Are you passionate about driving sustainability, environmental, and workplace health and safety? Elevate your career here at Refresco! You will be an integral part of carrying out the sustainability agenda, supporting the Senior leadership teams to drive their strategy in an environment that is state of the art. We are starting to ramp up our sustainability agenda so this opportunity is a chance to shape our future and own the success.

Refresco UK is part of the Refresco Group a multi-national independent soft drinks manufacturer with 78 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America, and Australia in 15 countries.

In the UK we have 6 sites, Bridgwater being the biggest - 158,700m2 - factory including warehouse. We work with all the large UK supermarkets plus many well-known branded drinks producers.

Sustainability Coordinator – Bridgwater, Somerset

Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 5pm, Fridays 8:30am – 4pm

Competitive salary, 10% annual bonus, a good company pension scheme, life assurance, enhanced holiday entitlement plus the option to buy additional days.

About the role of Sustainability Coordinator at Refresco Beverages:

The Sustainability Coordinator will provide professional support to the sites Senior Teams and the Site Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager and other relevant functions to ensure a common and consistent approach to all environmental matters.

• KPI Reporting to Finance and Leadership team

• Ensure compliance with ISO14001, IPPC requirements and EA permit through the operating teams.

• Environmental incident investigation: Be a point of reference to the teams on environmentally related incident investigation.

• Conduct planned inspections in relation to the agreed standards within the environmental agenda - Weekly line audits (27 lines, 28 fillers)

• Maintain legal registers and review on an annual basis.

• Manage the site protection monitoring plan and impact study and generate actions to close out any sub-standard conditions. Mitigate all risks on a temporary basis if necessary.

• Investigate high potential incidents.

• Implement and ensure continuity of the site sustainability forums with key stakeholders across the site.

• Investigate high energy & water usage where ratios exceed site KPIs.

• Identify recycling opportunities and keep abreast with new streams of recycling.

• Drive sustainability projects in conjunction with Projects or relevant Engineering personnel.

• Ensure Group and UK ESG objectives are implemented.

• Facilitate the development of a positive Environmental culture through Environmental education, training and coaching to change environmental behaviours and improve performance.

• Support with ESOS audits and the implementation of ISO50001 framework.

Key objectives for the Sustainability Coordinator:

• Year on year improvements on environmental issues

• Year on year reductions in energy, water & waste

• Successful audit results – no major findings

• Communicate all environmental and sustainability issues

• Achieve and maintain > 95% for Group HSE Standards Self Auditing process

About you:

You will need to be passionate about sustainability and driving improvements on environmental issues. You will need good knowledge on waste reduction, reducing energy consumption and water waste/disposal – effluent plant.

Good ISO14001 verification audit understanding
Good environmental legal compliance standards knowledge
Experience working with the environmental agency
Understanding of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Strong stakeholder management

Ideally, you will hold qualifications within an environmental or sustainability subject – graduates welcome.

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

What’s in it for you?

Competitive pay

10% Annual bonus
Life assurance
Enhanced holiday allowance
Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits
State-of-the-art facility with lots of variety and good people

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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