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Salary At Saputo, our best comes from our people. We’re a talented and caring team with a longstanding history of excellence. Since our first days delivering cheese on a bicycle, we’ve grown into a leading global dairy processor by staying true to the culture that defines us. Each of our employees is committed to uphold our tradition of care, quality, and passion through food, and together, we foster an environment where we can all make contributions that matter–from our manufacturing plants to our office locations and everywhere in-between.
This key role within our business as we continue to drive towards our environmental and sustainability goals in one of the UK’s most high-profile regulated sites by effectively implementing the E&S strategies for the site, ensuring we maintain compliance, driving site awareness and employee engagement.
The role covers anything that goes into the land, water, and air (including noise management) with environmental monitoring, incident response, and liaisons with internal and external stakeholders, including the Environmental Agency, community and local group representatives, NGOs, auditors, and trade associations.
You’ll also be working ahead of the curve with a forward-focus on continuous improvement opportunities where we’ll be looking for you to assist with helping us to become even more sustainable with our operations across production and our large-scale water processing facility (WPF).
We are a business that believes in development, with opportunities for you to progress and gain further qualifications.
SDUK's brands include the Nation’s favourite cheese brand Cathedral City plus other well-known butter & spreads (Clover, Country Life, Vitalite, Utterly Butterly, Wensleydale, and Sheese), functional ingredients and dairy-free products.
YOU’LL MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT MATTER BY…
- Actively contributing to ensure compliance with ISO14001, EA permits and abstraction/discharge consent requirements.
- Ensuring reports for the environmental permit are accurately completed and submitted within required time frames.
- Contributing to the monitoring and data collation of carbon management in line with the Saputo pledge for working towards low carbon manufacturing while ensuring records and submissions are maintained.
- Support the E&S Manager to monitor compliance performance, with particular focus on the site’s large-scale WPF, reporting to site, SDUK and global management teams, as well as the Environment Agency.
- Providing support and input to ensure that submissions in respect of Climate Change Levy (CCL) are accurately completed and submitted within required time frames.
- Maintaining records and report on weekly or daily KPIs for permit and therefore site compliance.
- Joining daily tier meetings and contributing to the conversation.
- Providing support to utility, carbon and waste reduction opportunities, and annual plans with engineering & operations teams.
- Building key external stakeholder relationships with staff, contractors, neighbours, regulators and interest groups.
- Raising awareness of the pledges and KPIs to engage staff on sustainability across the site.
YOU’RE BEST SUITED FOR THE ROLE IF YOU ARE…
- Educated to a degree level within a science or environmental management discipline or have relevant work experience.
- Able to display an understanding of environmental legislation relevant to the site and operations.
- Aware of ISO 14001.
- Able to show knowledge and experience working with carbon.
- Able to demonstrate and understanding of environmental legal compliance, with an understanding of environmental legislation.
- Experienced working with the Environment Agency and permits.
- Experienced within an environment like ours (engineering, construction, production, manufacturing etc.)
- Someone who embraces and drives change, with a strong sense of integrity.
WE SUPPORT AND CARE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES BY PROVIDING YOU WITH…
- Flexible, autonomous and inclusive working environment
- Health Cash Plan - claim money back towards essential healthcare such as dental, eye care etc.
- Access to Thrive 24-hours a day - a leading and NHS clinically approved app which focuses on general wellbeing
- Generous employer pension contributions
- Bonus scheme paid quarterly.
- Long service recognised every 5 years.
- Life assurance
- Free, onsite parking
- Discounted branded products
- Subsidised staff restaurant
- 25 holiday days + 8 bank holidays
- My Staff shop - access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings - providing great discounts from thousands of the UKs largest retailers & service providers.
We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join our team.
To enable you to bring your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process.
Agencies - Thank you for your interest in working with Saputo Dairy UK. We have a PSL who will be supporting us if needed. We do not pay fees or acknowledge any CV’s supplied to Saputo Dairy UK unless you have been briefed on the role by a member of the Talent Acquisition Team.
Our business was founded in 1933. Having sold our dairies business in 2015, we now produce and sell some of the best-loved food brands in the UK, including Cathedral City cheese, Clover spread, Country Life butter and Frylight spray oil. We have a fast-growing dairy alternatives portfolio including the Vitalite and Sheese brands and also manufacture specialised ingredients used in infant formula.
Our commitment is to produce high quality, nutritious food in a sustainable way. We do that from our head office, operating sites and innovation centre which are spread across the UK. Since 2019 we are part of Saputo Inc., one of the top 10 dairy processors in the world.
Our commitment is to produce high quality, nutritious food in a sustainable way. We do that from our head office, operating sites and innovation centre which are spread across the UK. Since 2019 we are part of Saputo Inc., one of the top 10 dairy processors in the world.
