Environmental Engineer

Permanent, Full time

Location: Barrow Mill, Barrow-in-Furness, UK

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Our Environmental Engineer leads the implementation of process and management system opportunities across the site to ensure continued legislative compliance and to exceed performance standards, aligning business strategy. They work closely with fellow Environmental specialists across the UK, IFP and Global to ensure common learnings are captured and shared; influence process design and development in environmental management across the UK Mills; and that Kimberly-Clark requirements are understood and applied consistently. Guiding and advising Managers and Senior Engineers on new plant and equipment design to ensure Environmental best practice is applied.

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

Environmental Management

• Be responsive to Corporate and EU/UK Law and other EHS requirements.

• Ensure all critical legal and Corporate reporting requirements are delivered.

• Collaborate with the Environment Agency and other authorities to ensure permit conditions are agreed and complied with

Process Development

• Understand capabilities and limitations of existing process designs. Identify and prioritise opportunities for improvement in Asset efficiency.

• Subject Mater Expert for all environmental matters ensuring sMOC processes are correctly applied in areas of responsibility.

Process Health Management for Waste Water Treatment

• Oversee, Facilitate, Advise and Support effluent plant operations, ensuring that operations are sustained and improved.

• Ensure that results remain within our environmental consent and allows maximum benefit of recycling effluent water back to the mill to allow fresh water reduction.

Waste Management

• Management of KC Duty of Care for all waste arising.

Emissions to Air, Land and Water

• Ensure all legal management requirements relating to emissions to air (Mcert) are compliant and support verification activities.

• Support the management of Radiation sources on site; working closely with RPA and Safety Leader to ensure best practice is achieved and permit conditions are met

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• We will need you to be IEMA Foundation certified for this role, ideally with experience in an environmental role within an FMCG environment.

• The successful candidate ideally would hold an environmental related degree with an ISO Lead Auditor qualification, or be willing to work towards this.