Environmental Manager Duties & Responsibilities

The role and function of an Environmental Manager includes the following duties and responsibilities:

  • Producing educational resources
  • Liaising with regulatory bodies such as the Environment Agency.
  • Developing schemes for recycling, pollution reduction and pollution prevention
  • Managing environmental strategy budgets
  • Ensuring compliance with environmental legislation
  • Auditing, analysing and collating environmental performance data and reporting information to internal staff, clients and regulatory bodies
  • Keeping up to date with changes in environmental legislation and initiatives.
  • Liaising with internal staff including senior managers and directors
  • Managing a team of technical, scientific and engineering staff
  • Writing plans and reports
  • Providing environmental training to staff at all levels
  • Overseeing the use of all resources within organisations
  • Implementing environmental policies and practices

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of Environmental Manager duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific Environmental Manager roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.