Environmental Compliance Manager

Environmental Compliance Manager

Location: Home-based / National (extensive travel)

Reports to: HSE Director

Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 + car allowance

Are you an experienced environmental compliance professional ready to make a national impact?

We are seeking an Environmental Compliance Manager to ensure full environmental compliance across all Group operations, acting as the central expert on environmental regulation and permitting.

This is a compliance-focused role - it is not an ESG or sustainability role. Your responsibility will be to ensure adherence to environmental legislation, permit conditions, trade effluent consents, and other statutory requirements, providing guidance, oversight, and assurance across the business. The role is home-based but requires extensive travel to sites nationwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct and oversee environmental audits, compliance assessments, and incident investigations across all sites.
• Manage and maintain environmental data trackers, ensuring accuracy and regulatory reporting.
• Act as primary contact for environmental regulators, including the Environment Agency and water authorities.
• Lead permit-related activities, trade effluent management, and compliance reporting across multiple sites.
• Maintain and develop the Group Environmental Management System (EMS) in line with ISO 14001.
• Deliver environmental training, inductions, and toolbox talks to upskill site teams.
• Track emerging environmental legislation and ensure operational compliance across all sites.
• Oversee COSHH and hazardous substances registers, contributing to risk management and emergency planning.
• Provide assurance, reporting, and updates to senior stakeholders, fostering a culture of environmental responsibility.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Minimum 7 years' environmental compliance experience, ideally in regulated manufacturing or industrial operations.
• Degree or Level 6 qualification in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, or equivalent.
• Expert knowledge of UK environmental legislation, including Environmental Permitting Regulations, trade effluent, waste, hazardous substances, and F gas.
• Proven experience managing permits, consents, regulatory reporting, audits, and investigations across multiple sites.
• Experience developing and maintaining ISO 14001 or equivalent Environmental Management Systems.
• Strong analytical, reporting, and data management skills.
• Excellent communicator, able to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proactive and forward-thinking, able to interpret and implement emerging regulatory requirements.

This is a strategic, national role focused entirely on environmental compliance, offering the chance to make a real difference in risk management and regulatory assurance across a multi-site business.

About The Compleat Food Group

At The Compleat Food Group, we're proud to be a food business built on purpose and passion. Formed in 2021, we're on a mission to create Food to Feel Good - great quality, tasty and affordable food that people love to eat.

We're home to some of the UK's most exciting and loved food brands, including Wall's Pastry, Pork Farms, Wrights, The Real Yorkshire Pudding Co., unearthed, Vadasz, Squeaky Bean, Palace Culture, and Harvey & Brockless. Alongside our branded portfolio, we are a leading supplier of delicious own-label pastry, sweet bakery, party food, olives and antipasti, added-value egg products, continental meats, dips and sauces and plant-based food to the UK's major retailers, as well as across foodservice.

With over 6,000 talented colleagues across 17 sites, and an annual turnover of £1.3bn, we're united by a shared ambition to shape the future of food for the better.

We are backed by European private equity firm PAI Partners.

Apply now to join us as our Environmental Compliance Manager and help ensure our operations meet the highest environmental standards.