Sustainability Manager

Sustainability Manager - Rochdale 

Salary – range from £38,000 - £42,000 (dependent upon experience)

Our Compliance team is growing! We are seeking to recruit a candidate for the role of Sustainability Manager to join our team in Rochdale. We offer competitive packages, benefits and much more. We offer a supportive and development focused culture which is tailored to each individual.

This role is a partially start up position, we are passionate and committed to our environmental impact and align our objectives and operations to ISO 14001. This role provides a pivotal stance in achieving our sustainability goals. As a start up role, this is an opportunity for the right candidate to make this their own!

A&F Sprinklers has been established since 1986 and has seen rapid growth over the past 5-10 years. We are continuing to grow and develop our business and with your help we will all succeed. A&F Sprinklers is now an Employee-Owned Business as part of an EOT.

What we can offer you:

• Salary – range from £38,000 - £42,000 (dependent upon experience)
• Annual Leave – up to 34 days per year including bank holidays, close down for Christmas period.
• Company Performance Bonus – our bonus scheme runs twice per year in summer and winter.
• Private Health Care – protection for your health for you!
• Life Assurance – giving you peace of mind in the event of passing.
• Employee Assistance Program – that little extra support where you need it most.
• Wellbeing Events – various of initiatives for team building and wellbeing.
• Long Service Awards – ranges from meals, hotels, weekends away! Not bad, eh?
• Bespoke Development Programs – training and development that suits you, not just a tick in the box.
• Friday Early Finishes – 3pm finishes.
• Various Charity and Social Events – we genuinely care about others.
• Health Surveillance – caring about you and your health.

Best of all, you’ll be part of an Employee Owned business!

The Sustainability Manager Role (not limited to):

• Management of the Sustainability business function to demonstrate a clear, defined department function across the business.
• Devise, build and grow a sustainable culture, brand and department in a 360 role.
• Analyse, collate and document cardon raw data.
• Communicate, coordinate, liaise with department heads, senior teams to gather data and covert into carbon emissions.
• Generate reports to senior management to make informed decisions of carbon reduction targets and objectives.
• Proactively source accurate and sound information for carbon emissions functions
• Proactively seek, discuss, educate our supply chain on the importance of sustainability.
• Communicate the business’ sustainability initiatives internally and externally
• Actively promoting the business’ sustainability initiatives and development to key stakeholders
• Deliver sustainability training to the wider business to build understanding
• Develop with external bodies EPD’s and embodied carbon factors
• Develop a stand alone function that forms a fundamental aspect of the compliance team not only for A&F Sprinklers but for our subsidiary.

The Ideal Skills of the Sustainability Manager Role:

• Experience within a similar role is advantageous
• Comfort and desire for data analysis, interpretation and gathering.
• A self starter and proactive mindset who is comfortable to work at own initiative.
• Attention to detail and ability to apply analytical thinking in problem solving.
• Excellent communication/customer facing skills with clear discipline and organising.
• A keen interest in sustainability, its requirements, Government policies.
• (Desirable) Knowledge and experience with ISO 14001