Environmental Compliance Apprentice
AVARA FOODS LTD
Hereford, Northants, Telford
Closes in 31 days (Friday 30 October 2026)
Posted on 28 September 2026
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Summary
As an Environmental & Energy Compliance Apprentice you will support the Environmental Compliance team in maintaining and improving compliance with ISO 14001, ISO 50001, MCERTS, environmental legislation, and company management system.
- Wage
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£26,436 a year
- Training course
- Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm, with some flexibility on start/finish times.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 December 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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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
Key responsibilities include:
- Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of the Environmental Management System (EMS).
- Assist in reviewing and updating environmental procedures, forms, registers, and supporting documentation.
- Help ensure compliance with ISO 14001, ISO 50001, and MCERTS requirements.
- Support the implementation of changes required by evolving environmental standards and business needs.
- Support the planning and delivery of environmental and energy audits across multiple operational sites to ensure compliance with ISO 14001 requirements.
- Assist with audit reporting, monitoring corrective actions, and helping to close out audit findings and non-conformances.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by tracking audit performance and supporting the development of effective audit programmes and plans.
- Support the collection, validation, and analysis of environmental and energy performance data.
- Assist with maintaining compliance records, developing dashboards and reports, and monitoring key environmental and energy metrics.
- Help manage energy consumption data across systems, ensuring data accuracy and investigating any discrepancies or anomalies.
- Support operational sites with environmental compliance activities, inspections, and assessments to ensure adherence to environmental standards and permit requirements.
- Assist with environmental incident investigations, follow-up actions, and promoting best environmental practices across site teams.
- Be involved in developing and delivering environmental training, toolbox talks, and awareness initiatives to promote understanding of environmental responsibilities and procedures.
- Support environmental and energy improvement projects, identifying risks and opportunities and contributing to performance reporting.
- Maintain accurate environmental records and documentation, supporting preparation for external audits and certification visits.
- Work independently and proactively as a part of a small team.This will require the ability to work cross-functionally across different departments and teams.
- Travel across key sites so must hold a full UK driving licence.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Grandstand Road, Hereford, HR4 9PB
- Buckingham Road, Brackley, Northants, NN13 7DN
- Hortonwood 60, Telford, TF1 7GL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
Training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
- Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
- Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
- Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
- Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
- Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
- Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
- Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
- Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
- Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
- Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
- Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
- Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
- Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
- Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
- Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
- Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
- Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
- Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
- Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
- Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
- Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
- Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
Training schedule
The successful applicant will complete a Level 4 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability apprenticeship.
To meet the requirements of the programme apprentices, need to spend 6 hours a week undertaking off-the-job learning, which will include:
- Formal training, including online learning and learning events
- 1-2-1s with your apprenticeship coach and line manager
- Observing and shadowing colleagues
- Writing up learning reflections for your portfolio
To successfully complete the qualification, apprentices need to complete an End Point Assessment.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE 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
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Full UK Driving Licence
Other requirements
Applicant may be required to travel to other sites within the organisation.
About this employer
Avara Foods is one of the UK’s largest food businesses, supplying chicken and turkey to the nation’s most popular supermarkets and restaurants. We are a fully integrated business controlling the whole product supply chain, which include feed mills, farms, hatcheries and factories with associated transport and logistics functions that employ more than 6000 people. This is achieved by investing in people, utilising the latest technology and being uncompromising in our commitment to high quality and food standards.
http://www.avarafoods.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
31 days holiday allowance 3% pension Various lifestyle benefits, cashback perks, exclusive shopping discounts and discounted cinema tickets. Wellbeing resources, free online health advice & support, and wellbeing assessments.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
The right candidate may move into full-time employment with Avara Foods and opportunities for further development in line with their future career aspirations.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055787.
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Closes in 31 days (Friday 30 October 2026)
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