Environmental Business Partner

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.

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

• 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…