Environmental and Utilities Management
The following is a basic summary of the core skills we seek in Environmental and Utilities Management candidates:
- To manage the delivery of corporate and contractual environmental and utilities obligations
- To manage and maintain Environment Management System to the International Standard 14001:2004.
- Seek to continually improve the performance of environmental and utilities management
- Seek to mitigate / recover any potential loss to the company as a result of environmental or utilities action or inaction.
Main accountabilities:
- Develop and continually seek to improve environmental and utilities management policy, strategy and operations
- Deliver corporate and contractual environmental and utilities management obligations
- Ensure that you deliver all relevant obligations and agreed requirements. In particular ensuring the effective management and delivery of environmental and utilities management within the companies property portfolio; including compliance with all applicable legal and other requirements, pollution prevention, monitoring consumption of utilities, endeavouring to meet any energy consumption, reduction of waste and other targets appropriately set , and endeavouring to optimise any savings in environmental services and utilities procured.
- Be the lead role in interfacing with clients, statutory bodies, service providers and other teams on environmental and utilities management matters, including attending where appropriate, contributing to, and chairing where necessary any environmental and utilities management working groups and initiatives
- Monitor and seek to continually improve environmental and utilities performance
- Establish, clearly define and implement an appropriate monitoring and targeting regime; including agreeing and implementing energy saving and environmental initiatives
- Ensure relevant statistics are produced and communicated in a timely manner and that associated trends are monitored, analysed and acted upon where necessary
- Audit outsourced environmental and utilities service providers: Establish and clearly define an appropriate environmental and utilities partner’s audit regime. Particularly in regard to specialist energy partners; ensure this audits the performance of the specialist energy partners and the performance of their services including management, monitoring and reporting of their service providers.
- Instigate corrective action when and where appropriate: Establish and clearly define an appropriate corrective action regime. Take appropriate action in a timely manner to remedy any failures or potential failures in service delivery.
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Extensive environmental and utilities management knowledge; wide-ranging understanding of relevant law, principles, best practice, commercial awareness, procedures, pitfalls and loopholes.
- Comprehensive contract specific interpretation; comprehending all contract deliverables and thereafter disseminating to and communicating with those who need to know.
- Robust commercial awareness; knowledge and experience of best practice procurement methods in order to procure utilities competitively.
- Strong communication skills; both written and oral in order to maximise time management efficiency.
- Excellent negotiation skills; capable of persuading and convincing others if necessary and trading to achieve desired outputs where required.
