Regional Environmental Advisor

Job Title: Regional Environmental Advisor

Location: Shoeburyness, Essex

Role Type: Permanent – Full Time

Role ID: 19054

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Regional Environmental Advisor at our Shoeburyness site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

Role Purpose:

The Environmental Advisor role will provide competent and professional subject matter expertise and advice on all aspects of environmental management and assessment to all QinetiQ sites, businesses and functions within geographical region of responsibility.

The role must ensure that the sites within the geographical region of responsibility are compliant with environmental legislation and standards, assessing, analysing and collating environmental performance data and reporting information to internally, clients and regulatory bodies.

Key Accountabilities:

1. To lead by example, champion best practice and encourage others to demonstrate appropriate leadership behaviours to promote a positive culture in line with our business standards and expectations for safety and environment.
2. Lead on the ISO 14001 Standard and Audits across applicable sites, ensuring Heads of Sites are aware and prepared for external surveillance audits and assist them in identifying, prioritising and tracking environmental improvements and actions.
3. Take the lead and drive specific environmental improvement programmes and collaboratively support programmes led by others.
4. Work in partnership with site leadership teams to ensure robust, good quality environmental assessments are in place, and are reviewed/updated at appropriate intervals.
5. Maintain knowledge and understanding of current environmental legislation and good practice, and its implementation for QinetiQ. Track proposed changes, ensuring businesses and leadership teams are aware of any relevant impacts to enable them to maintain legal compliance.
6. Lead on effective engagement with internal and external environmental contacts/stakeholders around the organisation through site visits, remote collaboration, and participation at relevant site environmental meetings.
7. Lead on planning ISO 14001 audits for sites within the geographical region, compliance evaluations and workplace inspections and consequent follow-ups, as required.
8. Review and close out environmental incident reporting, working with business / functional contacts to help them improve data quality, and support the investigation/management of environmental incidents, commensurate with their significance/impact.
9. Promote and champion a positive environmental management culture, actively seek continuous improvement, and ensure any significant lessons learned (e.g. from audits, incidents or best practices) are shared widely around the organisation.

Key Capabilities/Knowledge:

• The ability to lead, promote and deliver a culture of continuous improvement.
• Analytical and logical thinking skills and the ability to think in an integrated / systematic manner.
• The ability to identify problem areas in the business and take remedial action in a flexible, supportive and pro-active manner.
• Ability to influence/persuade others to align to a particular course of action.
• Effective interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to team working in a matrix organisation and ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• A good working knowledge of the application of relevant legislation.
• A good understanding of Environmental policies, processes and procedures.
• A strong ‘people person’, with the ability to work with and influence many different people.
• Ability to challenge and question people, process and systems in a direct but non-offensive and tactful manner
• Ability to provide an effective, robust scrutiny of business activities.
• Ability to evaluate situations and information quickly and reach workable solutions
• Personal attributes must include confidentiality, independence, integrity drive, energy and enthusiasm.
• Adopt a ‘hands-on’ approach where required.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Degree / Level 6 Diploma in Environmental Management or equivalent
• Experience, post qualification, as an environmental practitioner.
• Chartered or working towards chartered status of a relevant professional body
• Ability to demonstrate Continued Professional Development
• Knowledge and experience in working with UK Regulatory authorities.
• Working knowledge and experience of ISO 14001 management system.
• Experience in leading management systems audits.
• Experience in planning and leading investigations.
• Experience of working in partnership with H&S professionals, conducting joint assessment and assurance activities
• Ability to travel to QinetiQ sites across the UK

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Competitive holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

For further information on National Security Vetting, please see the link below.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)