Environmental & Operational Excellence Specialist

Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Founded in 2007, the company provides an end-to-end solution that leverages data to prevent waste, facilitates edible food recovery to provide to people in need, and transforms unsold food products into renewable energy to power communities. Through this integrated approach to reducing wasted food
- Prevent, Provide, Power
- Divert works with customers across the U.S. to reduce wasted food and positively impact people and the environment.

Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Founded in 2007, the company provides an end-to-end solution that leverages data to prevent waste, facilitates edible food recovery to provide to people in need, and transforms unsold food products into renewable energy to power communities. Through this integrated approach to reducing wasted food
- Prevent, Provide, Power
- Divert works with customers across the U.S. to reduce wasted food and positively impact people and the environment.

Provides operational environmental compliance and operational excellence support through regulatory reporting, facility auditing, data and document management, and routine compliance program administration for Divert’s West Coast facilities. This role includes regular on-site visits to the plants for hands-on implementation of site-specific environmental procedures, operational excellence auditing including quality and productivity, and to raise overall environmental focus / operational excellence culture. This role will be leveraged to other facilities as the company continues to grow, in order to build out the environmental procedures and culture at new or acquired facilities.

This is a remote position with travel. The person in this role will be required to live on the west coast (AZ, NV, , OR, WA, CA); preferred locations are close to the Divert Longview or Turlock sites.

up to 50% annually

• Regulatory Compliance & Reporting:
  Manage environmental reporting, permit tracking, agency correspondence, and compliance documentation to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Compliance Monitoring & Verification:
  Conduct inspections, audits, sampling coordination, and data review to verify facility compliance, operational excellence standard conformance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Environmental Program Administration:
  Maintain environmental records, procedures, inventories, databases, and training support systems that sustain day-to-day compliance operations.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential functions for this position and meet the physical requirements needed to perform them, including but not limited to frequently sitting, walking, climbing stairs and ladders, sitting; hear or talk: use close vision; use hands to grasp, handle or feel objects; and type and manipulate controls. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities.

While performing the essential functions of this job, the associate:

• Must be able to bend, stand, walk, sit, kneel, climb stairs/ladders frequently
• Is comfortable with repetitive tasks throughout their shift
• Can handle potential changes in temperature on site, humidity and wetness in working areas

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Occupational Science or related preferred
• At least 5 years' experience working in an industrial or manufacturing environment required
• Familiar with solid waste,…