# Compliance Manager

**Company**: Biffa
**Location**: Leicester
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Waste Management
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4904749

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## Description

We are seeking a Compliance Manager to join our team in Leicester. As a Compliance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving excellence in health, safety, environmental and regulatory compliance across the Leicester PFI contract.

Your core responsibilities:

- Provide compliance oversight across all Leicester PFI operations, ensuring adherence to health, safety, environmental and regulatory requirements

- Plan, lead and review risk assessments, ensuring hazards are identified, controlled and clearly communicated to operational teams

- Establish and manage a comprehensive, risk-based audit and inspection programme, ensuring actions are tracked and closed effectively

- Drive audit readiness across all sites, ensuring documentation is controlled, accessible and compliant

- Act as the central subject matter expert for regulatory interpretation, supporting inspections, audits and site visits

- Oversee incident investigations, ensuring root cause analysis is completed and corrective actions are implemented

- Lead compliance governance for emergency preparedness, business continuity and incident response planning

- Ensure compliance systems, including EcoOnline and COSHH, are maintained, accurate and up to date

- Analyse trends in incidents, near misses and audit findings to proactively reduce risk exposure

- Develop and maintain compliance training frameworks and competence matrices across operational teams

- Support and embed Biffa Management Standards, Blueprint and GIMS, driving continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance

- Collaborate with senior leadership, SHEQ teams and operational managers to ensure consistent compliance delivery

Our essential requirements:

- Full UK driving licence

- IOSH Certificate or equivalent health and safety qualification

- Strong working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation within waste or industrial environments

- Proven experience liaising with external regulators and supporting audits, inspections and compliance reviews

- Experience interpreting legislation and translating it into practical operational requirements

- Experience working across multiple sites or operational functions

- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively

- Confident communicator, able to influence stakeholders at all levels

Desirable:

- NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health or Environmental Management

- Experience with ISO management systems, 9001, 14001 and 45001

- Experience in planning workloads or supporting operational resource management

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Ongoing career development, training and coaching

- Generous pension scheme

- Retail and leisure discounts

- Holiday and travel discounts

- Bike to work scheme

## Skills

### Required
- health and safety
- environmental legislation
- regulatory compliance
- risk assessment
- audit and inspection
- incident investigation
- compliance training
- SHEQ

### Nice to have
- NEBOSH Certificate
- ISO management systems

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