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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine environment management strategy requirements
   • Ascertain enterprise's ethical, community and legal obligations relating to environmental management
   • Examine enterprise operations to identify potential environmental impacts
   • Analyse competitive and economic advantages and disadvantages of environmental management strategies
2. Develop enterprise commitment to environmental management
   • Obtain management commitment and formulate enterprise environmental management policy
   • Include agreed upon environmental management strategies in enterprise planning, operating systems and review processes
   • Develop consultative processes to resolve environmental issues and problems
   • Incorporate environmental management roles and responsibilities into job functions, position descriptions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
   • Develop and implement communication and training strategies to inform and support stakeholder commitment
3. Prepare environmental management strategy
   • Identify enterprise requirements for expert assistance and advice
   • Identify and evaluate environmental risks
   • Determine requirements of environmental management systems
   • Evaluate alternative environmental management strategies and systems for efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability, in accordance with enterprise requirements and regulatory compliance
   • Identify opportunities to minimise environmental impact and maximise commercial value of waste or waste treatment by-products
   • Calculate resource requirements and include them in enterprise planning processes
   • Develop performance criteria for environmental management
4. Implement and monitor environmental management strategies and systems
   • Negotiate licences, permits, schedules and agreements to address regulatory requirements
   • Communicate environment and waste management policies and responsibilities to stakeholders
   • Select, develop, implement and integrate environmental and waste management systems into operational systems
   • Develop monitoring, reporting and validation procedures
   • Prepare corrective action strategies and contingency plans
   • Establish verification procedures
   • Investigate causes of non-compliance and develop control measures
   • Review systems to reflect changes in technology, regulations and operational performance
5. Review environmental management policies, strategies and systems
   • Establish continuous review and improvement processes, including consultation with stakeholders
   • Assess and analyse performance information against specified criteria and standards to identify areas for improvement
   • Analyse and include conclusions and recommendations in enterprise planning and improvement processes
6. Manage community relations
   • Prepare environmental impact statements to address community, environmental and public health concerns and regulatory requirements
   • Conduct interactions with environmental authorities and agencies openly, positively and ethically
   • Identify and utilise opportunities to promote enterprise as good corporate citizen in relation to environmental management
   • Maintain, analyse and report to stakeholders details of enterprise measurement and logging of environmental impacts
   • Deal with community complaints promptly, openly and courteously
7. Determine environment management strategy requirements
   • Ascertain enterprise's ethical, community and legal obligations relating to environmental management
   • Examine enterprise operations to identify potential environmental impacts
   • Analyse competitive and economic advantages and disadvantages of environmental management strategies
8. Develop enterprise commitment to environmental management
   • Obtain management commitment and formulate enterprise environmental management policy
   • Include agreed upon environmental management strategies in enterprise planning, operating systems and review processes
   • Develop consultative processes to resolve environmental issues and problems
   • Incorporate environmental management roles and responsibilities into job functions, position descriptions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
   • Develop and implement communication and training strategies to inform and support stakeholder commitment
9. Prepare environmental management strategy
   • Identify enterprise requirements for expert assistance and advice
   • Identify and evaluate environmental risks
   • Determine requirements of environmental management systems
   • Evaluate alternative environmental management strategies and systems for efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability, in accordance with enterprise requirements and regulatory compliance
   • Identify opportunities to minimise environmental impact and maximise commercial value of waste or waste treatment by-products
   • Calculate resource requirements and include them in enterprise planning processes
   • Develop performance criteria for environmental management
10. Implement and monitor environmental management strategies and systems
    • Negotiate licences, permits, schedules and agreements to address regulatory requirements
    • Communicate environment and waste management policies and responsibilities to stakeholders
    • Select, develop, implement and integrate environmental and waste management systems into operational systems
    • Develop monitoring, reporting and validation procedures
    • Prepare corrective action strategies and contingency plans
    • Establish verification procedures
    • Investigate causes of non-compliance and develop control measures
    • Review systems to reflect changes in technology, regulations and operational performance
11. Review environmental management policies, strategies and systems
    • Establish continuous review and improvement processes, including consultation with stakeholders
    • Assess and analyse performance information against specified criteria and standards to identify areas for improvement
    • Analyse and include conclusions and recommendations in enterprise planning and improvement processes
12. Manage community relations
    • Prepare environmental impact statements to address community, environmental and public health concerns and regulatory requirements
    • Conduct interactions with environmental authorities and agencies openly, positively and ethically
    • Identify and utilise opportunities to promote enterprise as good corporate citizen in relation to environmental management
    • Maintain, analyse and report to stakeholders details of enterprise measurement and logging of environmental impacts
    • Deal with community complaints promptly, openly and courteously

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

Evidence must demonstrate the candidate's consistency of performance over time.

The candidate must:

analyse and interpret current regulatory requirements, including local, state, national and international, for environmental management, such as environmental tolerance levels, and their implications for enterprise operations

assess viability of gaining commercial value from waste, including the determination of commercial quantities, costs, returns and payback periods

apply relevant mathematical and communication skills

communicate effectively with internal and external personnel with diverse roles and cultures

comply with regulatory requirements for managing enterprise environmental impact, including negotiation of agreements, plans, permits and licences with relevant environmental management authorities, confinement of environmental impacts within permissible limits and preparation of the enterprise for external audit where specified

consult with internal/external stakeholders and independent agencies to prepare contingency plans and emergency response procedures for environmental incidents

develop individual and team capacity to achieve enterprise management policies and goals, including clear communication of individual and team responsibilities for minimising environmental impact, development of consultative processes and strategies to identify and resolve environmental issues, and identification and provision of appropriate training programs

develop procedures for responding to community complaints and concerns

evaluate and recommend environmental management systems to meet enterprise needs, including identification and audit of enterprise creation of waste and environmental impacts and evaluation of control and treatment systems, comparative costs, savings and minimisation of environmental impacts

identify and apply relevant workplace health and safety, regulatory and workplace requirements

implement enterprise environmental management systems to minimise environmental impact, including the establishment of monitoring and testing regimes and record keeping systems; development of procedures for identifying, reporting and analysing the causes of environment non-conformances and incidents; development of control measures to prevent recurrence of environmental incidents, hazardous events and non-conformances

monitor performance of the enterprise environmental management system, including the identification of performance standards based on industry best practice; collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative performance data; benchmarking; and assessment of performance against standards and recommendations for improvement

prepare and update enterprise environmental impact statements and management plans

prepare information about enterprise's environmental management strategy and progress for public release in accordance with enterprise ethical standards and regulatory requirements

prepare reports and recommendations for senior management using complex language analysis and appropriate presentation styles

present reports according to legal and enterprise requirements

use effective communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills in interactions with all stakeholders, including environmental authorities, agencies and community representatives

use information and communications technology for research and data collection, analysis and reporting

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate an in depth technical and theoretical knowledge of:

potential costs of prevention, assessment and control of environmental impact

customer and consumer, including importing country, requirements for effective environmental management and their implications for enterprise operations

enterprise requirements for expert advice, assistance and support

major air, water and solid waste environmental impacts generated by the meat industry

relevant environmental authorities, their jurisdictions, powers and the implications for enterprise operations

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