CHARTERED Institution of Mechanical

Engineers

ENVIRONMENTALIST
1 Birdcage Walk
Westminster
London SW1H 9JJ

APPLICATION For submissions or

support:
Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7304 6999
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.imeche.org

Application for Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv)

through the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
(IMechE)

About this form This form has seven sections

Use this form if you want to apply for Chartered You must complete all sections before you submit your
Environmentalist through the IMechE. application:
Before you begin this process you should be confident 1. About you
that you meet the current requirements.
2. Career history

Eligibility 3. Organisation chart

In order to become a CEnv through the IMechE, you 4. Personal CEnv competence statements
must be a full Member of the Institution and be a 5. Development action plan
Chartered Engineer; or an Incorporated Engineer
6. Sponsors
who holds a relevant (sustainability/environmental)
Masters level qualification. You must demonstrate 7. Declaration
Masters level knowledge and understanding, as well
as demonstrate sufficient relevant and responsible Using this form
practical experience.
• Please type using a black font
You must also demonstrate underpinning
environmental knowledge and an ability to apply • Please fill in all applicable fields in this form
this in practice and must have a direct and distinct
environment focus and/or context. Full requirements Support text is shown alongside questions at
can be found in the guidance notes for this form. the point of need. Further guidance can be found
in the guidance notes for this application, which
should be read before beginning your application.
The application process
Once you have completed all sections of this form,
please return it by email to [email protected]
Note that applications received by post may take
longer to process.
Once we have processed your application we will let
you know whether you have progressed to the interview
stage, and when this will take place.

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Section 1: About you
Part A: Personal and employment details

Personal details Employment details

Title Job title
Mr Mrs Miss Ms Other:
First name
Date appointed to company
D D MM Y Y Y Y
Surname
Name of employing organisation

Date of birth
D D MM Y Y Y Y Department

Membership number (if applicable)

Work address

Home address

Country
Post code
Country
Post code Work email

Personal email
Work phone

Home phone Mobile phone

Preferred address for correspondence:
■
Home Work

Part B: Your education

Undergraduate Postgraduate (if applicable)

University name University name

Campus Name/Country Campus Name/Country

Degree designation (eg BEng/MEng) Degree designation (eg MSc, PhD)

Full title of degree (eg Mechanical Engineering) Full title of degree (eg Aerospace Engineering)

Course type (eg full-time, part-time, sandwich) Course type (eg full-time, part-time, sandwich)

Degree classification (eg 2.2 Hons) Degree classification (eg Pass, Distinction)

Date of admission Date of graduation Date of admission Date of graduation

D D MM Y Y Y Y D D MM Y Y Y Y D D MM Y Y Y Y D D MM Y Y Y Y

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 Part B: Your education (continued)

Additional Information
Please give details of any other relevant qualifications related to sustainability and environmental issues.

Part C: Your industry classification

Please tick up to three fields that best describe your current area of engineering activities.
This information is used solely to process your application.

Aerospace Environmental Mgt. Systems Mining & Quarrying Shipping/General Insurance

Army Gas Industry National Health Service Steel Production/Drilling

Government Inspectors
Automobile Industry Nuclear Engineering Telecommunications
and Engineers
Oil Industry and Offshore
Bio-Medical Health and Safety Officers Water Industry
Engineering
Building Services Higher Education Power/Non-Nuclear Other (please specify):

Computers and IT Machine Tools Process Industries

Consulting Engineers Maintenance Engineering Railway Engineering

Control and Instrumentation Management Consultants Royal Navy

Defence Industry Systems Manufacturing Industries Royal Air Force

Part D: Staying in touch

We would like to keep you informed of relevant services that may be of benefit to you.
Please tick the boxes below to let us know what you’d like to hear about:

News and updates from the IMechE Your personal data is stored on our membership database and treated with the
highest confidentiality in line with current data protection legislation.
Events and training opportunities
For more information visit
Services and offers from our preferred partners www.imeche.org/privacy-policy/imeche-privacy-policy

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Section 2: Career history
Part A: Summary of your work based practical experience

Please provide a report of no more than 600 words which demonstrates your work based practical experience
in relation to a direct and distinct environmental focus and/or context. This should concentrate on the past
4 years/3 roles, but if you have other relevant experience relating to sustainability and environmental issues
please include this in your report.

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 Part B: Description of current role and organisation

Please provide a description of your current role, the organisation and its objectives.

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 Part C: Your previous roles

Include a brief summary of your career history in reverse chronological order; give a brief description of each role
held since election as MIMechE and the dates the positions were held.

