Environmental Compliance Officer

Environmental Compliance Officer

Location: Wolverhampton

Salary: £41,387 - £44,867

Contract Type

Full time, Permanent

Closing date: 18 January 2024

Interviews: 26 January 2024

We need great people to help us on our transformational journey from “#goodtogreat”

We manage circa 20,000 homes for the City of Wolverhampton Council and have a growing portfolio of services across the city. We’re passionate about what we do and we care about our city’s future.

Do you have a sound working knowledge of waste and environmental legislation and compliance? Are you committed to protecting and enhancing our local environment? Are you familiar with carbon reduction activity and the Governments ‘Net Zero’ agenda? If so, we want to hear from you!

The priority and importance of environmental management and compliance continues to grow and forms an important part of our day to day operational activities as well as our long term strategic responsibilities.

We’re looking for an experienced Environmental Compliance Officer who will be responsible for ensuring that Wolverhampton Homes meets all of our existing and future environmental regulatory and legislative responsibilities. You will be skilled in process and procedural development and in ensuring they are embedded into business operations.

The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and will manage the control of environmental risks, ensuring that all significant risks are managed as part of the EMS ‘Aspect & Risk Assessment’ process.

You will also possess excellent analytical skills and experience of carbon reduction (Green House Gas Protocol - Corporate Accounting & Reporting Standard methodology - Scopes 1, 2 & 3) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting requirements, in order to support the Asset Sustainability Manager in the development and delivery of the businesses Carbon Management Plan.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the local community. If you know of any potential applicants who may be interested, please pass on these details.

As well as generous public sector holiday and pension schemes, you can expect:

• No gender pay gap between our female and male employees
• A welcoming environment where employees can be themselves. Every colleague has the opportunity to join our equality forum where you can help shape our culture and inform decision making
• Free home energy checks
• 24/7 access to a range of learning and development tools and activities
• Discounts to some of the city’s finest restaurants and shopping outlets, public transport and local gyms
• Wellbeing support including Paycare, to help cut the cost of check-ups and treatments, along with access to occupational health, counselling and physiotherapy services
• Financial support with saving and borrowing schemes
• Salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work and Tusker car

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