Environmental Compliance Business Partner

Environmental Compliance Business Partner

Reporting to: Head of Sustainability & Social Value

Bristol Airport is the UK’s eighth busiest airport, in the last year has served over 10 million passengers, with over 115 destinations. We connect the people, businesses and communities in our region with new places, new experiences and new markets. We are proud to enable visitors from all over the world to travel to experience our wonderful region for themselves. Transformational development is happening over the next five years to improve the passenger experience including extensions to the terminal and a new public transport interchange.

Demand to fly from Bristol Airport is forecast to grow to around 15 million passengers by 2036. Our growth plans will be delivered in line with the UK Government’s commitment to a net-zero economy. Our carbon management strategy, along with our proactive drive to work with airlines and other airport businesses to reduce their emissions, has been awarded with the highest accreditation amongst UK airports. Our Sustainability Strategy sets challenging targets and actions for how we will decarbonise our own operations and we are on track to meet our net zero operations commitment by 2030. We are also recognised as leaders in collaborating within the aviation industry to support the development of zero emissions flight.

We’re looking for an Environmental Compliance Business Partner to join us and play a vital role in driving our environmental and sustainability objectives across the Airport – from construction projects to operations. As part of the Planning and Sustainability team you’ll maintain high standards of environmental management and compliance. You'll raise environmental awareness, lead incident learning and continuous improvement to protect the local environment and communities. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic individual who can manage multiple projects, seeking to continuously improve internal processes, with a confident approach to stakeholder management.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain and deliver continuous improvement through the BRS EMS to ensure legal compliance and ISO14001 standards are met.
• Plan, schedule and conduct environmental audits and oversee environmental monitoring, continuously reviewing compliance requirements with ISO14001 standards, environmental licenses, planning conditions and Section 106 obligations, and other public commitments made in relation to the environment and sustainability.
• Prepare detailed audit reports, highlighting non-conformities, areas for improvement, and opportunities for embedding best practice. Work with BRS departments across the airport (including but not limited to motor transport, engineering, airside operations, development) to develop and implement corrective and preventive actions based on audit findings.
• Assist in the preparation and coordination of external ISO certification audits. Act as a liaison between the organisation and external auditors.
• Ensure that all management system documentation, including policies, procedures, and records, are up-to-date and compliant with ISO standards.
• Deliver training, coaching, toolbox talks and environmental compliance briefings to BRS departments across the airport to drive environmental awareness and compliance.
• Collect accurate data on the airports environmental and sustainability performance, reporting these internally and externally through the Annual Monitoring Report.
• Manage the investigation of reported environmental incidents, including identification of root cause, trends, remedial action, and lessons learnt to build continuous improvement.
• Respond to environmental complaints, assessing the validity, cause, and any actions arising in a time manner as required by the Airports complaints handling policies
• Manage the implementation of the Bristol Airport Noise Action Plan and review and revise when required.
• Manage the award of grants under the criteria and terms of the Noise Insulation Scheme
• Manage external noise consultants to:
• • Undertake annual noise mapping and reporting in accordance with planning conditions.
  • Undertake strategic noise mapping in accordance with the Environmental Noise Regulations and provide to Defra.
  • Undertake mobile noise monitoring to gather noise data required to handle complaints and noise insulation grant applications.
  • Advise on environmental effects of airspace change proposals
• Oversee the implementation of the Ground Noise Management Strategy, working with operational teams to ensure compliance.
• Stakeholder engagement and reporting on environmental issues and compliance

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential skills

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Membership of IEMA, CIEM, and/or NEBOSH.
• Minimum of five years of internal environmental auditing and compliance experience.
• Proven ability to build effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and to effect or influence behavioural change.
• Highly customer-focused and able to communicate effectively and professionally at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Willingness and drive to learn and actively explore new ways of working to deliver continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and be

Desirable Skills

• Experience gained within the infrastructure sector, ideally aviation.
• Experience of effectively managing external consultancy resource and budget management.

Why join us?

It’s an exciting time to join Bristol Airport, with exciting growth plans as we move to 12million passengers. We are a modern airport, defined by great people who are skilled, passionate and dedicated to providing great service with a relaxed and friendly style. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and disability confident employer - our passengers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues – it is this blend of talents, focus and passion makes us extraordinary.

We offer a competitive rewards and benefits package, find out more about our benefits here.

Please don’t delay in submitting your application. Where roles are urgent or we receive a high volume of applications, we may interview and conclude the process prior to any closing date indicated. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from all walks of life and are happy to support applicants who may require reasonable adjustments. Please contact [email protected] for more information, and to see how best we can support your application.