Environment Manager

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Environment Manager

Location: Hybrid, connected to our Peterborough Head Office

Do you have a strong understanding of Environmental laws and regulatory frameworks? Are you a strategic thinker with the ability to solve compliance related problems?

We are recruiting an Environment Manager to provide environmental compliance resource across AB Agri's sites, focusing on site-based assurance, legislative requirements, and environmental reporting. This is a pivotal role which will centrally coordinate environmental activities, working closely with site leads to develop environmental management systems and standards across the business.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and implement environmental strategies and action plans linked to Target Zero.
• Oversee the implementation of environmental policies & standards, ensuring they align with regulatory requirements.
• Ensure AB Agri sites are in full compliance with UK, EU, and international environmental legislation, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of evolving regulations and ensuring all operations meet legal standards.
• Liaise with local authorities, public bodies, and relevant regulatory agencies (including Trade Associations) to ensure the company’s activities are compliant with environmental laws and regulations. This will include playing an active role in the ABF Senior Environment leads group.
• Working collaboratively with the businesses, facilitate audits, analyse, and report on the company’s environmental performance, ensuring compliance.
• Perform environmental impact assessments to identify, assess, and reduce environmental risks, ensuring the organization meets legal compliance.
• Coordinate and promote appropriate training and development activities related to environmental compliance & best practice across all sites.
• Develop and implement Environmental Management System (EMS) improvements & associated standards.
• Coordinate public hearings and consultations on environmental matters.
• Manage relationships with the managing directors and internal colleagues. Enable training of staff at all levels on environmental issues and their legal responsibilities to ensure compliance.
• Consult on environmental service agreements, ensuring all contracts adhere to legal standards. This may include due diligence assessments prior to procurement of new companies or services.
• Set organisational compliance targets, develop plans to meet those targets, and oversee the implementation across the business.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Agriculture or Environmental practices such as Environmental Science, Environmental Law, Environmental Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in environmental management, within the feed manufacturing or food industry.
• In-depth knowledge of environmental legislation and regulations (UK, EU, and international).
• Experience in developing and implementing environmental compliance strategies and management systems.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to liaise with regulatory bodies, stakeholders, and internal teams.
• Proficiency in conducting environmental audits, risk assessments, and compliance reporting.
• Knowledge of environmental regulations and laws.
• IEMA Membership at Practitioner or above (desirable).
• IOSH and MIIRSM (preferred).

Please note: you will be required to travel out to various sites across the country and overseas at times to meet business needs. This position has a hybrid working option connected with our Peterborough head office.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonuses, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.