Compliance Manager in Derby

Driving compliance excellence across our organics operations - join Biffa as a Compliance Manager. Location: Treatment South, a multi-site role covering Ardley IVC, Ufton IVC, Etwall IVC, Poplars AD, and Walpole AD. This is a hybrid position where you will manage your own diary, work from home when appropriate, and provide on-site support across the facilities as required. Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week.

A quick look at the role. The Compliance Manager provides division-wide governance and assurance across all Treatment South organics assets, including three In-Vessel Composting facilities and two Anaerobic Digestion plants. The role ensures every site operates safely, compliantly, and audit-ready, while strengthening long-term compliance capability through training, systems assurance, and continuous improvement.

Your core responsibilities:

• Provide division-wide regulatory compliance oversight across IVC and AD facilities, ensuring adherence to EA permits, APHA regulations, PAS100, PAS110, and environmental reporting requirements.
• Act as the central subject matter expert for regulatory interpretation, supporting inspections, audits, site visits, and the effective close-out of actions and non-conformances.
• Lead compliance governance for Fire Prevention Plans, incidents, enforcement actions, root cause analysis, and corrective action tracking.
• Own audit readiness across all sites, coordinating internal and external audits and providing independent assurance on compliance performance and risk.
• Provide oversight and assurance of compliance-critical systems, including Eco-Online, SCADA, SharePoint, document control, and sampling data, driving consistency and data integrity.
• Design and maintain compliance training frameworks and competence matrices, building leadership capability and a proactive compliance culture.
• Partner with commercial and technical teams to ensure technical standards, monitoring, and reporting processes meet regulatory expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying trends, standardising best practice, and escalating emerging compliance risks to senior management.

Our essential requirements:

• Full UK driving licence.
• Proven experience with PAS100 and PAS110 compliance, including regulatory engagement with the Environment Agency and APHA.
• Experience managing multiple waste streams and ensuring compliant processing and disposal at end of process.
• Strong working knowledge of health and safety legislation within high-risk industrial or waste environments.
• Experience liaising with external regulators and supporting audits, inspections, and compliance reviews.
• Familiarity with Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001) and the ability to interpret legislation and translate it into practical site requirements.

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa:

• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – Because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Car or allowance.
• Competitive salary.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Life cover.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.