Environmental Specialist

Description

Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career?

At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, Prsident specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Break stone’s cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow , Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We’re building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact.

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring an Environmental Specialist based in Buffalo, New York.

As an Environmental Specialist, the role will carry out responsibilities such as but not limited to coordinating and implementing the group policy at Buffalo site level. The coordinator will participate in improving the environmental approach within the site and facilitating the implementation of the ISO 14001 certification, monitoring the environmental action plan, ensuring the compliance with local laws and group standards are met, train and raise awareness among staff, perform site audits and promote best environmental practices to align duties with the company's goals and values.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Serve as an environmental resource for Lactalis employees.
• Lead environmental projects.
• Ensure the deployment of the environmental and energy policy / objectives / standards / tools.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations and requirements and be attentive to their development projects.
• Improve the site's environmental and energy documentation system.
• Ensure the implementation of the Environmental Management System (EMS) and certification ISO 14001.
• Conduct audits to ensure that the EMS is properly implemented and is effective.
• Implement the group policy on water management, wastewater losses, discharges management, chemical management, public and climate protection, waste management, soil and other pollution management.
• Perform audits, manages non-conformities, preventive, corrective actions and ensures monitoring of the progress of environmental action plans.
• Perform environment risk assessment, develop and follow up on the action plans.
• Define, monitor and communicate environmental and energy KPIs and other indicators including reporting data on the group environmental reporting system.
• Communication with the supervisory authorities and regulatory agencies.
• Develop and ensure the proper maintenance of the internal audit plan, Standard Operating Procedures, the emergency and communication plans.
• Train and Lead awareness sessions for employees.
• Review, analyzing and making recommendations on assigned topics.
• Perform Health and safety tasks as required.
• Perform department administrative tasks as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Travel may be required occasionally.

Extended hours may be necessary depending on the project needs.

To fulfill these…