Environmental Specialist

2 weeks ago

Leicester, United Kingdom PepsiCo Full time

Overview:
At PepsiCo UK, we’re proud to make some of the nation’s favourite snacks and drinks—like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers, and Monster Munch. With sites across the UK, including our Quaker mill in Cupar and Doritos factory in Coventry, we’re also home to one of the world’s largest crisp factories in Leicester. At the end of 2025 we will move our UK office to a vibrant new Reading town centre location, just minutes from Reading train station.

**Why Join Us?**
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, flexible working, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes. Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure Site legal compliance with respect to environmental policy through clear governance and appropriate action escalation.
- Clear accountability for key elements of GEHSMS and authority to ensure the Operations Team has the correct level of support.
- Accountable for the appropriate close out of environmental non-conformances, incidents, and risk mitigation in a timely manner.
- Accountable for ensuring robust change management is used for all aspects of Environment & Sustainability change.
- Accountable for timely reporting of key environmental & sustainability data both internally and externally, to include: pollution inventory report, WRAP waste and food waste returns, F-GAS losses, UK Energy Trading Scheme, permit variation, etc.
- Act as primary Point Of Contact for Site when interacting with key external stakeholders maintaining strong professional relationships with regulatory bodies (ABPR, Environment Agency, Severn Trent etc).

Qualifications:

- Experience of a regulatory driven organisation & knowledge of relevant environmental legislation.
- NEBOSH Environmental Diploma and Environmental NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent or capability to complete within defined timeline.
- WAMITAB Level 4 certification (operator competency for waste facilities) - advantageous.
- Effective communicator: able to tailor messaging appropriately to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Understanding of lean principles, loss identification and problem solving.

**A Space to be You**
We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.

**Equal Opportunities**
We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.

**About PepsiCo**
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated nearly $92 billion in net revenue in 2024, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

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