Sustainability Principal
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Job Location:
North Yorkshire - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join us as the Sustainability Principal to lead development and implementation of an Environmental Sustainability Strategy for Anglo Americans Crop Nutrients business helping to achieve business and internal group sustainability goals in compliance with internal and statutory requirements.
Lead the development implementation monitoring and performance reporting of the Crop Nutrients Environmental Sustainability Strategy encompassing greenhouse gas emissions water energy and waste management.
Develop and maintain climate change risk assessments resilience strategies and mitigation plans.
Oversee the collection analysis verification and KPI monitoring of environmental data (energy waste recycling emissions water etc.) and ensure accurate reporting in line with statutory obligations and Anglo American requirements (e.g. ESOS SECR).
Lead crossfunctional sustainability initiatives in collaboration with the Project Team Social Performance & Corporate Relations Commercial (marketing strategy business development) Legal and R&D.
Act as the primary interface with project management engineering and operations teams to embed sustainability objectives that support the business case while remaining aligned with scope definition permitting constraints and the project development schedule.
Propose and co-develop practical valueadding sustainability solutions with project teams that enhance the business case without adversely affecting design progress.
Translate project configurations and development plans into clear compelling reports and narratives to support broader business product positioning and advocacy activities.
Manage the interface with the Commercial Team providing accurate reporting insights and strategic analysis on the sustainability attributes of the polyhalite product suite to support marketing advocacy and business development efforts.
Support the development of the carbon neutrality roadmap for the Woodsmith Project and collaborate with the technoeconomic lead to assess study outputs and tradeoffs in relation to the roadmap.
Work collaboratively with the Commercial Team on marketing initiatives strategic projects and business development opportunities centred on sustainability.
Support the ongoing development improvement and maintenance of the Projects Environmental Management System.
Stay informed of current and emerging policy / industry developments relating to sustainability and provide expert advice sustainability matters to internal stakeholders across the organisation (e.g. procurement).
Implement and manage an audit programme to assess project and supplier compliance with sustainability requirements identify improvement opportunities and ensure timely completion of corrective actions.
Lead engagement with external stakeholders on environmental sustainability matters including interaction with Anglo American Group teams and thirdparty auditors.
Qualifications :
Qualifications:
An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline
A postgraduate qualification (Masters / Doctoral degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity
Role-specific knowledge:
Environmental laws regulations and reporting requirements/frameworks relating to sustainability.
Sustainability assessment techniques and tools relating to climate science resource management ecosystem functions and interactions with human activity.
Project management of complex studies and assessments.
Proven ability work within and understand other cultures.
Ability to influence at senior levels challenge the status quo and drive innovation.
Ability to communicate complex information in varying forms (verbal presentation report) to audiences ranging from technical team members to CEOs
Proven ability to justify budget execute and manage workloads.
Safety:
Provides consistent outstanding behaviour in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety.
Additional Information :
Technical Skills:
Ability to:
Effectively utilise analysis tools for interpreting environmental data.
Understand and be able to synthesise cross-functional information across a project/business to drive sustainability performance.
Collect analyse and report against environmental metrics.
Undertake greenhouse gas accounting and reporting.
Evaluate energy use and develop proposals for energy efficiency measures.
Develop management systems to recognised standards.
Social Process Skills
Ability to:
Influence AA Sr. management and technical staff to embed sustainability objectives that support the business case while remaining aligned with scope definition permitting constraints and the project development schedule.
Effectively influence and manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve required outcomes
Communicate effectively across boundaries at appropriate levels
Adapt style to audience to constructively influence in an open and equitable
Manner
Use networks in all stages of decision making to ensure decisions are not made in isolation
Collaborate effectively and work with diverse teams with competing priorities
Actively listen and probe for understanding interacts in an open honest
and constructive manner
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
About Company
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