Are you passionate about driving sustainability, environmental, and workplace health and safety? Elevate your career here at Refresco! You will be an integral part of carrying out the sustainability agenda, supporting the Senior leadership teams to drive their strategy in an environment that is state of the art. We are starting to ramp up our sustainability agenda so this opportunity is a chance to shape our future and own the success.
Refresco UK is part of the Refresco Group a multi-national independent soft drinks manufacturer with 78 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America, and Australia in 15 countries.
In the UK we have 6 sites, Bridgwater being the biggest - 158,700m2 - factory including warehouse. We work with all the large UK supermarkets plus many well-known branded drinks producers.
Environmental Specialist – Bridgwater, Somerset
Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Fridays 8:30am – 4pm
Competitive salary, 10% annual bonus, a good company pension scheme, life assurance, 27 days + bank holidays, plus the option to buy additional days.
About the role of Environmental Specialist at Refresco Beverages:
The Environmental Specialist will provide professional support and advice to the Site Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager, sites Senior Team and other relevant functions to ensure a common and consistent approach to all environmental & sustainability matters.
• Ensure ISO14001, IPPC, and EA permit compliance through operations.
• Deliver work tasks within specified time, cost, and quality standards.
• Coach, mentor, and support teams on environmental responsibilities.
• Serve as a reference point for teams on environmental incident investigations.
• Conduct planned inspections to meet environmental standards.
• Assist HSE Manager in maintaining legal registers and providing advice.
• Manage aspects and impacts register.
• Maintain site protection monitoring plan and address sub-standard conditions.
• Prepare, review, and update environmental investigation reports.
• Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs.
Key objectives for the Environmental Specialist:
• Year on year improvements on environmental issues
• Year on year reductions in energy, water & waste
• Successful audit results – no major findings
• Communicate all environmental and sustainability issues
• Achieve and maintain > 95% for Group HSE Standards Self Auditing process
About you:
You will need to be passionate about sustainability and driving improvements on environmental issues. You will need good knowledge on waste reduction, reducing energy consumption and water waste/disposal – effluent plant.
• Environmental qualification or equivalent
• Experience of being involved in ISO 14001 verification audits
• Experience with interpretation of full environmental legal compliance
• Strong computer skills especially MS Excel
• Experience working with the EA
• Experience in supporting and leading audits
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. (url removed).
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
What’s in it for you?
• Competitive pay
• 10% Annual bonus
• Life assurance
• 27 days plus bank holidays holiday allowance
• Purchase extra holiday scheme
• Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits
• State-of-the-art facility with lots of variety and good people
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.
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