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Section 3: Your organisation chart
We need to see an organisation chart of your current employment which clearly shows your position within the
organisation, any direct reports that you have, specifically mentioning if any of your direct reports are registered
engineers. You should put a ring around your position to highlight it. Please ensure that it is A4 and legible in black
and white.
The purpose of the organisation chart is to help us understand the size and type of organisation for which you
work, and where your own personal accountability lies.
If you are not part of an organisation, please fill out the fields below.

For applicants who are not part of an organisation

Please describe your direct clients. Please describe who you report to (e.g. Board, CEO,
MD, Head of Engineering).

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Section 4: Personal CEnv competence statements
What do we mean by competence?
Professional standards describe the skills, knowledge and behaviours that characterise excellent practice
and support professional growth. It’s about more than just being able to perform a specific task; it’s being
able to do it correctly, safely, effectively and consistently. These competence requirements are those
specified by the Society for the Environment (SocEnv).

What characteristics are we looking for?

Chartered Environmentalists are characterised by their ability to demonstrate they have a high level
of environmental knowledge, understanding and skills to protect and enhance the environment in
a sustainable way.
The relevant work based practice may comprise paid employment, voluntary activity, academic work
placements or research, (but may not comprise pure academic study). CEnv through the IMechE
recognises the level of professional practice among people operating within the different environmental
disciplines and knowledge bases found within the domain of mechanical engineering.

How to complete this section

Please ensure that each of the four parts is no more than 500 words – which is a total of approximately
2,000 for the whole section.
All sub competences MUST be addressed for the overall competence to be complete, i.e. A1, A2 and
A3 for competence A.

Competence title
Competence objective

Sub-competences
This is the framework
you need to demonstrate
how you’ve met the CEnv
competence objectives. You
need to address every sub
competence (i.e. A1, A2 and
A3), and the guidance notes
examples should help to
focus your answers.
The sub-competences are
based on the requirements
specified by SocEnv. Full
examples of the various
abilities you should normally
demonstrate are listed in the
guidance notes.

EXAMPLE
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 A: Application of Knowledge
Application of knowledge and understanding of the environment to further
the aims of sustainability

You should reference your ability to:

A1: Understand the sustainability principles applicable to the
management of the environment.
• Critically analyse complex environmental information, concepts and theories to determine sustainable
courses of action.
• Understand the environmental impact of the area of study or work.
• Understand the importance of natural cycles and biodiversity in sustainability and identify strategies for
their maintenance and enhancement.

A2: Apply environmental knowledge and principles in pursuit of

sustainable environmental management in professional practice.
• Develop strategies to address complex situations that involve many interacting environmental factors.
• Determine measures to deliver continuous improvement in sustainable environmental management.
• Negotiate contracts and arrangements with relevant stakeholders.

A3: Identify, analyse, and anticipate the impact of problems and

environmental trends to develop practical sustainable solutions.
•  Identify and assess the impact of complex problems working sometimes with incomplete data.
•  Demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and addressing problems.
•  Demonstrate a critical awareness of current environmental matters and trends and trends reflecting
relevant heritage where appropriate and anticipate and assess future impacts.
•  Critically analyse and embrace new environmental information and advance knowledge, skills, and
competence in the environmental field to develop practical sustainable solutions.

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 A: Application of Knowledge
Application of knowledge and understanding of the environment to further
the aims of sustainability

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 B: Leadership
Leading Sustainable Management of the Environment

You should reference your ability to:

B1: Promote behavioural and cultural change by influencing
others to secure environmental improvements that go beyond
statutory requirements.
• Develop good practices that go beyond statutory requirements by learning from results.
• Lead, advise and support others to improve their understanding of the wider environmental context.
• Advocate sustainable management of the environment by identifying issues, potential risks, benefits and
opportunities and influence others, in particular from other disciplines, to contribute to environmental
protection and improvement.

B2: Develop and maintain a strategic approach.

• Develop innovative strategies for sustainable development and environmental improvement.
• Promote inclusion and diversity and engage and collaborate with others to promote inter-disciplinary
approaches to environmental challenges.
• Evaluate constraints and exploit opportunities for the development and transfer of environmentally
appropriate techniques, skills, methods, processes, and behaviours.
• Identify and manage risks to the environment encompassing health and safety, technologies, business,
and reputation.

B3: Demonstrate leadership and management skills.

• Exercise autonomy and judgement across environmental and sustainability issues.
• Motivate and influence others to agree and deliver environmental objectives.
• Identify individual needs, plan for their development, assess individual performance and
provide feedback.
• Reflect on outcomes, identify and pursue improvements on previous practice.

