Sr Environmental Lead

Sr Environmental Lead

Location(s):
Newark, OH, US,

Function:
Envir, Health and Safety

Audience:
Experienced Professional

Work Arrangement:
On Site

Requisition

Job Band: 5A

Hiring Manager:
Cory Samuel Carl

HR Rep:
Kristie Kay Moses

The Environmental Leader is responsible for ensuring the existence of an environmentally conscientious culture and sustaining an effective, efficient world class environmental stewardship program.

As a key member of the Plant's Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Team this individual provides guidance and coaching to drive ownership and accountability in the areas of environmental compliance and stewardship related to all plant activities. This individual is responsible to provide Environmental leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of critical processes, programs, training and procedures to achieve Plant and Corporate goals, objectives and continuous improvement.

Reports to:

Environmental Health and Safety Leader

• Guide the Plant in developing risk-ranked strategic plans, prioritize and advocate capital/resource requests, and advise the leadership team on all aspects of environmental requirements and responsibilities.
• Drive and maintain compliance with Environmental Compliance Approvals (ECA), plans and deviation reporting.
• Develop, implement, track and test environmental programs such as air and water compliance, above-ground and underground storage tanks, spill prevention and control, hazardous waste and materials management, solid waste recycling and employee training.
• Safely and cost effectively leads the ongoing internal captive landfill operations by providing daily direction to the contractor(s), ensuring all permitting and monitoring requirements are in compliance. Focus on meeting ongoing needs of Plant operations teams.
• Provides ongoing technical support to the Plant's wastewater processing systems, ensuring all permit, reporting and monitoring requirements are in full compliance.
• Develop and maintain environmental monitoring and recordkeeping to satisfy requirements of the plant's ECAs/plans.
• Knowledge of key required Environmental recordkeeping or reporting tools like OEPA's EBIZ system, CDX, SharePoint sites, Dakota Profiler, Resource Advisor, etc.
• Lead and support Environmental initiatives and processes to drive towards zero non-conformities and/or NOV's.
• Leads Plant's efforts to meet Corporate Sustainability goals, with emphasis on Energy, Water and Waste‑to‑Landfill reduction aspects.
• Manage all aspects of the plant's Hazardous waste, Solid waste, and Universal waste within Federal, Provincial, and Municipal guidelines.
• Assess product, process and operational changes to determine environmental impact.
• Implement, facilitate and drive a robust Environmental Management System.
• Provide regulatory guidance to facility leadership team and operating personnel.
• Review or change policies and procedures to comply with changes to Environmental regulations and standards.

• Work with Division resources to facilitate Corporate Sustainability reporting, GHG reporting, and other current or pending regulatory requirements.
• Interact with outside consultants on regulatory and permitting changes, ensuring ability to comply with agreed upon requirements.
• Enroll as the plant liaison on environmental issues affecting community and industrial neighbors.

• Maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, influence employee behaviors, and fully engage employees in the sound environmental process management process.
• Provide leadership required ensuring operations and, maintenance personnel are aware of and held accountable for environmental compliance.
• Enroll and engage the entire workforce to build a powerful safety culture.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of all critical Environmental processes, programs and procedures.
• Sets and accomplishes critical environmental metrics regularly to ensure continuous improvement in the processes that lead to a 100% engaged culture on the floor.
• Live the Safety Stand, adhere to the safety responsibilities.

• Federal, State and Municipal Environmental compliance with regulations and…