Sustainability Advisor

**Sustainability Advisor**:
**Overview of the role**

Do you want to join us as a Sustainability Engineer - ensuring that we make crucial decisions and report carbon emission based on the latest best practice?

You will play a key role in JCB’s Road to Zero strategy - which aims to be informed by the latest climate science to ensure that actions taken have the intended effect of reducing emissions rather than inadvertently increasing them.

**Your Responsibilities**
- Implement/ Adapt a global management system to allow JCB to track and report carbon impact. This should include:
o Agreeing and formalise the local processes by which JCB will report its carbon impact (including documentation processes)

o Driving Monthly reporting against climate change KPIs

o Agreeing & driving an appropriate Quality Assurance process (e.g BSI accreditation)

o Ensure adequate SOPs are in place to allow JCB to report in-line with best practice.

o Deploying carbon reporting training for JCB personnel

o Promote continual improvement and expanding carbon reporting scope as required.
- Identifying and project manage any system development requirements to deliver the above
- Keeping abreast of all relevant carbon reporting legislation and standards to ensure JCB is prepared for future requirements.
- Laying the foundations on the methodology required to report carbon emissions at machine level ready for the implementation of the “Ecodesign for Sustainable Products” Directive
- Be the JCB expert on Carbon Accounting to support and advise other business areas as appropriate.
- Development of the numeric sections of JCB’s future TCFD and sustainability reports

Skills/ Experience Required

**Essential**:

- Desire to help lead JCB to make the right decisions to help mitigate its impact on climate change.
- Understanding of key sustainability topics and how they relate to carbon reporting (e.g circular economy, recycling etc.)
- In depth experience of reporting against the greenhouse gas protocol
- Detailed understanding of the requirements of Scope 3 reporting
- Experience in data collection and cleansing
- Experience of reporting against appropriate KPIs & driving appropriate corrective actions
- Experience of quality assurance and/or auditing processes

**Desirable**
- Experience of carbon reporting in a manufacturing context
- Relevant qualification
- Experience of the off-highway sector
- Experience in writing/ approving SOPs
- Engineering background

**What’s in it for you?**

To say thank you for your hard work, we will work with you to support your career progression and development. We will also provide a competitive salary, company pension scheme, medical insurance and dental care schemes, access to the company’s healthy living centre, 33 days annual leave and flexibility around daily start and finish times.

You will also have access to JCB’s Reward Hub - giving you fantastic savings across a huge range of high street retailers, as well as access to exclusive company perks such as our Cycle to Work Scheme.