Role: Environmental Professional
Contract Length: Until 31/03/26
Location: Bristol
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for an Environmental Professional for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONAL
• Requirements - Manages contractual aspects to ensure environmental requirements are captured and manages contractors who perform environmental activities.
• Technical Data - Specifies system-specific environmental requirements with consideration for the environmental consequences of the wider system of systems.
• Legislation/Policy - Work with colleagues at all levels to support compliance with all relevant UK legislation, Defence regulations, client Policy, and DE&S Policy. Contribute to the development and maintenance of policy and process to satisfy the DE&S corporate standards for Environmental Management.
• Risk - Identifies and analyses environmental impacts and contributes to the identification and evaluation of risk reduction measures, ensuring these are adequately documented and managed.
• Design - Supports the development and management of effective Environmental Management Systems, and compliance activities in line with POEMS, on simple sub-systems or with supervision on complex systems.
• Stakeholder Management - Contribute to the development, maintenance, and modification of policy/process to satisfy the DE&S corporate standards for Environmental Management, across a matrix managed organisation working alongside stakeholders and multiple Delivery Teams.
• V&V - Participate and scrutinise the system’s environmental: test, verification, validation, and evaluation process.
• Disposal - Assist in managing the disposals and decommissioning of basic equipment.
• Assurance - Support environmental assurance activities.
• Technical Discipline - Provides informed environmental advice to decision makers through Project Environmental Panels
• Personal Development - Own your career progression and professionalisation. This includes engaging with your People Coach, maintaining membership and registration level, with a relevant Professional body, updating MyHR Career Development/Development Plan, conducting relevant learning and development in timely fashion, and keeping current with modern engineering technologies.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONAL
- Hold any Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics based qualification at RQF Level 4; and
- Have experience of providing technical advice and delivery of successful environmental acquisition/support outcomes; and
- Have technical environmental acquisition/support experience in in a variety of contexts; and
- With a relevant Professional body/institution related to your discipline, be professionally registered* as either:
- Registered Environmental Technician (REnvTech) or
- Registered Science Technician (RSciTech) or
- Engineering Technician (EngTech)
- *Alternatively, if professionalisation registration is not held, you must hold a minimum RQF Level 6 in any Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics based discipline
- Determine and then understand how to apply correct technical legislation, regulation, standards, policies and processes to use and follow during acquisition and support to equipment.
- Determine and then understand how to apply the most effective and efficient ways to process data, assisting those in lower grades to also achieve efficiency.
- Select suitable communication methods.
- Resolve potential conflicts between stakeholders.
- Take appropriate action in reacting and responding to routine issues (such as reporting safety incidents, suggesting efficiency benefits).
- Conduct in-depth analysis on products or process and identify the correct action to rectify issues identified.
- Make timely decisions related to accuracy and efficiency of your own work and others, and the ability to establish priorities and work sequencing.
- Escalate, and manage where possible, risks at the appropriate time to meet all regulatory requirements, including where and when to safely quarantine equipment/products.
- Plan and manage your own time, to meet challenging and ambitious deadlines.
- Decide and implement the correct action for coaching and supervision required for junior and/or equivalent graded staff that you may work with.
- Identify your own shortfalls in knowledge and discuss appropriate options for self-development, setting short and medium priorities.
- Be knowledgeable of where to find the most appropriate internal policy and processes
If you are an Environmental Professional, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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