AddressJob Title: Environmental Advisor
Location: Ashford, Kent
Hours of Work: Day Shift, Monday - Friday
Contracted Hours: 37.5hrs per week
Salary: Up to £37k per annum (dependant on experience)
About Premier Foods
Premier Foods is a blue-chip, FTSE 250 business creating a family of high-profile brands such as Batchelors, Bisto, Angel Delight, Sharwoods and McDougall. Our mission is to enrich life through food – by meeting customers' everchanging needs through both innovation and continued excellent service around the brands we know and love.
In joining Premier Foods, you’ll help a thriving business continue its growth in market share. Our emphasis on sustainability, inclusion, and employee support has fuelled continual financial growth over the past five years. We’re on track to become carbon neutral by 2030.
People enjoy working for us because we are led and shaped by our values respecting and encouraging each other, being agile, championing bright ideas, aiming higher and being united; we are proud of how we treat our people. Your future will not just include personal growth as you make your mark, but you’ll make a difference to consumers and communities. Did you know we were at the heart of keeping the nation fed during the recent pandemic? This is much bigger than just a day-to-day role.
About the Role
In this role your main responsibility will be to lead the sites Environment framework to ensure the Environment Management System complies with statutory and Premier Foods requirements at our Ashford Site.
What we need from you:
The ideal candidate for the role will be able to demonstrate that they can:
- Work with the Safety, Health and Environmental Manager to ensure legal and company compliance to Environment rules and regulations.
- To design and implement Environmental initiatives across the site.
- Maintain full compliance with ISO14001 and Premier Foods Standards.
- To co-ordinate Environmental activities onsite.
- Work collaboratively with the training team to ensure appropriate working practices are trained out to teams.
- Collating and recording of utility and waste data as per schedule.
- Collating and reporting monthly KPI data.
- Manage and review of waste disposal.
- Effective communication, planning and organisation skills.
Qualifications:
- Associate IEMA qualification or similar
- Excellent IT Skills in a Microsoft Windows Environment (applications include, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, with the ability to use and interrogate databases.
- Previous experience of SAP (desirable)
What we offer you in return:
- Opportunities to develop and build on existing leadership skills
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Up to 7.5% pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to an employee discount scheme, The Hamper, with access to hundreds of nationwide retailers
The Next Step...
Click apply and, via our website, upload your CV. Please also provide a cover letter summarising your suitability for this specific role and what shift you are applying for, why you think you’d enjoy it, and why you’d like to join Premier Foods. Upon receipt of your application, we will send you a confirmation email.
