Environmental & Sustainability Officer - 35k - Belfast

Job Description

Environmental & Sustainability Officer


CLIENT
A driving force for a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable world, delivering essential services across industries such as offices, airports, hospitals, data centres, manufacturing plants, and distribution centres. By bringing together complementary expertise and resources, we've created a stronger facilities services organisation with greater scale and eficiencies to meet the evolving needs of clients across the region

The Ideal Person

  • A primary degree in Environmental/Sustainability or related discipline.
  • * Working experience, knowledge and understanding of environmental management systems (ISO14001).
  • * Understanding of sustainability and its application to business & industry.
  • * 2+ years experience in an environmental/sustainability role.
  • * IT literate including proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint as a minimum.
  • * A full, clean driving licence


Responsibilities

  • Maintain & continually develop organisations Environmental Management System (EMS) to ISO14001. #
  • Coordinate & support Environmental Working Groups (EWG's).
  • Identify, implement and maintain solutions to maintain compliance and continually improve environmental performance (e.g. in areas of waste, water, air, energy etc).
  • Maintain and develop systems for tracking environmental performance metrics.
  • Deploy an effective internal audit/inspection regime and help facilitate external/third party audits & inspections.
  • Evaluate and help manage environmental performance of contractors.
  • Engage with internal & external stakeholders to maintain and continually develop ESG/sustainability programmes (e.g. in areas of waste, biodiversity, carbon).
  • Develop and deliver training, awareness & communication on environmental/sustainability as appropriate to support positive outcomes.
  • Support wider environment and waste department as requested by line management; and support the wider functions as necessary.


Remuneration
£28,000-£35,000 depending on experience

Hours

Monday - Thursday 07:30 to 16:30 and Friday 07:30 - 12:30


For further information on this vacancy, or any other job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Jack Groves in the strictest confidence.

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