Environmental Manager

The Environmental Manager leads, coordinates, and manages the implementation of environmental programs at the site ensuring compliance with applicable federal and state environmental regulations. The Environmental Manager reports directly to the Huntsman Americas EHS Director and is a member of the Rubicon Senior Leadership Team. The Environmental Manager is the primary site contact with environmental regulatory agencies for resolution of compliance related inquiries. The Environmental Manager promotes a sitewide culture that continuous environmental compliance protects the site’s license to operate.

Responsibilities:

The Environmental Manager is responsible for implementing programs and actions to continuously improve environmental compliance and performance:

• Develop methodology to implement key corporate and site objectives.
• Proactively communicate environmental priorities to corporate and site leadership teams by remaining knowledgeable of ever-changing regulatory developments, regulations, and legislation to make appropriate recommendations.
• Effectively advocate for the resolution of environmental compliance concerns with various regulatory agencies. Close coordination with the Corporate EHS Legal team is an essential element of the process.
• Encourage / emphasize sustainability and continuous improvement to the site and business partners. Championing environmental conscientious actions among site personnel and promoting the importance of environmental compliance in everyday plant operations.
• Coach and mentor Environmental Team ensuring a focus on environmental compliance by alignment with key corporate and site objectives and maintaining relationships with site teams (including Operations, Technical, Personal / Process Safety, Capex, etc.) and external teams (corporate EHS and regulatory agency contacts).
• Perform management review of all required environmental compliance reports and communications to regulatory agencies in a timely and accurate manner. The management review is critical as it precedes responsible official certification.
• Investigate compliance deviations which exceed allowable permitted levels. Document required follow-up reports to regulatory agencies explaining occurrences and steps taken to mitigate the problem. Facilitate implementation of procedures / projects to preclude recurrence.
• Propose and manage the environmental budget focusing on environmental compliance requirements with consideration for continuous improvement.
• Limited travel should be anticipated.

Experience:

• Position requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or STEM degree with related technical and regulatory experience in the chemical manufacturing industry.
• Minimum of 10 years of environmental compliance related experience.
• Supervision of a team to implement formal improvement plans within limited timeframes.
• Communicating effectively (verbal and written skills) with all levels of a corporation, regulatory agencies, community representatives, and other stakeholders.