Senior Manager, Environmental Protection

Leads the enterprise Environmental Protection capability, translating environmental obligations and enterprise HSE strategy into priorities, operating approaches, technical capability, and effective business support. The position integrates specialized environmental expertise, establishes priorities and resources, and ensures complex environmental requirements and risks are addressed consistently across organizational boundaries. The Senior Manager leads environmental professionals, influences business and HSE leaders, and resolves significant matters requiring coordination across technical, regulatory, operational, and functional perspectives. The role ensures the capability evolves with changing regulations, business needs, and enterprise HSE strategy.

• Lead the enterprise Environmental Protection capability. Establish priorities, operating approaches, and capability plans that enable effective environmental compliance, risk management, and performance.
• Provide governance for significant environmental requirements and risks. Ensure appropriate interpretation, technical criteria, escalation, and specialist support for complex or consequential matters.
• Translate regulatory and business developments into enterprise action. Assess changing requirements and implications and coordinate appropriate updates to standards, guidance, controls, and capability.
• Integrate environmental expertise across applicable media and programs. Coordinate environmental compliance, air, water and wastewater, waste, permitting, reporting, and related technical needs.
• Advise HSE Operations and business leaders on significant environmental decisions. Translate technical and regulatory issues into practical business implications, options, and recommendations
• Support environmental integration into projects and business change. Partner with Growth Enablement, Engineering, Operations, and other functions to address environmental considerations early.
• Lead and develop environmental professionals. Set expectations, coach performance, build technical depth, and strengthen consistent professional judgment.
• Use environmental performance, events, assurance findings, and external developments to identify systemic risks and improvement priorities.
• Improve environmental methods, guidance, tools, and management approaches. Convert learning and regulatory change into scalable enterprise solutions.
• Evaluate Environmental Protection capability effectiveness. Monitor whether technical support, controls, and enterprise approaches are producing sustainable compliance and performance outcomes.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, chemistry, environmental health, or a related scientific or technical discipline.
• Minimum 10 years' experience progressive environmental experience with responsibility for complex regulatory, compliance, permitting, or environmental-management matters.
• Experience leading environmental professionals, technical programs, or significant cross-functional environmental initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex environmental requirements and translate them into practical organizational approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to manage significant environmental issues across multiple stakeholders or operating environments.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree relevant to environmental management or environmental engineering.
• Professional certification such as CHMM, PE, or another relevant environmental credential.
• Experience with environmental management systems or ISO 14001.
• Experience across multiple regulatory jurisdictions.
• Experience in a complex, multi-site, regulated, manufacturing, healthcare, life-sciences, or similarly diverse organization.

Other:

• Advanced working knowledge of environmental compliance principles, environmental risk, permitting, reporting, and multi-media environmental management.
• Strong regulatory interpretation and technical judgment, including the ability to recognize when specialist or legal interpretation is required.
• Ability to integrate environmental requirements into operating controls, projects, acquisitions, and organizational change.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, coaching, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Ability to use environmental performance information, assurance findings, and emerging regulatory developments to identify systemic priorities.

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial future.

Here is a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market competitive pay
• Extensive paid time off and (9) added holidays
• Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
• Long/short term disability coverage
• 401(K) with company match
• Maternity and parental leave
• Additional add on benefits/discounts for programs such as pet insurance
• Tuition reimbursement and continued educational programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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