AddressJoin us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.
You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.
Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.
Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?
At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!
We are currently looking for a Sustainability and Environmental Compliance Specialist to join our team at Hazlehead. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.
The role
We are currently looking for a Sustainability and Environmental Compliance Specialist to join our team at Hazlehead. Reporting to the Process Improvement Engineer, The Sustainability and Environmental Compliance Specialist will ultimately lead Wavin’s Hazlehead site on Environmental Compliance (UK ETS, IPPC & ISO 14001 accreditation), and be a key player in achieving Orbia’s sustainability targets by owning data collection, educating on-site stakeholders, and delivering results.
Responsibilities
Sustainability:
• Understanding, questioning, and reporting of figures through ODISEO – Orbia’s sustainability metric system – which contributes to group wide KPIs
• Educate site leads and key stakeholders on the system and Orbia’s vision with regard to the metrics
• Develop a network of contacts within the business to ensure required information is obtained and recorded in a timely fashion to meet quarterly reporting deadlines
Environmental Compliance / Regulatory Bodies (UK ETS):
• Become an expert in the UK ETS system, starting as the secondary contact, and ultimately becoming the primary contact:
• Lead on annual verifications with Lucideon (Our verifier)
• Understand the repercussions of not adhering to set deadlines/the permit (e.g., fines, notices, non-conformances)
• As an EA contact, you will understand the importance of the site’s GHGE permit, when to notify the EA of alterations and what is expected of us as an installation.
• Review & update scheme relevant internal site procedures and train them out to first line managers/shift managers so they understand their responsibilities
• Take ownership of data collection, activity level reporting and the associated METS system
Environmental Compliance / Regulatory Bodies (IPPC & ISO 14001):
• Become the main environmental contact for the Local Authority (Barnsley Council)
• As a contact of the Council, you will understand the importance of the site’s IPPC permit, when to notify the Council of alterations and what is expected of us as an installation.
• Organise infrequent emissions (to air, land and water) testing and associated data collection
• Support on control statement completion and general adherence to ISO 14001.
Profile
• Competent with figures of varying magnitudes and units
• Previous industry experience in heavy manufacturing
• Comfortable in presenting work / delivering meetings
• Approachable and confident to approach colleagues to collaborate and achieve results
• Reasonable level of competence with Microsoft Office (Especially Excel)
• An appreciation of cost/finance to offer expertise on projects around relevant subject areas
What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers
Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.
Organisation
Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.
Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.
