Environmental Compliance Manager; Cottage Grove, MN

Job Title

Environmental Compliance Manager

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3

Mers.

As an Environmental Compliance Manager
, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing environmental compliance and sustainability leadership and direction, in consultation with the leadership teams for the Cottage Grove location.
• Leading projects and teams to ensure compliance with all environmental requirements, including tracking compliance obligations, incident investigations, and closure of action plans.
• Setting short and long‑term strategic direction, site environmental priorities, and assigning resources.
• Managing site performance targets, coaching, and leading salaried and hourly employees.
• Elevating and supporting site environmental culture through an expansion of standard work, employee engagement, mentoring and coaching, ensuring effective and efficient resources (people and capital), and a pervasive, full compliance mindset.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable standards and regulations, and conformance to all 3M environmental compliance expectations.
• Willingness to be on‑call.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, science discipline, or other environmental health and safety discipline (i.e., industrial hygiene, public health, etc.) (completed and verified prior to start).
• Three (3) years of environmental or environmental, health and safety experience in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Three (3) years of experience working in a chemical manufacturing environment and understanding of environmental compliance regulations, monitoring, reporting and environmental management systems.
• One (1) year of experience in a leadership and/or supervisory role leading a team.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Five (5) or more years of experience in a leadership and/or supervisory role leading a team.
• Five (5) or more years of experience working in a chemical manufacturing environment and understanding environmental compliance regulations, monitoring, reporting, and environmental management systems.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely with all employees within the plant.
• Experience working with federal, state, and local environmental regulatory agencies, including compliance permitting, inspections, and routine regulatory interactions.
• Self‑directed, detail oriented, good prioritization and organizational skills.
• Analytical, leadership, project planning, program development and deployment skills.
• Master's degree or higher in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, science discipline, or related environmental health and safety discipline.
• Applicable EHS certification(s) (e.g., CSP, CHMM, CIH, QEP, PE).

Cottage Grove, MN

May include up to 10% domestic/international travel.

May be authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

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