Environmental Compliance Coordinator

Are you looking for a role where your knowledge, skills and experiences are utilised in a unique environment? If so, we currently have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Environmental Safety team at Heysham 1 Power Station.

The Opportunity

You will be a key part of the team that monitors environmental performance and supports delivery of environmental improvements. This ensures the safe and reliable operation of the nuclear power plant in accordance with the environmental compliance requirements of regulating bodies and industry best practices.

If you feel that your skill set applies to this role, we would love to hear from you! 

Pay, benefits and culture...

In addition to a salary ranging from £40,069 – £71,779 we offer a company pension scheme, paid holidays and a range of flexible benefits that support our employees’ physical, emotional and financial wellbeing.      

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself.  We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.  We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.  We are a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help you thought the process, adjusting along the way as required.   

We value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.  

What you’ll be doing

As an Environmental Compliance Coordinator - your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the station management in championing environmental standards and expectations.
• Take an active role in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the Environmental Improvement Plan and budgets.
• Monitor compliance with all environmental permits, regulations and the ISO 14001 quality standard.
• Support station management in their interface with external regulators such as the Environment Agency and Natural England.
• Being the site custodian for environmental management standards and maintaining the environmental risk register. This will also involve physically observing and auditing environmental practices and coaching and implementing improvements as required.
• Responsibility for completing a Compliance Evaluation Programme for the site covering all environmental areas.
• Provision of technical advice on specialist environmental matters including discharges to water, combustion process activities, oil and chemical storage and hazardous waste disposal.
• Supporting the sites defueling and decommissioning preparations including oversight of environmental permissioning for decommissioning and waste management planning activities.    

Who you are 

You will be qualified to degree level or HNC (or equivalent) in a science, environment or engineering discipline. Experience in environmental compliance or a similar environmental role is an advantage. At this level, you should be able to demonstrate knowledge of environmental legislation relevant to a nuclear power station or a large industrial facility.

Essential competencies to perform this role include:

• You will be confident communicator; sharing technical information with a range of internal customers/stakeholders across the power station and wider company.
• You will consider safety as paramount importance with ability to work safely and to organise self and others, to work flexibly to deliver against a mix of short- and long-term targets, and to identify improvements to existing methods and procedures.
• The drive to succeed in all formal on/off site training courses and work through training programmes with support of Group Head and mentors in order to achieve. 
• You will be solutions focused working to resolve situations in new or unfamiliar circumstances and manage consequences of implementation of such solutions. 

Closing date for applications: Sunday July 14th       

Interviews to be held week commencing Monday July 29th    

 Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties. 

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

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