Job Title: Environmental Higher Apprenticeship
Location: Port Talbot
Business: Sustainability & Environment Department, TSUK
Salary: Year 1 £16,710, Year 2 £19,201
Length of apprenticeship: 2 years
Closing Date: Monday 11th April 2022
At Tata Steel we believe that our strength is not just in our steel, but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.
We pride ourselves on our world-class products, processes and people. We value individuality and believe that exposing people to genuine challenges on live projects fosters creativity and allows potential to be fulfilled.
Apply today and let’s make the difference together
The Role
We are recruiting for an Environmental Higher Apprentice to be based within the Sustainability & and Environment function located at our site in Port Talbot, South Wales. The position will initially report into the Environment Manager, TSUK Operations and will support and contribute to the Environment Team’s objective of ensuring that Tata Steel UK (TSUK) manufacturing operations (i) meets the requirements of company’s environmental policy, (ii) complies with permit conditions and relevant environmental legislation and (iii) facilitates continuous environmental improvement, in a technically robust and cost effective manner.
Work will involve supporting and contributing to the identification, development, implementation and continuous improvement of appropriate environmental processes to ensure ongoing compliance with the statutory obligations and all other relevant environmental legislation. Additionally supporting the development and delivery of the TSUK environmental strategies to effectively ensure that the compliance and continuously improvement with statutory obligations and ISO 14001 certification is maintained.
There will be an opportunity to develop detailed knowledge and understanding of the United Kingdom Emission Trading Scheme (UKETS) compliance requirements working closely with the Environment Lead, Emission Trading Scheme, to support with the continuous improvement of appropriate processes to ensure ongoing compliance with the statutory obligations and all relevant legislation.
The Apprenticeship
During your higher apprenticeship you will study towards an NVQ Level 3 in Business Improvements Techniques and an IEMA Certificate – in Environmental Management.
All our higher apprentice programmes commence in August/September 2022.
The Candidate
To be considered for this apprenticeship you will need to have at least 5 GCSEs or equivalent (including English, Maths and Science) at Grades A* – C or level 4 – 9
AND
3 A-levels (or equivalent qualifications), one of which in a Science or Engineering-related subject. An A-level in Business Studies or business related topic is desirable.
You will have a keen interest in the following:-
- Improving the environmental performance of industrial equipment and processes
- Complex data analysis, reporting and problem-solving
- United Kingdom Emission Trading Scheme (UKETS)
The Benefits
As well as a competitive starting salary, you will also be eligible for a wide variety of benefits including:
- Nationally recognised qualifications
- Employment opportunities and career progression
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Ongoing Tata Steel training, which has built a reputation as one of the best within the industry
- One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)
- Discounted shopping with various local and national retailers and services including Vodafone, Nandos, Virgin Holidays, Jaguar Land Rover, ASOS.
- Free onsite parking at all of our sites
- Annual Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
The Business
Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.
Tata Steel is working towards a short-term target of reducing CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 and our long-term ambition of carbon neutral steelmaking by 2050 in four key areas:
- Optimising the emissions across all sites and activities, including shipping and logistics.
- Concertedly focusing on reducing yield losses throughout our internal supply chain in order to reduce the amount of carbon emitted for every tonne of final product delivered to our customers.
- Making concrete progress in our long-term carbon reduction strategy development and deployment in the two integrated hubs.
- Continuing to develop products and services that enable us to demonstrate our climate leadership to the market, applying sustainability assessment to inform our new product development.
Job Segment:
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Apprentice, Engineer, Product Development, Supply, Logistics, Entry Level, Engineering, Research, Operations may also be considered for this role.
