Environmental Business Partner

Thalia; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading waste management company in the UK is seeking an Environmental & Sustainability Advisor to embed sustainability and ensure compliance with environmental legislation. The ideal candidate should be degree-qualified, have strong influencing skills, and significant experience in environmental compliance. This hybrid role will involve site visits and remote work, offering a competitive benefits package including a company car and flexible benefits.

Benefits

Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 10%

Contributory pension up to 8%

Private medical cover

Company car or car allowance (£493 per month)

25 days annual leave

Annual opportunity to buy additional leave

Life assurance: 4 x annual salary

Flexible benefits package

Free parking

Qualifications

• Chartered status or working towards it within 12 months.
• Ability to think commercially and apply insights to operations.
• Experience in delivering training and clear reporting.

Responsibilities

• Embed sustainability across operations and drive compliance.
• Provide support to operational leaders.
• Conduct audits and support incident investigations.

Skills

Strong influencing

Communication

Stakeholder management

Solutions-focused mindset

Regulatory insight

Resilience

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Chartered status with a recognized environmental institution

Job description

At Thalia Waste Management, we’re transforming waste into opportunity. We deliver innovative, sustainable solutions that reduce environmental impact while supporting communities and the circular economy. As part of our continued investment in sustainability and best practice, we’re looking for an Environmental & Sustainability Advisor to join our mission.

The Role

You’ll be instrumental in embedding sustainability across Thalia’s operations and driving compliance with environmental legislation. Your work will provide meaningful support to operational Account Directors, enabling them to meet and exceed environmental responsibilities through proactive guidance and improvement planning. You’ll contribute to and help implement Thalia’s Sustainability Strategy, Assurance Programme and Environmental Management Systems, ensuring we are always acting responsibly, and ambitiously.

• Supporting the implementation of Thalia’s Environmental and Sustainability Strategy in line with our business objectives and customer expectations.
• Acting as a subject matter expert for environmental compliance and best practice.
• Advising and supporting operational leaders with environmental risk management, improvement plans, training, and mobilisation activities.
• Staying ahead of legislation, industry standards, and innovations – and translating them into operational insight.
• Assisting with external reporting and audits for our shareholders, regulators, and clients.
• Conducting and supporting incident investigations and root cause analysis, ensuring effective corrective action.
• Providing tailored environmental training to internal teams.
• Supporting bids and business development activities with environmental insight and compliance planning.
• Undertaking audits and reviews to ensure conformance with regulatory and corporate standards.

This is a hybrid role with your time split between visiting our core sites (Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire, North Yorkshire & the Isle of Wight) and home working

The Person

• Chartered status with a recognised environmental institution (e.g. IEMA, CIWM, Environmental Society, IWEM), or working towards it within 12 months.
• Degree-qualified in a relevant subject.
• Strong influencing, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• A collaborative, inquisitive, and solutions-focused mindset.
• Ability to think commercially and apply regulatory insight to business operations.
• Experience in delivering training and clear, impactful reporting.
• Resilience, drive, and a proactive approach to change and improvement.

Experience

• Significant experience in environmental compliance and sustainability, ideally in a complex, operational environment (e.g. waste, utilities, construction).
• Proven ability to develop and embed compliance frameworks and best practice.
• Experience supporting mobilisation, bid activity, or complex project work would be an advantage.
• Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 10%
• Contributory pension up to 8%
• Private medical cover (single)
• Company car or car allowance (£493 per month)
• 25 days annual leave
• Annual opportunity to buy additional annual leave (up to 5 days)
• Life assurance: 4 x annual salary
• Flexible benefits: Access to a wide range of flexible benefits through Bravo Benefits, allowing you to tailor your package to suit your individual needs, including health, wellbeing, and lifestyle options.
• Free parking

Our Business

At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.

We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.

Inclusion

At Thalia Waste Management, we work hard to make sure we are an inclusive and diverse place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV, we’re focused on who you are, your skills and passion that can be brought to Thalia Waste Management. We know and understand the everyone is different and has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We’ll do all that we can to support everyone from their first contact with us. For any support or adjustments needed through our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. As a Disability ConfidentEmployer, we will make sure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.