Senior Environment Officer - Southampton, United Kingdom - DP World
Description
DP World in the UK is at the heart of Britain's trading future, providing the right trading infrastructure, smart logistical solutions, and the benefits of freeport status to our customers.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Health, Safety and environment department for an experienced Senior Environmental Advisor, to be based out of our operation in the Port of Southampton. Reporting to the Health and Safety Manager, our successful candidate will ensure environmental regulatory compliance and leading business practices related the management, assessment, and enhancement of all related programs. We are looking for an innovative and passionate Environmentalist to champion DP World Group Standards & Governance requirements and to drive the overall DPW Southampton HSE strategy.
Our ideal candidate will be from a heavy plant industry with decarbonisation experience. You will manage multi-disciplinary environmental issues and work with all internal & external teams to ensure environmental issues are assessed, understood, and managed in the most practical and effective way.
Location: Southampton, full time on site
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
About the Role
How you will contribute:
•Manage and lead assigned projects and environmental programs to ensure environmental compliance and best practice related to construction and operations.
•Working with the DPW Southampton internal teams, contractors and environmental regulators to get the environmental permits, licenses and consents required for the construction and operation of the port.
•Managing competitive tender process
•Tracking of expenditure
•Ensuring appropriate Terms and Conditions for services are in place
•Control Procedures and provide training on the procedures to relevant DPW Southampton teams
•Provide a point of contact for environmental incidents that may occur on the Port and provide environmental input to DPW Southampton's Emergency Plans and exercises which are led by other teams
•Present results of environmental projects and programs to the Environmental Advisory Group (regulators) where appropriate.
•Take a lead role in the development and implementation of DPW Southampton's environmental monitoring programs and strategies. This will include developing the monitoring scopes, competitively tendering works and technically reviewing any reports and outputs.
•Work with internal departments to raise awareness of environmental legal compliance requirements and continual improvement while considering financial and operational impacts.
•Involvement with external stakeholder communication and representing DPW Southampton on environmental matters with regulators, customers & tenants, trade associations (UKMPG), NGO's and members of the public.
What you will bring:
Qualifications
•Environmental Science or similar subject University degree
•Membership of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
•A technical understanding of the following is desirable:
Renewable energy and latest trends
Electrification of machinery
Battery technology – charging technology
Hydrogen opportunities, potential, challenges ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
Emergency Response and incident investigation
Environmental Permits
Environmental Audits and Inspections
Air Quality
Water Quality
Noise Monitoring
Waste Management
Experience
•Minimum 10 years' experience with at least 3 years in implementing solutions around renewable energy and decarbonisation strategy
•Worked in the Heavy / marine / Ports & Terminals / Logistics industry for minimum 5 years – Desirable
•Sound working knowledge of ports and marine industry – Desirable
Compensation
DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.
About DP World
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for millions of people around the world. DP World is here to make trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. With more than 106,500 employees across 73 countries, we are pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future. By integrating our physical infrastructure with cutting-edge technology, we create efficient end-to-end solutions, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.
We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses - Ports and Terminals, Economic Zones, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.