Sustainability ESG Specialist

Company Overview

Ten Cate is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and installation of high-performance synthetic turf systems and sports surfacing solutions. With a strong portfolio of brands and operating companies across North America, Ten Cate partners with schools, municipalities, universities, professional organizations, and private facilities to deliver innovative, durable, and performance-driven sports construction solutions.

Sustainability & ESG Specialist

Ten Cate

Location:

Dalton, GA / Hybrid

Company Overview

Ten Cate is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and installation of high-performance synthetic turf systems and sports surfacing solutions. With a strong portfolio of brands and operating companies across North America, Ten Cate partners with schools, municipalities, universities, professional organizations, and private facilities to deliver innovative, durable, and performance-driven sports construction solutions.
We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Sustainability & ESG Specialist to support environmental sustainability, data management, reporting, and compliance efforts across Ten Cate's U.S. operations.
This role is ideal for a recent graduate or early-career environmental professional who is comfortable working with data, coordinating across multiple sites, and developing expertise in carbon accounting, lifecycle assessments, environmental management systems, and emerging sustainability requirements.

Position Summary

The Sustainability & ESG Specialist will collect, validate, analyze, and report environmental data across Ten Cate's U.S. operations. The role will serve as the U.S. super user for Watershed, support waste and emissions-reduction initiatives, coordinate lifecycle assessment activities, and assist with environmental and ESG reporting.

The position will work closely with U.S. site and business leaders as well as Ten Cate's global sustainability teams in the Netherlands. As experience grows, the Specialist will take on greater responsibility for lifecycle assessments, carbon-reduction initiatives, regulatory research, and related sustainability programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary U.S. super user and day-to-day coordinator for Watershed, including data collection, validation, user support, issue resolution, and reporting
• Collect, organize, review, and analyze sustainability data from U.S. sites and business units, including energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, recycling, water, materials, and other environmental indicators
• Help establish consistent data definitions, documentation, controls, and reporting processes so sustainability information is accurate, complete, traceable, and prepared for internal or external review
• Support development and implementation of short- and long-term sustainability plans focused on reducing emissions, waste, energy use, and resource consumption
• Coordinate U.S. zero-waste-to-landfill projects, reporting, and verification activities in partnership with site leaders, Operations, EHS, Quality, and external providers
• Identify trends, data gaps, environmental hotspots, and improvement opportunities and translate findings into practical recommendations
• Support energy-efficiency projects and emissions-reduction plans by tracking baselines, targets, project progress, estimated savings, and performance results
• Coordinate lifecycle assessment activities, including data collection, use of Helix or related tools, analysis of product and process impacts, and identification of improvement opportunities
• Assist with sustainability and ESG disclosures using applicable company requirements and recognized reporting frameworks, which may include GRI, SASB/ISSB, customer questionnaires, and regulatory reporting requirements
• Research and monitor relevant environmental, climate, product, and sustainability-related laws, regulations, standards, and customer requirements; summarize potential business impacts for leadership
• Support environmental compliance reviews, internal audits, documentation requests, due-diligence activities, and corrective-action tracking
• Coordinate with site teams on implementation and continuous improvement of applicable ISO management systems, particularly environmental requirements, and support alignment across Quality, Environmental, and Safety programs as assigned
• Partner with Ten Cate's global sustainability team and other stakeholders to support group sustainability initiatives, stakeholder-engagement projects, and due-diligence procedures
• Create dashboards, reports, presentations, training materials, and communications that make sustainability data and expectations understandable to employees and leadership
• Help evaluate proposed sustainability projects by reviewing environmental benefits, technical feasibility, cost, expected savings, implementation requirements, and return on investment
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Manufacturing, EHS, Quality, Finance, Procurement, IT, Legal, Commercial teams,…