Environmental Specialist

About ProAmpac

ProAmpac is a global leader in flexible packaging, known for its broad product range, customer-focused service, and innovation. The company works with brand owners, packaging specialists, suppliers, and internal teams to develop new ideas, advance technology, speed up time-to-market, and improve customisation and consumer differentiation. Its work is shaped by five core values: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement, and Impact.

Role overview

The Environmental Specialist will help deliver the organisation’s Environmental Excellence programme and support compliance with all applicable government environmental requirements. The role plays a key part in building effective systems, maintaining records, and ensuring site activities align with regulatory obligations.

Key responsibilities

• Create and maintain environmental policies, procedures, and supporting documentation such as written programmes, inspection logs, monitoring records, reports, and test results.
• Work closely with the wider EHS team to support environmental, health, and safety activities whenever needed.
• Track changes in local environmental laws, interpret what they require, and update internal processes and programmes accordingly.
• Help deliver environmental training to employees across all levels so they understand and follow relevant regulations across the facilities.
• Carry out and record routine environmental audits and inspections to confirm continued compliance with permits, regulations, and other requirements.
• Coordinate site visits with internal and external regulatory authorities and prepare annual local EPA submissions covering areas such as air, waste, and water.
• Support compliance with the IPC Licence by completing environmental tasks such as VOC abatement monitoring and reporting, storm water sampling and monitoring, waste stream oversight for hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and preparation of EPA reports such as AER, SMP, and EPR, including data collation.
• Contribute to site environmental programmes focused on cost reduction, accident prevention, safety behaviour audits, and risk assessments.
• Assist with safe handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials in line with safety procedures and EPA environmental standards.
• Support the implementation of environmental, energy, and sustainability goals and targets with the ProAmpac team.
• Promote continual improvement in environmental performance by reviewing current practices, identifying improvement opportunities, and helping shape a site environmental improvement plan with site managers.
• Handle all information with strict confidentiality and treat proprietary data with appropriate care and control.
• Keep environmental information updated in the EDEN portal as required.
• Complete other reasonable duties assigned to support the role.

Skills and qualifications

• A qualification in Environmental Studies.
• At least 2 years of experience in a manufacturing setting is preferred.
• Experience dealing with the HSA, EPA, and other bodies such as County Council and Inland Fisheries Ireland.
• Ability to understand and apply regulatory standards.
• Strong working knowledge of the MS Office suite.
• Good teamwork skills and the ability to work effectively with employees, environmental teams, and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Problem-solving ability with a practical, innovative approach to improvement.
• Strong attention to detail, good record management, and leadership skills focused on delivering results.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Additional information

This is a full-time, onsite position based in Donegal, County Donegal, Ireland. No salary, vacancy count, start date, or application deadline was stated.