Environmental and Sustainability Specialist

Ingram Content Group is hiring a Environmental and Sustainability Specialist to contribute to our Operations team in Milton Keynes, UK.  This is a fixed-term position to provide maternity leave cover.

The role focuses on coordinating environmental compliance and promoting sustainable development across Ingram UK's sites. It involves conducting premises audits to inform environmental reporting and programmes, maintaining ISO 14001 certification, and supporting the advancement of sustainability models and standards, including FSC.

Want to join a key team that helps the world read?

Ingram Content Group UK Ltd, is a leader in providing a comprehensive suite of inventory-free on-demand print and distribution services for books to the publishing industry. Lightning Source gives the publishing community options to print books in any quantity, one to 10,000, and provides its customers access to the most comprehensive worldwide bookselling channel in the industry. 

The world is reading, and it is our goal to connect as many people as possible to the content they want in the simplest ways.  If you want to be part of a customer-centric team that strives for excellence, collaboration, innovation, we can’t wait to meet you!

This is a fixed-term position to provide maternity leave cover.

37.5 hours per week Monday- Friday

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for matters regarding UK environmental legislation and standards and ensuring compliance – includes Climate Change Levy, Utilities, Carbon Offsetting, Sales RFP documentation, iso 14001 standards, EMAP, EMOS, Net Zero Targets, European Packaging Directives, FSC, UNESCO, Bookchain.
• To assist in the provision of advice on sustainable development including the environment to all parts of the Business and sites in a timely and effective manner, attending meetings and site visits as and when necessary.
• To review sustainable development / Environmental impact assessments for policies and projects in a timely manner, providing guidance to Team Members to ensure they are consistent with sustainability related compliance, policy, and strategy issues and to maintain related registers for monitoring purposes.
• To assist in data collection to ensure accurate analysis and reporting of information from across the Business and client sites to monitor performance against agreed department and corporate sustainability performance indicators.
• To play a key role in the drafting and production of the annual sustainable development update report and support the production of other reports addressing sustainable development issues.
• To monitor the actions of the Sustainable Development Strategy and related action plans and assist the team to facilitate the delivery of actions.
• To create, promote and analyse the results surveys, producing graphical illustrations to demonstrate key findings for reports.
• Conducting environmental sustainability audits of the Business and workplaces, and practices, advising local managers where improvements are necessary, undertaking premises inspections to identify and resolve environmental management issues.
• To support and deliver operational sustainability training.
• Maintaining the compliance register of sustainability and environmental protection legislation using information supplied by the external environmental legislation update service and identifying relevant changes for the Business.
• Monitoring non-conformities logs and assist operations to complete actions; and supporting the review of related policies and documentation.
• Assisting procurement Team Members to implement the Group Sustainable Procurement (SP)
• Policy by risk assessing contracts against policy themes, reviewing templates and supplier. documentation and providing advice as required.
• To be conversant with SP policy themes, relevant standards and undertake research on best practice to keep the Procurement Checklist up to date, adding additional spend categories as required.
• Maintaining registers to track key suppliers’ performance and implementation of policy themes including #netzero solutions, skills and employment, modern slavery, and social value.
• Auditing contracts and contract management processes to ensure compliance with environmental.
• regulations, the responsible procurement policy, contractual commitments, and advising on areas for improvement.
• Always follow Group and company policies and procedures.
• Report any apparent deficiencies in systems of work or equipment provided that may result in failure of service delivery or risk to health and safety or the environment.
• Use all work equipment and personal PPE properly and in accordance with the training received.
• Report any issues or training needs to your Line manager.

Experience:

• 5 years recent and relevant experience in a similar role
• Knowledge of ISO Standards and requirements inc. ISO14001, ISO50001
• Membership of IEMA (Affiliate or Practitioner)

Education:

• “A” Level Education
• Possess an environmental degree / diploma or working toward completion in a relevant environmental subject i.e., Sustainability / Environmental Management
• NEBOSH Environmental Certificate preferred.

Skills:

• Enthusiastic about the role Sustainability plays in being a successful partner of choice, and the desire to make a positive difference.
• Experience of formulating, implementing, and revising policies and procedures
• Demonstrate an awareness of environmental management systems and environmental tools.
• Demonstrate an awareness of responsible procurement and relevant and proportionate application within the Private Sector.
• Experience of collecting data, maintaining, and analysing data for inclusion in papers, reports and projects or presentations.
• Experience of using a range of information technology applications and an awareness of how they can be utilised in the context of the job role.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work flexibly and accurately with minimal supervision.
• Sound IT and PC skills including Microsoft office packages and Teams.
• Full, clean UK driving licence.
• Trained in provision of advice to managers/supervisors.
• Self- starter, with the ability to work as part of a team & on own initiative.
• Professional approach coupled with strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent planning, organizational and time management skills
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work in and adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to work co-operatively with others to complete tasks and implement process improvements.
• Gathering, analysing, and reporting on key data/statistics
• Flexible and co-operative
• An assertive but calm demeanor
• Good timekeeping and attendance record
• Attention to detail.

Perks/Benefits:

• Life Assurance
• Company Pension Scheme
• Company Sick Pay Scheme
• Continuous Professional Development and Training Opportunities
• Safety Shoes Voucher & PPE Uniform Provided
• Free onsite parking
• Free Hot drinks
• Service Awards