Environmental Manager

Business Area Description

At Fortum we drive change where it matters. We are a European energy company providing our customers with electricity, gas, heating and cooling as well as smart solutions to improve resource efficiency. Together with our subsidiary Uniper, we are the third largest producer of CO2-free electricity in Europe. With around 20,000 professionals and activities in more than 40 countries, we have the competence and resources to grow and to drive the energy transition forward. We strive to make an impact through a culture of open leadership, curiosity and continuous improvement. Do you want to take an active role for a cleaner world? Come lead the change with us! www.fortum.com

City Solutions division is responsible for developing sustainable city solutions into a growing business for Fortum. The division comprises heating and cooling, waste-to-energy, recycling and expertise sales.

Fortum Recycling&Waste provides recycling and material efficiency services, environmental management and hazardous waste treatment in the Nordics. www.fortum.com/fortum-recycling-waste

Your role

You will be working as Environmental Manager at Fortum Recycling & Waste business area in Finland. Environmental team is part of Waste Management Services Finland. You and your team's role is to ensure environmentally sustainable performance by planning needed activities for local legal compliance, coordinating and leading the environmental aspect assessment and supervising the permitting and EIA processes. You’ll support mitigating actions and trainings in environment related areas to ensure high level environmental performance and protection of our business.

As a key person at Recycling & Waste with major contribution to our Environmental issues you will be working in close co-operation with our EHQS specialists. In addition to R&W operations you’ll co-operate closely with environmental authorities, social communities within the area of influence and manage cross function co-operations in matrix organization with multiple geographic operational sites.

We offer you

This is the start of your meaningful career journey at Fortum. We actively encourage job rotation and development activities across the company with open leadership as our guiding principle. We offer you an interesting and challenging key role right at our business core, supporting the ambitious growth targets in Fortum Recycling & Waste business area and our way to cleaner world. At interaction with multiple stakeholders you’ll have a great overview position enabling to further develop your skills and be part of a dynamically changing market environment.

You will be surrounded by experienced, development-oriented and supporting teams enabling us to achieve the targets.

Your qualifications

In order to be successful in this position, we expect you to have:

• Profound knowledge of Finnish and EU environmental legislation and enforcement
• Experience in environmental permit processes and working with authorities. Solid understanding of environmental impact assessment procedures
• Excellent communication and co-operational skills, experience in working with authorities and creating written documents
• MSc degree in relevant field
• Experience and knowledge regarding environmental and waste handling issues
• Good organizational skills and ability to handle several tasks simultaneously
• Ability to communicate fluently in Finnish and English

Interested?

Send your application via our online recruitment system by 27.6.2021 at the latest. For more information please contact Shared Service Manager, Kaisa Ringman, by phone +358 50 599 9949

To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and health examination including drug testing.