# Environmental Lead

**Company**: TEKEVER
**Location**: Swindon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a hands-on Environmental Lead to manage all environmental aspects of TEKEVER's Swindon manufacturing site.

The role will provide visible, practical support across the manufacturing line and offices. You will work with operational leaders, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, facilities providers, contractors, and the wider UK QSHE team to ensure that the site's environmental impacts are managed by implementing proportionate controls and maintaining clear evidence of legal compliance and improving the environmental performance.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the implementation and continual improvement of Environmental Management System arrangements at Swindon, aligned with TEKEVER's integrated management system and ISO 14001.

- Provide competent, practical environmental advice to managers, supervisors, employees, and contractors working across the site.

- Maintain the environmental aspects and impacts register for site-based activities.

- Carry out regular workplace inspections of waste management activities and environmental permit conditions.

- Respond to emergency environmental incidents.

- Lead on environmental incidents and near-miss investigations ensuring corrective actions prevent recurrence.

- Support the Safety Manager to maintain local emergency arrangements covering fire, evacuation, first aid, and other foreseeable site emergencies where environmental impacts may result.

- Plan and support and deliver the environmental aspects of the HSE inductions, briefings, toolbox talks.

- Monitor controls for fuel, batteries, hazardous substances, compressed gases, spray activities, waste, plant, tools, and work equipment.

- Ensure contractors are briefed on environmental emergency requirements.

- Manage and investigate complaints in relation to the operating environment and achieve resolution.

- Maintain complete waste records for all waste streams and permit records.

- Undertake energy management to support TEKEVER's carbon net zero ambitions.

- Lead on Biodiversity Net Gain obligations.

- Lead environmental management at the site, including waste segregation and disposal, spill prevention and response, hazardous-material storage, pollution prevention, and environmental incident reporting.

- Plan and conduct internal audits and support customer, regulatory, and certification-body audits relating to occupational health, safety, environment, and facilities controls.

- Promote a positive culture where employees contribute to improving the site environmental performance.

**Requirements:**

- Environmental Management degree or similar discipline with membership of ISEP at an appropriate grade.

- Demonstrable environmental management experience in a manufacturing setting.

- Practical knowledge of UK Environmental legislation and the ability to translate legal and business requirements into workable site controls.

- Experience of ISO14001 Environmental Management Systems.

- Experience managing environmental impacts associated with hazardous substances, fuels, batteries, work equipment, contractors, vehicle movements, and maintenance or production activity.

- Ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders, landlords, facilities providers, contractors, managers, and operational teams where responsibilities are shared or interface.

- Working knowledge of facilities-management safety and statutory-compliance requirements, with the judgment to identify when competent specialist support is required.

- Practical knowledge of environmental responsibilities relevant to an operational site, including waste, environmental permits for atmospheric emissions, pollution prevention, spill response, and hazardous-material controls.

- Demonstrable evidence of improved environmental performance in a workplace setting.

- Confident communication, coaching, and influencing skills, with a visible and approachable shop-floor presence.

- Good organisational skills and the discipline to maintain accurate records, action trackers, and auditable evidence.

**Benefits:**

- Highly competitive salary with a discretionary annual bonus and a company pension contribution match of up to 10%.

- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.

- Private Medical Insurance (with optional family cover).

- Private Dental care.

- Employee Assistance Programme.

- Flexible hybrid working model.

- Access to a bespoke rewards platform featuring a variety of high street discounts and salary sacrifice schemes.

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## Skills

### Required
- Environmental Management
- ISO14001
- UK Environmental legislation
- Waste management
- Energy management

### Nice to have
- Chartered Environmentalist
- ISO14001 Lead Auditor
- ISO50001 Energy Management
- NEBOSH general certificate in Health and Safety

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