Waste Monitoring and Compliance Manager

This role can be based at can any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Waste Monitoring and Compliance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that your behaviour promotes the safety, health and welfare of yourself and your colleagues. You will be actively promoting UKAEA’s values, championing a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion and monitoring UKAEA, contractors and tenants’ performance against UKAEA site rules and legislative requirements (including, but not limited to; The Waste Producers Duty of Care, Environmental Protection Act 1990, Waste Regulations and Hazardous Waste Regulations). 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Provide training, information and advice to UKAEA, contractors and tenants, to enable all site users to comply with waste legislation relevant to their operations. 
• To act as the Contract Project Manager for 3rd party service providers, such as the office and food waste disposal contract. 
• Collect appropriate operational data, generating reports and progress updates for external regulators and UKAEA’s Waste Committee regarding waste performance against agreed targets. 
• Review and implement improvements to existing waste monitoring and reporting procedures. 
• Represent and promote H3AT’s innovative offerings and technical specialisms both internally and externally. 
• Provide support to and/or deliver projects by providing technical leadership. 
• Work in accordance with UKAEA policy and undertake any other reasonable tasks or duties requested by your manager. 

Essential Requirements:

• Educated to HNC or equivalent in a related discipline 
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management or other relevant professional institute 
• Demonstrable experience of project management 
• Knowledge and understanding of UK waste legislation 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Ability to constructively interact with a variety of stakeholders at all levels of the business 
• Demonstrably proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.