Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprentice

Summary

Our Health, Safety and Environment team thrive on ensuring the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues, visitors and contractors and are proud of the industry-leading health and safety standards we’ve achieved across all our sites. It's an exciting time for you to join our team where you’ll be given support to learn and develop your career.

Annual wage

£22,500 a year

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Annual salary increase, dependent on performance

Training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 6 January

Duration

4 Years 5 Months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Assist the HSE Manager in providing the material for induction and training, ensuring material is inclusive and accessible to all
Attend key Project meetings to help to embed sustainable behaviours throughout project lifecycles
Use research developed from personal and university learning to make meaningful contributions to projects and ways of working
To assist in reporting incidents in HSE portal
Support the detailed plans to tackle our energy consumption by improving efficiencies, increase renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions
To support plans to achieve sustainability goals, providing governance, training and stakeholder engagement and building partnerships
Adhere to and model Health, Safety and Environment standards, in line with Company procedures
Apply theoretical and academic understanding gained during studies to real world projects
Ensure you attend regular reviews with the university tutor and complete apprenticeship study requirements

Where you’ll work

Claylands Avenue

Worksop

S81 7AY

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.

Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.

Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.

Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.

Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.

Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.

Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.

Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.

Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.

Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.

Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.

Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.

Your training plan

Environmental Practitioner (Degree) Level 6
Professionally approved or accredited BSc or BA (Hons)
Block release at University
Training schedule has yet to be agreed, details will be made available at a later date

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4 (C) or above)
Maths (grade 4 (C) or above)

Desirable qualifications

A Level or equivalent in:

Maths, Science or related (grade C or above)
Maths, Science or related (grade Merit or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental

About this company

Premier Foods is one of Britain’s biggest listed food companies, employing over 4,500 colleagues at 13 manufacturing sites and offices up and down the country. Many of our brands have been part of UK life for more than a century and you’ll find them in 94% of British households. At Premier Foods we believe in inclusion, authenticity and individuality. We aim to ensure all existing and future colleagues are given equitable opportunities and are respected, valued and encouraged to bring their true authentic selves to work no matter who they are, what they look like, who they love or what they believe in. Our culture is one where everyone is welcome.

https://www.premierfoods.co.uk/About-Us/At-a-glance.aspx (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Successful completion of the degree apprenticeship would give the potential for onward career progression within Premier Foods as an Environment Advisor

Potential career path could lead to opportunities to work within the central ESG Team, Group Environmental Specialist etc.

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