Sustainable Production Specialist

**About us**

Established in 2012, Pinnacle Drinks exclusively partners with winemakers, growers, brewers and distillers to deliver some of the world's leading brands across the wine, beer and spirit categories.

**About the Opportunity**

As the Sustainable Production Specialist, your role will be to support the improvement of our environmental and compliance practices within our Pinnacle Drinks operations. This includes a partnership with our 4 bottling production sites & procurement / third party sourcing teams in reducing waste & improving our packaging / raw material imprint through the value chain to customers.
The Specialist role will work closely with our operations, commercial teams & suppliers to deliver against our priority strategic initiatives in our sustainability & accreditation plans. Scope also includes supporting our production site & procurement team tracking & delivery on environmental compliance, waste minimisation, sustainable packaging progress (including APCO reporting), decarbonisation & resource efficiency.

**A day in the life of a Sustainable Production Specialist at Pinnacle Drinks**
- Sustainability strategy - as part of a sustainability & risk team of three, you will support our Pinnacle sustainability strategy delivery & ensures key priority packaging and waste circularity initiatives are communicated and understood across our teams.
- Champion our internal standards & governance framework. This includes ensuring our Pinnacle standards are communicated and embedded at our sites. The role will support the Team to review industry benchmarks & legal and corporate requirements to maintain / update our internal framework.
- Support our external standards / accreditation agenda, and work with our sites to gain & maintain agreed external accreditations that aligns with our stakeholder needs & sustainability agenda.
- Reporting & Monitoring - maintains and supports continuous improvement in internal processes & systems to obtain reliable information from our sites & suppliers to meet agreed stakeholder and mandatory reporting obligations, with a strong focus on carbon footprint and sustainable packaging.
- Regulatory Compliance - keep abreast of the changing landscape our Pinnacle businesses are operating in and maintains a positive working relationship with compliance agencies & industry groups. Supports the Team to maintain the Environmental Management System.
- Troubleshooting & incidents: undertake root cause analysis, incident resolution, and incident reporting.
- Identify and support process changes to improve environmental performance in waste and packaging.
- Expert / SME support on waste minimisation, packaging, life cycle perspective, and natural resource efficiency.
- Supplier Approval - Expert / SME support to our sites on the evaluation of new suppliers & services from a sustainability & business risk perspective. Support the procurement & site teams with current supplier monitoring & initiatives.

**What you’ll need to succeed**
- Previous sector experience in Packaging, Sustainability, Lifecycle, and/or Waste roles
- Preferred - degree in Environmental Management, Material Science, Sustainability, or equivalent field
- Experience managing competing priorities and projects across multiple sites
- Environmental performance reporting
- Sustainable Packaging - experience with collection of data for APCO / NEPM reporting, preparation of reports & action plans with suppliers, internal stakeholders & production sites
- Experience with management of audit, assurance frameworks & standards including ISO 14001:2015
- Strong transferable knowledge of Local, State and Federal legislative requirements & compliance obligations related to packaging, waste/recycling, and carbon accounting
- Experience in the development and coordination of policies and procedures
- Experience in identifying and managing sustainability grants
- Strong internal and external stakeholder management
- Sustainability strategy delivery & roll out
- Building reporting capability & maintaining environmental management systems

**How will you be rewarded?**
- Everyday Rewards Card which gives you access to exclusive employee discounts across Woolworths, BIG W and Endeavour Group brands (BWS, Dan Murphy’s, etc) as well as discounts at our ALH Venues
- Training and development - we pride ourselves in helping you realise your potential and give you the opportunity to be innovative
- An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people
- Headspace days - no meetings company wide
- Flexible working arrangements are encouraged and our norm

**Grow with Endeavour Group**

Endeavour Group comprises a diverse range of drinks and hospitality businesses including BWS, Dan Murphy’s, ALH Hotels and Pinnacle Drinks. We are focused on growing and transforming our businesses to meet the changing needs of customers and we’re driven by a culture that puts our customers and team first.

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