Environmental Compliance Manager; Cottage Grove, MN

Position: Environmental Compliance Manager (Cottage Grove, MN)*
Job Description:

Job Title Environmental Compliance Manager Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers Around the World 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 that 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.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role 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 to site performance targets, coach, and lead salaried and hourly employees.

Elevate and support site environmental culture through an expansion of standard work, employee engagement, mentoring and coaching, assuring 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.

Your Skills and Expertise  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 (i.e. industrial hygiene, public health, etc.)Applicable EHS certification(s) (e.g., CSP, CHMM, CIH, QEP, PE)

Work location:

​This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least…