Compliance Manager/Senior Manager - Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Thalia Waste Management

Description

Job Description At Allerton Waste Recovery Park, we are looking for an experienced compliance manager to lead the way in setting and meeting compliance standards.

As a compliance professional you will have a NEBOSH certificate (or equivalent) and have a strong background in Environmental legislation, Quality standards and Health and Safety as well as a good understanding of a regulated industry.

You will lead local audits and inspections and be the sites point of contact for our external relationship with the Environment Agency, HSE and Local Authority emergency planning teams.

All of this will support our goals to ensure the health and safety of our people, the reliability of the plant and the consistency of good environmental performance.

~ This role reports into the Account Director for the site and is a site based position (HG5 0SD)

Support senior management in delivering the components of the Integrated Management System (IMS) locally, to enable best practice in safety, health, quality and environmental performance, and the successful delivery against the contract and any environmental permissions.

Manage the IMS system locally at the facility via use and development of the current Sharepoint system

Consult, cooperate and collaborate with the HSEQ functional team in the development of the IMS and to maintain and develop documentation required for local management system.

Ensure that Business Continuity Plans and Incident Response Plans are in place and up to date
Assist facility and operational managers with identifying and maintaining legal compliance across the site.
Assist operational managers with identifying environmental performance criteria throughout the waste treatment process.
Ensure that Contractual KPIs have been reviewed and appropriate information provided to demonstrate performance.
Develop an appropriate employee training plan and programme to maintain competence.
Ensure that an appropriate occupational health surveillance programme is in place and maintained
Monitor compliance systems to ensure that activities, tasks, and actions are completed in a timely manner.
Review account compliance data and verify that it is accurate and up to date.

Follow up any outstanding compliance tasks to ensure a risk mitigation strategy is in place, or that issues have been escalated.

Ensure that appropriate environmental monitoring has been carried out and trends have been analysed.
Liaison with external key stakeholders, HSE, Environment Agency, and planning departments

Monitor EHS system to ensure all account incidents, inspections and actions are being actively managed and closed out in a timely manner.

Set and manage a risk-based audit and inspection regime.
Ensure that reporting requirements are set for the account and understood by supervisory and managerial personnel.
NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health or equivalent
NEBOSH Certification in Environmental Management or equivalent
Substantial experience with developing and maintaining compliance systems (e.g. Sharepoint)
Effective organisational and planning skills – ability to set and manage own work programme
Coaching and training skills – ability to support management and staff as needed to implement the IMS
Experience of working within the waste, power, or processing industries
Strong understanding of developing an effective safety culture and promoting continuous improvement while meeting business needs

Clear understanding of monitoring and reporting tools, such as (but not limited to), Pirana, EcoOnline, Scada, CEMS and other such systems as may be used in the business.