Environmental Manager

JOB TITLE: Environmental Manager

REPORTS TO: Head of Quality and Sustainability

JOB SUMMARY: To provide leadership, monitor and assure that all company’s plants operate in friendly manner, complying with environmental requirements of the Company and regulatory authorities. This also involves activities such as strategic environmental planning, training of associates, liaising with Plant and Head Office management teams as well as regulatory bodies, environmental consultants engaged by the company, among others.

MAIN DUTIES:
Monitoring
• Monitoring of plants’ environmental activities through the analysis of the various environmental parameters – water, energy, solid waste thereby presenting a clear picture of the plants’ status, based on which strategic environmental planning which culminates in improved environmental standing of the company is achieved.
• Monitoring the performance of the Effluent Treatment Plants, to ensure efficient operation, resulting in the production of treated effluent that conforms to environmental standards.
• Liaising with Euromarket to ensure a very smooth operation of the Effluent Treatment Plants
Environmental Reporting
• Ensuring that environmental issues brought out by the reports are promptly addressed to forestall any negative publication that might arise from such issues when enlarged, due to lack of adequate top management attention. By doing this, high corporate social responsibility is maintained by the company.

Regulatory Bodies
• Liaising with environmental regulatory bodies to ensure good relationship. In doing this, full compliance with environmental regulatory statutes and laws is ensured.
• Arranging regular meetings with top management of the bodies to acquire first hand information on new developments and the expectations of the bodies.
• Communicating environmental progress reports of the company to the regulatory bodies, with the aim of scoring some very good environmental points in the books of the regulatory bodies.

Environmental Management
• Playing a leadership role in the formalization of the environmental targets and programmes.
• Identifying the existing skills gap among the plant environmental coordinators and ensures that these gaps are closed, by organizing relevant training programmes and developing environmental tools for use to achieve good environmental practices.

People Management
• Working with Plants and Head office senior (top) management as well as top management of Environmental Regulatory Bodies and Environmental Consultants, thus environmental issues are expressly discussed at the top management level and resolved without much protocol.
• Liaising with Head office and each plant’s top management on a regular basis, thereby positively influences the various management teams to take result orientated decisions in environmental issues.

QUALIFICATION
• The minimum is Bsc or HND in Microbiology or any science based discipline
• At least 6 years cognizance experience in any related food industry
• Professional certification in health and safety is essential
• Must be able to work effectively with other team members,
• Maintain constructive alliances and manage risks intelligently and take responsibility for making well analyzed business decisions (thinking, ‘as an owner of the business) in order to achieve organization goals.
• He or She should be ready to work for long hours as well as accommodate strange and sometimes unreasonable view without getting annoyed.
• He/she should also be ready to travel at any time.

Qualified and Interested candidates should apply by sending their cvs to [email protected] with the job title as subject on or before two weeks from the date of this advert.