Environment Advisor

Vitacress

Andover, Hampshire
£25,000 - £28,750 pa
Full Time • Permanent
Closing on Mon, 11th Nov 2024
3 days left

Food, Farming & HorticultureSustainability


Are you passionate about the environment?

Want to use your skills and experience to make a positive difference?

Well look no further than here at Vitacress!

As a key member of the team you will assist the Group Environmental Manager & HSE teams in driving forward the company’s environmental sustainability agenda. You will have an exciting opportunity to deliver specific environmental projects, and to provide administrative and technical support across Vitacress.

Main Responsibilities:

Environmental projects:

  • Working across departments to deliver environmental improvements.
  • Leading biodiversity projects and Supporting water projects across UK Vitacress Salads sites.
  • Work with the watercress farms on the phosphate project.
  • Co-ordinating and managing consultants and contractors on environmental projects / works.
  • Work with HSE teams to support the environmental aspects of the HSE champion network.
  • Engage with local community groups on environmental topics
  • Advise on waste reduction and recycling management at Salads and liaise with the Herbs site.
  • Work with HSE managers to develop UK waste management framework, including food waste.

Compliance:

  • Improve the ISO14001 aspects and impacts register to make it more intuitive as an environmental management system.
  • Support the maintenance of the environmental aspects of the legal register.
  • Support environmental permitting and abstraction applications
  • Support the compliance water testing on UK watercress farms
  • Support Hampshire and Dorset watercress farms with water resources returns and water quality analysis.
  • Working with the GEM and HSE Managers to update or develop new environmental initiatives, processes and supporting procedures.
  • Inputting, analysing and manipulating data as required to identify trends and for input to environmental reports, procedures, presentations, tenders etc.
  • Reviewing site documentation as required.

Communications, engagement and training:

  • Create regular environmental employee engagement materials including training, and lead and support on events. Work with the Group communications team on communications for the external and internal audience, including working with our partners to boost our reach.
  • Support and deliver environmental training at UK Salads

You will have keen enthusiasm about a wide range of environmental issues and be self-motivated, focussed, multi-task, well organised and able to work to deadlines.

The ability to plan and organise efficiently and have exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy at all times will be key to being successful within this role.

You will have good knowledge and understanding of environmental issues, including environmental standards and the experience of working in a multi-disciplined workplace.

An environmental Science or similar related degree qualified or relevant work experience would be key for this role. 

Vitacress Salads, based in leafy St Mary Bourne, Andover is one of the principal salad and watercress suppliers in the UK. With our own salad leaf farms, we take immense pride in delivering a field to fork operation. We grow, wash, pack and distribute salad and watercress for retailer own brands and our own brand Steve’s Leaves. We take pleasure in ensuring the best possible standard and we will empower you to do the same. From the way we grow our products, to the relationships we maintain with customers, everyone knows exactly what is going on. We are authentic and grounded. At the centre of everything is a trust that you can feel every day at work. From the salads that are grown on site; to the investment in facilities and the growth of the business; to growing and nurturing out talented employees, growing is truly at the heart of what we do. Join us and become a trusted partner in our business.

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About Vitacress

We grow salads and herbs. We follow the sun to grow fresh produce all year round in the UK, Spain and Portugal.We grow our leaves with care. For the land, nature, and each other. We use the latest innovations to grow safely and sustainably. We place sustainability at the heart of our business. Planting and maintaining conservation strips, for example, provide habitats and protection for our wildlife. Improving biodiversity is just one of the ways we are farming sustainably.

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