Environmental Practitioner apprentice - Pfizer
Cogent Ssc Limited
Kent (CT13 9ND)
Closes on Monday 16 February 2026
Posted on 26 November 2025
Contents
Summary
As an Environment Apprentice, you will focus your efforts in promoting our internal environmental programmes and initiatives. You will gain knowledge of a wide range of environmental topics and activities, to support delivery of our environment and sustainability strategy to achieve Net Zero by 2040.
- Wage
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£20,500 a year
- Training course
- Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, 9.00am - 5.25pm. Fridays, 9.00am - 4.05pm.
12.00pm - 12.45pm lunch break.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
We are looking for a candidate who will help us change behaviours and further improve our culture to one where working sustainably and thinking about the environmental impact of our activities becomes second nature to everyone working at Pfizer.
Job Responsibilities
Main duties include:
- Working within the UK environmental, health and safety management system, in particular with a view to preparing Pfizer for compliance with ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 (ISO – international organization for standardisation).
- Assisting the UK environmental, health and safety governance structure, through attendance at Risk Committee meetings, conveying key information and documenting outcomes.
- Participating in the UK Environment and Sustainability Focus Group, with active involvement in delivery of the UK Communication & Engagement strategy.
- Partner with peers to manage Sustainability Teams to support the fostering of ideas to enhance our environmental culture
Participating in the GWE Sustainability and Wellbeing – Commercial Facilities Workstream, ensuring progression to Net Zero across GWE. - Involvement in and development of skills to enabling leading of improvement projects in environmental management.
- Providing hands-on practical advice, guidance and support to the business across a range of topics, such as Pfizer’s energy efficiency programmes, waste management, risk assessment, incident investigation.
- Partnering with our Integrated Facilities Management Teams to ensure efficiencies with regards to data reporting and Net Zero progression.
- Maintenance of environmental, health and safety repositories.
- Data enquiry and review, including preparation of performance reports for site leaders and legislators to satisfy legislative requirements and identify trends and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Assistance with environmental, health and safety auditing, inspection and monitoring programmes.
- Compiling promotional communications for topical environmental, health and safety items, for example supporting advance of our environment and sustainability strategy.
- Participating in the Pfizer environmental, health and safety culture programme.
- Involvement in and where appropriate opportunity to lead improvement projects in partnership with the My Green Lab community.
Where you'll work
Discovery Park
Ramsgate Road
Sandwich
Kent
CT13 9ND
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
Training course
Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
- Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
- Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
- Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
- Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
- Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
- Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
- Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
- Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
- Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
- Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
- Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
- Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
- Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
Training schedule
Training will be completed through day release to Kingston University.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
Company benefits
Holiday Allowance - 25.5 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 3% Flexible Working Hours Casual Dress Discount Scheme Employee Assistance Programme Onsite Canteen Onsite Parking Employee Recognition/Awards
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002658.
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Closes on Monday 16 February 2026
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