Principal Program Manager, Corporate Environmental Compliance

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The Principal Program Manager, Corporate Environmental Compliance provides enterprise-level environmental compliance oversight, technical direction, and program governance for Great Lakes Cheese Manufacturing and Packaging facilities. This role is responsible for maintaining a consistent, risk-based environmental compliance program across the organization, and ensures that EHS, Plant and Executive leadership are informed of all environmental compliance concerns, leading indicators, potential issues, and actual compliance events.

• Provide corporate-level technical guidance and expertise for environmental compliance, permitting, environmental engineering controls, and environmental risk management across all cheese manufacturing and cheese packaging facilities.
• Provide multi-site environmental compliance oversight for all cheese manufacturing and cheese packaging facilities in the network.
• Provide site leadership guidance for the day-to-day environmental execution responsibility of local plants, including providing corporate governance, technical support, escalation, and assurance.
• Lead and maintain oversight of environmental compliance programs across the organization, including wastewater, air emissions, stormwater, spill prevention, waste management, chemical reporting, permitting, recordkeeping, and regulatory submissions.
• Maintain and guide the corporate environmental compliance governance model, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities across EHS, plant leadership, engineering, maintenance, operations, and external consultants.
• Lead and support the development of corporate responses, technical guidance, implementation plans, and standardized interpretations to drive consistent action by plants.
• Review and provide direction on environmental aspects of facility design, process changes, capital projects, equipment upgrades, wastewater treatment systems, air emission controls, utilities, refrigeration-related programs, and other operational changes to support compliance by design.
• Develop and maintain a standardized environmental data management framework for permits, sampling results, inspections, waste profiles, emissions calculations, compliance calendars, corrective actions, and key performance metrics across facilities.
• Strategically develop and implement corporate environmental policies, procedures, standards, playbooks, and best practices aligned with regulatory requirements, corporate risk tolerance, operational needs, and customer expectations.
• Develop, implement, and audit environmental compliance programs required by local, state, and federal regulations, including programs related to the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, RCRA, EPCRA/SARA, SPCC, stormwater, wastewater pretreatment, and other applicable requirements.
• Support environmental permitting, regulatory inspections, agency reporting, and agency follow-up, ensuring communications are coordinated with plant leadership, Corporate EHS leadership, and legal counsel as appropriate.
• Track, analyze, and report environmental compliance metrics, leading indicators, permit status, agency interactions, corrective action performance, and environmental risk trends to Corporate EHS and plant leadership.
• Support environmental stewardship and sustainability initiatives where they intersect with compliance, resource efficiency, waste reduction, water use, wastewater performance, emissions, customer expectations, and operational risk reduction.
• Partner with plant leadership and resources to embed environmental compliance into daily operations through training, auditing, compliance calendars, standard work, permit-condition ownership, and corrective/preventive action follow-up.
• All GLC employees are expected to produce products in a manner that exceeds the quality and value expectations of customers and consumers by adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices and the policies and procedures outlined in the Safe Quality Food Program.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Manager, Corporate Environmental Health and Safety.
• The pay for this position is $93, per year. All offers will be based on a candidate’s skills, prior relevant experience, applicable degrees and certificates, and internal equity. This range is specific to New York and may not be applicable to other locations.

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related field.
• 6 years of progressive environmental compliance or environmental management experience in manufacturing.
• Demonstrated success leading environmental compliance programs in a manufacturing environment, with strong preference for wastewater treatment, dairy, cheese, food manufacturing, or other high-strength wastewater operations.
• Ability to develop, interpret, and lead performance against environmental key performance indicators, leading…