## Environment Manager - Peterborough
**Job Title:** Environment Manager
**Location:** Hybrid, connected to our Peterborough Head Office
Do you have a strong understanding of Environmental laws and regulatory
frameworks? Are you a strategic thinker with the ability to solve compliance
related problems?
We are recruiting an Environment Manager to provide environmental compliance
resource across AB Agris sites, focusing on site-based assurance, legislative
requirements, and environmental reporting. This is a pivotal role which will
centrally coordinate environmental activities, working closely with site leads
to develop environmental management systems and standards across the business.
**What youll be doing:**
* Develop and implement environmental strategies and action plans linked to Target Zero.
* Oversee the implementation of environmental policies & standards, ensuring they align with regulatory requirements
* Ensure AB Agri sites are in full compliance with UK, EU, and international environmental legislation, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of evolving regulations and ensuring all operations meet legal standards.
* Liaise with local authorities, public bodies, and relevant regulatory agencies (including Trade Associations) to ensure the company’s activities are compliant with environmental laws and regulations. This will include playing an active role in the ABF Senior Environment leads group.
* Working collaboratively with the businesses, facilitate audits, analyse, and report on the company’s environmental performance, ensuring compliance.
* Perform environmental impact assessments to identify, assess, and reduce environmental risks, ensuring the organization meets legal compliance.
* Coordinate and promote appropriate training and development activities related to environmental compliance & best practise across all sites.
* Develop and implement Environmental Management System(EMS) improvements & associated standards.
* Coordinate public hearings and consultations on environmental matters.
* Manage relationships with the managing directors and internal colleagues. Enable training of staff at all levels on environmental issues and their legal responsibilities to ensure compliance.
* Consult on environmental service agreements, ensuring all contracts adhere to legal standards. This may include due diligence assessments prior to procurement of new companies or services.
* Set organisational compliance targets, develop plans to meet those targets, and oversee the implementation across the business.
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**What youll bring:**
* Bachelors degree in Science, Agriculture or Environmental practises such as Environmental Science, Environmental Law, Environmental Engineering, or a related field.
* Experience in environmental management, within the feed manufacturing or food industry.
* In-depth knowledge of environmental legislation and regulations (UK, EU, and international).
* Experience in developing and implementing environmental compliance strategies and management systems.
* Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to liaise with regulatory bodies, stakeholders, and internal teams.
* Proficiency in conducting environmental audits, risk assessments, and compliance reporting.
* Knowledge of environmental regulations and laws.
* IEMA Membership at Practitioner or above (desirable).
* IOSH and MIIRSM (preferred).
**Please note** - you will be required to travel out to various sites across
the country and oversees at times to meet business needs. This position has a
hybrid working option connected with our Peterborough head office.
## About the Company
**Rewarding your passion**
When you join us, youll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.
From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and
enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the
ways we reward you - from day one.
**About us**
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate
about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal
feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data
services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our
customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different
life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair,
innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our
application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any
additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a
support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else)
just let us know.
**Application Notes**
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to
hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need
to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our
careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure
our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This
information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by
the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t
affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
**Agencies and media sales**
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media
sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept
the fees associated with them.