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 B: Leadership
Leading Sustainable Management of the Environment

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 C: Effective Communication
Effective Communication and Interpersonal Skills

You should reference your ability to:

C1: Communicate the environmental case, confidently, clearly,
autonomously and competently.
• Deliver presentations to a diverse range of audiences.
• Chair, lead and contribute to debates, meetings and discussions.
• Lead and promote stakeholder engagement.

C2: Liaise with, negotiate with, handle conflict and advise others, in
individual and/or group environments (either as a leader or member).
• Build relationships to capture and incorporate the opinions and contributions of others.
• Understand the motives and attitudes of others to reach agreement.
• Lead decision-making and champion group decisions.
• Resolve conflict to achieve common goals within groups, and tasks.

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 C: Effective Communication
Effective Communication and Interpersonal Skills

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 D: Personal Commitment
Personal Professional Standards, Recognising Obligations to Society,
the Profession and the Environment

You should reference your ability to:

D1: Plan, undertake and evaluate CPD activities to maintain and
enhance competence in area of practice.
• Plan, undertake, reflect on and evaluate CPD activities.

D2: Assess and resolve environmental ethical issues.

• Identify, assess, resolve, and encourage others to resolve, environmental ethical issues.
• Improve environmental practice by addressing complex ethical issues.

D3: Understand, demonstrate and advocate compliance with

relevant codes of conduct and practice.
• Understand, comply, and advocate compliance with relevant codes of conduct and practice.

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 D: Personal Commitment
Personal Professional Standards, Recognising Obligations to Society,
the Profession and the Environment

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Section 5: Development action plan
Your development as an engineer will never stop; as a registered engineer and a member of IMechE you must
make a commitment to keep up to date with the profession. This section lets us know what you plan to do over
the next few years.
Your responses should tell us where you are now, where you want to be, and how you plan to get there.
Some things you might want to consider include:
• Work-based learning • Visiting schools to promote engineering
• Distance learning • Seminar/conference presentations
• Special work projects • Any relevant course
• Writing technical papers • Private study
• Mentoring • Keep your goals short and concise. Each answer
• Voluntary work should be no longer than 50 words – that’s 150
• IMechE activity or committee work in total.

Short term goals: 6-12 months

Medium term goals: 12-24 months

Long term goals: 2-5 years

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Section 6: Sponsors
Applications for CEnv registration should be endorsed by two supporters, mentors or supervisors, ideally one
would be a Chartered Environmentalist or a Chartered Engineer.

I understand that, by acting as sponsor, I will be supporting this applicant and confirm the authenticity of the
application and that it fairly represents the applicant’s ability and achievements.

First sponsor Second sponsor

Title Title
Mr Mrs Miss Ms Other: Mr Mrs Miss Ms Other:
First name First name

Surname Surname

Date of birth Date of birth

D D MM Y Y Y Y D D MM Y Y Y Y
IMechE Membership number / EngC number / CEnv IMechE Membership number / EngC number / CEnv
number (if applicable) number (if applicable)

Address Address

Country Country
Post code Post code

Class and Institution (eg CEng MIMechE, if applicable) Class and Institution (eg CEng MIMechE, if applicable)

Email Email

Signature Signature

■ Mentor ■ Mentor
Supervisor Supervisor

Date Date
D D MM Y Y Y Y D D MM Y Y Y Y

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Section 7: Your declaration
This is your declaration, please ensure that you read it carefully before you sign below.

I, the undersigned, certify that the information provided here is true and do hereby agree that, in the event of
my election, I will be governed by the Royal Charter and Code of Professional Conduct of the Society for the
Environment (SocEnv). This is an extension to my commitment to the IMechE.
An application for registration with SocEnv (through IMechE) includes:
1. the obligation to pay the additional annual subscription for SocEnv as prescribed by their By-laws. If at any
time I desire to withdraw from the IMechE and SocEnv, I will, forthwith, pay all arrears of subscriptions or other
payments due from me.
2. the obligation to abide by the SocEnv Code of Professional Conduct.
3. the requirement to carry out and record Continuing Professional Development (CPD) necessary to maintain
and enhance competence in my areas of practise, including the development of a Personal Development Plan.
In order to satisfy the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), I authorise the
IMechE to exchange the information I have provided here with their volunteer community of professional
engineers for the purposes of reviewing and assessing my eligibility for membership and registration against the
published criteria.
Please also refer to the IMechE privacy policy for an explanation of how we use your personal data
www.imeche.org/privacy-policy/imeche-privacy-policy

Signature Date
D D MM Y Y Y Y

Application Checklist
Have you included?

Your degree evidence

 Diploma Supplement or translated evidence of the award of any international degrees

 Your organisation chart

Please see our website for further details on all our current fees at www.imeche.org/fees
Once we have received your application form, we will contact you about the payment of your application fee.

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