Environmental Compliance Manager

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom London Luton Airport Full time

COMPANY OVERVIEW

London Luton Airport (LLA) is a key gateway to the city of London, which is the world’s largest aviation system. LLA is the United Kingdom’s fifth largest and fastest growing airport, having facilitated 18 million passenger journeys in calendar year 2019, and with strong ambitions to continue this growth story. Passengers have now returned to 90% of pre COVID levels in 2023.

11 airlines operate from LLA, including key carriers easyJet, Wizz Air and Ryanair. LLA’s route network serves over 150 destinations across 42 countries with 24/7 operations. LLA is an integral part of the local region and a major economic contributor to the UK through direct employment of over 700 people and indirectly supports over 10,000 jobs.

Sustainability Successes in 2023 include:

  • Top global performing business on GRESB ESG benchmark
  • Airport Carbon Accreditation level 4
  • Airport with the highest number of next generation aircrafts in Europe
  • 53% of our procurement spend is with local suppliers
  • 74% recycling rate (up from 62% in 2022)
  • 1,000+ trees planted through volunteering
  • £274,000 invested in local communities, impacting over 15,000 individuals
  • Launch of our new Sustainable supply chain charter

JOB PURPOSE

London Luton Airport (LLA) is looking for an experienced Environmental Compliance Manager to play a critical role in our journey towards becoming Champions in Sustainable Aviation through managing the company’s environmental compliance requirements.

The Sustainability function plays a critical role in protecting today and enabling tomorrow and this role fits into the team’s purpose through ensuring we meet our current environmental regulatory requirements whilst future-proofing our operations through the development of a forward-thinking environmental compliance strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • Lead the management and further development of the company’s environmental compliance strategy in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
  • Hold a detailed understanding of current and emerging environmental compliance requirements, and make recommendations to meet increasing requirements
  • Partner with departments across the business (e.g. Legal, Projects, Estates, Technical Services) as well as regulating bodies, to ensure comprehensive management of environmental compliance
  • Excellent understanding of ISO14001 and ISO50001 Environmental and Energy management systems including experience in internal and 3rd party environmental compliance auditing
  • Manage increasing environmental compliance in relation to environmental planning conditions relating to water, ground contamination and other environmental requirements
  • Ensure water discharges to ground, surface water and effluent treatment plants are within environmental permits and trade effluent consents and investigate issues and develop action plans to ensure compliance where required
  • Understanding and management of climate adaptation risks including implementation of operational changes to address these risk in the short and long-term
  • Develop or update necessary operations or procedures to ensure environmental compliance across all aspects of environmental management such as water, air quality, waste
  • Key stakeholder in drainage infrastructure upgrades project to ensure future infrastructure compliances with applicable environmental regulations and meets future needs
  • Ensure emissions testing is caried out on combustion plants including reporting to the regulators including developing plans to reduce emissions
  • Engage with 3rd party partners and tenants to ensure relevant procedures are followed to ensure environmental compliance and minimise the risk to the environment
  • Work with internal teams to identify environmental compliance risks and input into the risk governance process
  • Streamline the environmental compliance reporting process across the business through developing a prioritised list of compliance requirements throughout the year
  • To support the Net Zero Senior Manager and the wider sustainability team in delivering LLA’s Responsible Business Strategy, including supporting on environmental aspects of the RBS
  • Responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and colleagues in the workplace; supporting our journey to create an open and honest wellbeing culture at LLA.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Minimum 5 years of experience working in environmental management role
  • You will bring great technical skills and expertise in relation to understanding of current and future environmental regulatory framework and planning requirements
  • Deep understanding of environmental compliance in a complex business setting, in particular in Environmental Permit, Consent and Planning condition compliance
  • Experience with engaging with regulators and other stakeholder in relation to ensuring environmental compliance for our operations
  • Excellent organisational skills with an ability to meet deadlines, while working in a flexible and collaborative way
  • The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-changing environment
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to take on challenges outside of your comfort zone
  • Good inter-personal skills, with an ability to develop relationships and influence stakeholders
  • A Degree in Environmental Management, Sustainability or similar

This job description is intended to give an appreciation of the role and the range of duties and responsibilities to be undertaken. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific task and objectives will be agreed on an on-going basis. The post holder will be required at all times to perform any other reasonable tasks, as requested by the Line Manager in order to meet the operational needs of the business.

For any further information, please contact the Human Resources department askhr@ltn.aero London Luton Airport Operations Ltd collects your personal information when you submit your application. For more details about the personal information LLA collects, how we collect it, why we need it, what we do with it, how long we keep it and what your rights are, please see our privacy notice at

LLA is committed to fostering, promoting and preserving a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion, as we carry out our mission. We will always be respectful and seek to learn from those different from ourselves. We strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee has a negative experience for being who they are. We welcome all applications



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