Environmental Engineer

SRG is seeking an Environmental Engineer for a 6-month contract in Barrow-in-Furness, UK. The role involves leading environmental management, ensuring compliance with legislation, and collaborating with authorities. Responsibilities include process development, project support for new plant designs, oversight of wastewater treatment operations, waste management, and emissions compliance. The candidate will provide technical guidance and support data monitoring to enhance environmental practices.
Job Title – Environmental Engineer

Location – Barrow, Cumbria

Job Type – 6 months contract

Principal Accountabilities

1. Environmental Management

Lead the implementation of process and management system opportunities across the site to ensure continued legislative compliance and to exceed performance standards, aligning business strategy.

Be responsive to Corporate and EU/UK Law and other EHS requirements.

Maintain and improve Client’s Barrow Environmental Management System to corporate and internationally certified standards.

Ensure all critical legal and Corporate reporting requirements are delivered.

Collaborate with the Environment Agency and other authorities to ensure permit conditions are agreed and complied with

Influence process design and development in environmental management across the UK Mills.

Provide reactive and proactive EHS support to Barrow Mill.

Support collection of monitoring data.

2. Process Development

Understand capabilities and limitations of existing process designs. Identify and prioritise opportunities for improvement in Asset efficiency.

Work closely with fellow Environmental specialists across the UK, IFP and Global to ensure common learnings are captured and shared; and that Client’s requirements are understood and applied consistently.

Subject Mater Expert for all environmental matters ensuring sMOC processes are correctly applied in areas of responsibility.

Directs and advise Managers and Senior Engineers on legislative environment requirements and how these impact on the Assets.

3. Project Support

Guide and advise Managers and Senior Engineers on new plant and equipment design to ensure Environmental best practice is applied.

Provide technical plant leadership in development, co-ordination and evaluation of environmental impacts; ensuring consultation and alignment with competent authorities around licence and permit conditions.

4. Process Health Management for Waste Water Treatment

Oversee, Facilitate, Advise and Support effluent plant operations, ensuring that operations are sustained and improved.

Provide technical guidance in the development and implementation of robust operational practices

Document and maintain process controls parameters such as good run settings and control charts – Centre lining.

Support collection of monitoring data.

Ensure that results remain within our environmental consent and allows maximum benefit of recycling effluent water back to the mill to allow fresh water reduction.

Ensure management requirements for the self-management of flow (Mcert) are maintained and support verification activities.

5. Waste Management

Management of Client’s Duty of Care for all waste arising.

Oversee IFM Contactors management of our waste streams ensuring legal and Client’s requirements are met.

6. Emissions to Air, Land and Water

Ensure all legal management requirements relating to emissions to air (Mcert) are compliant and support verification activities.

Work through the CPI to ensure compliance with European Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS); responding to changes in the various phases.

Ensure all legal requirements relating to water abstraction licences are compliant with permit conditions.

Support the management of Radiation sources on site; working closely with RPA and Safety Leader to ensure best practice is achieved and permit conditions are met.

Nature & Scope:

Reporting to the Barrow Mill EHS Manager and responsible for all environment systems and supporting activities within the facility. The Barrow Mill is a member of the UK cluster and is Europe’s biggest tissue facility.

The role objectives are aimed at:

• Ensuring the Mill has appropriate systems and activities to support the facility and sector achieving their environmental objectives and legal compliance.

• Continued compliance to the Environment Agency’s permits is essential for continued mill operation.

Qualifications & Experience:

The Environmental Manager should hold a Batchelor of Science Degree in an Environmental discipline; or other Batchelor of Science Degree supported by a Diploma in Environmental Management.

The Environmental Manager must a minimum of 5 relevant experience in:

• Working an Environment Agency Permitted facility

• Waste Water Treatment and Management

• Radiation Protection

• Legionella Management

• Environmental Management Systems (ISO14000)

About the Company:
SRG