated capacity 116.75 MTPA. It has 23 integrated plants, 26 grinding units, 7 bulk terminals.

India’s economic development propelled by rapid industrial growth and urbanization is causing severe environmental problems that have local, regional and global significance. Cement Industry in particular is one of the highly polluting industries as per the Indian legislation. The Environmental regulations have become very dynamic and critical to be adhered with in the recent times. Stringent environmental norms, major changes in Environmental law in line with Global Environmental issues, increased public participation and involvement in decision making, increased environment consciousness, inordinate delays in Environment Clearances process & permissions for projects, involvement of large no of statutory authorities at various levels in obtaining clearances & permissions, legal cases etc have compounded the issue to many fold . Today business & environment go hand in hand and environmental considerations occupy central position at levels in business decision making. Hence the individual cement plants are under constant vigilance on their environment performance. The environment department at the unit is developed with an objective to deal with all such issues and ensure environmental compliance of the unit and streamline the environmental activities in line with the requirements of the MoEF&CC and CPCB and provide required assistance to deal with the environmental issues of the units and facilitate smooth operation of business

Major challenges:

• The amount of Statutory Environment Compliances for cement plant has risen over the last few years and is increasingly becoming a challenge to keep track of all the environmental parameters.
• The person has to keep track of all the new guidelines and notifications pertaining to compliance and take necessary action in consultation with the plant management
• Apart from environment compliance, the reports, data and activities related to sustainability also falls under the purview of this position and involves handling with the information and data on sustainability.
• To adopt good/best practices & educate to among the employees for Participation of environmental award.

KRA1: Strategy & Planning

1. Strategy & Planning: To coordinate with multiple stakeholders including Government authority for the completion and approval of projects. Taking lead to align the unit goals with Sustainability Goals related with Environment.

• Involve in the studying and developing of environment impact assessment report for cement plant, thermal plants and limestone mines
• Facilitate and conduct public hearing for the new and expansion projects as per the guidelines
• Design, develop and execute an implementation work plan for the expansion and renewal projects. This would also involve working closely with agencies and Government authorities.
• Co-ordinate with corporate sustainability team for the preparation and submission of sustainability report & SAQs for sustainability audits.
• Updating environmental data elaborately into the software enablon as a part of the sustainability task.

KRA2: Operation Management

2. Operation Management: To be obtained the Environment Clearance, NOCs, Consents and Authorization for new project, amendments, their timely renewals for the Nodal Agencies. Ensure the Compliance with conditions given in Environment Clearance, NOCs, Consents and Authorization during operation of Plant.

• Filing online /manual applications and co-ordination with Government Bodies to obtain/renewal of Environment Clearances, Consents and Authorizations
• To be obtained NOCs, Consents, Authorizations for new units, any amendments, renewals for Cement Plant, Power Plant, Mines, Desalination Plant & Jetty etc.
• Ensure regular and periodic submission of statutory and compliance reports about the performance of the plant to Government bodies pertaining to EC and CTO on timely basis.

KRA3: Environmental Management

3. Environmental Management: Monitor & review plant environment parameters, & facilitate their compliance inline with Government & statutory requirement. To ensure conformance with all applicable environmental regulations and policies.

• Monitor and review environment parameters for Cement Plant, Power Plant, Mines, Desalination Plant on regular basis.
• Ensuring the performance of Pollution control equipment by monitoring and reviewing.
• Ensuring working of Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) and compliance of its guidelines.
• Review the status of EC and Consent conditions and their implementation status at groud level. Identified gaps, planning to filling the gap.
• Confirmation with all the environment related requirement with respect to rules, policies, NGT/ Court orders, SPCB/ CPCB/ MoEF/ Govts directions.
• Capability building of all the plant employees working in different sections though training and awareness for achieving the Environment Targets.

KRA4: Audit & Legal Complaince

1. Audit & Legal Complaince: Ensure adherence to all the Environment related legal requirement for Plant, CPP, Mines etc.

• Ensure compliance during Environment Audits, during GPCB/ CPCB / MoEF visits. Ensure timely submission of various Compliance reports to Govt. Agencies.
• Conduct Environmental Audit within the plant & mines regularly and identify environmental abnormalities, spillage/leakages to be reported and rectified.
• Co-ordination with the legal cell at corporate office for updating the compliance manager software.

KRA5: Cost Management

5. Cost Management: Implementation of environmental activities at optimum cost without compromising with the compliance requirement of the unit.

• Develop the Capital expenditure/budget for the department as a part of planning and monitoring of activities related to environment compliance.
• Environment Budgets for statutory fees for CTO & CTE, consultancy charges, commitment towards the Conrporate Environment Responsbility (CER), world environment day celebration etc.

KRA6: System Management

System Management: Contribution to the effective implementation of group world class system.

• Implementation of ISO 14001 (EMS)responsible for any NCs during the audits, WCM activity like Work Environment KFA, 5 S audits.
• Comprehensive understanding of Industrial Safety and Environmental Rules & Regulations, EMS, ISO & OHSAS certifications.
• Active participation in system development, World Class Manufacturing (WCM), Sub-committees, Safety Health and Environment committees, BCW Audits, Environment and Sustainability Committee at plant level etc

KRA7: Public Relation

Public Relation: Facilitate and ensure effective relationship with GPCB (Head Office & Regional Office), CPCB Regional Office, Forest Office, consultants, Environment Auditors for smooth operation of Plants.

• Maintained cordial relation and with Officials of GPCB, Head Office, Regional Office, Regional office of CPCG, Forest Departments through regular meetings. Good relation with consultants, Environment Auditors, local communities etc.