Accountabilities
The jobholder is responsible for monitoring sustainability-related regulations and trends, ensuring necessary internal escalation of potential regulatory compliance impacts with operational teams/sites in China. The role also supports the identification of risks and opportunities, contributes to the effective implementation of Airbus sustainability roadmaps, facilitates the formulation and development of the corporate Environmental Management System, and promotes sustainability awareness within Airbus and beyond.
Mainactivities
1. Regulatory Intelligence and Service
? Monitor sustainability-related regulations in China; prepare monthly regulatory newsletter; anticipate emerging regulation trends; identify related risks/opportunities for decision making on Airbus products, services and activities
? Provide in-depth regulatory analysis fitting local business context and priorities
? Monitor developments in foreign regulations(e.g., EU) and evaluate their potential impacts on Chinese stakeholders
2. Sustainability Roadmaps
? Contribute to the reduction of Airbus industrial environmental footprints including CO2, energy, water, waste and VOC (constituting five integral elements of Airbus High5+ Programme) by participating in monthly monitoring meetings, documenting meeting minutes and/or action trackers, maintaining High5+ database and preparing monthly High5+ reports
? Support the communication and interpretation of methodologies, guidance, and recommendations from central Multi-Functional Teams (MFT) to local Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Facility Management (FM) teams; support local sites in identifying deficiencies and developing solutions
? Conduct reviews and provide inputs to Environmental Substance Roadmap projects to enhance the management of chemical substances
? Provide support for other roadmaps as needed
3. Environment Management System (EMS)
? Contribute to the formulation and development of EMS at national level; ensure its effective implementation through the establishment of requisite documentation; support the integration of sustainability-related policies, principles, and regulatory requirements into the Airbus overall management system
? Support the annual audit plan, internal and certification audits, findings follow up and actions closure for scope beyond operational environment
4. Sustainability awareness promotion
? Support the animation of Functional & Divisional Sustainability Representative Network and Sustainability Ambassador Network; organise local Climate Fresk Workshops
? Support community impact initiatives,sustainability market places and other employee engagement activities
5. Process optimisation and administrative support
? Facilitate weekly team meeting, prepare meeting notes and update action list
? Provide administrative support to streamline daily business operations
? Conduct relevant desktop research and translation tasks as required to support team objectives
Qualifications
? Education: Bachelor degree or higher in environmental science or a related scientific field, or in law, politics, business administration, English literature with a sustainability focus; postgraduate is preferred
? Experience: 3~5 year work experience, ideally in sustainability, corporate social responsibility, environmental management, or a related field.
? Basic Skills: Fluent in spoken and written English; fluent in Microsoft office and project management tools etc.
? Preferred Skills: good knowledge of environmental protection related laws and regulations, climate change causes and effects, sustainability disclosure, carbon trading, renewable energy, waste management, etc.; comprehensive knowledge of key Chinese government stakeholders involved in climate change,environmental protection, and energy transition matters.
Ability
? Live and embrace Airbus values
? Team-player, ready to undertake diversified roles if tactically necessary
? Ability to think/analyse structurally and to learn continuously
? Coachable, observable and measurable skills and competencies critical to the successful performance of the job
? Effective communication skills, with the ability to work with enthusiasm and flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly changing and collaborative environment