Safety & Environmental Project Engineer (Environmental Focus)
Chicago, IL 
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Job Description

Safety & Environmental Engineer / Project Engineer

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Manager, Environmental, this position will work in the global Health, Safety, Environmental & Sustainability (HSE&S) department. This role will closely collaborate with both sustainability and environmental teams to support the delivery of company goals while ensuring compliance with legal requirements and maintaining data integrity of all environmental performance metrics. This role is expected to refine existing sustainability & environmental programs and procedures to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

  • Demonstrate subject matter expertise, providing oversight and guidance on sustainability & environmental topics across the company, including but not limited to, air permitting regulations (CAAPP, construction permits, etc.), greenhouse gas emissions, carbon footprint, lifecycle analysis, Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan (SPCC), Hazard Communication and GHS, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), asbestos, industrial air and noise monitoring, pollution prevention, Emergency Response Planning, DOT/IATA, Hazardous Materials Shipping requirements (land, air and ocean).
  • Develop system to pro-actively identify and track all applicable environmental regulation applicable to S&C sites at the Local, State, and Federal levels, including - but not limited to - Chicago, IL, Palatine, IL, Franklin, WI, and West Palm Beach, FL.
  • Maintain, track, and report compliance status and impact on business operations for all S&C sites including - but not limited to - air, water, refrigerants, nonhazardous and hazardous waste, RCRA, and any other applicable regulations or permit requirements.
  • Establish, coordinate, and help conduct facility audits and inspections as needed to ensure operations in all S&C sites are compliant with appliable regulation and perform periodic and systematic review of audit data to identify issues, insights, trends, improvement opportunities, etc.
  • Manage all regulatory and environmental performance data and metrics, ensuring their integrity, streamlining their gathering and overall management - including automation opportunities and the development of high-level dashboards and reports -, and successfully documenting corrective actions - including their status, root cause, and resolution.
  • Support the development and management of environmental programs focused on new market trends and regulatory needs such as Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), end-of-life product management, REACH, RoHS and PFAs compliance, etc.
  • Prepare, calibrate, and use any applicable instrumentation needed to collect and analyze environmental samples and conduct other monitoring as needed to ensure compliance, executing any sampling and data collection required, such as for process water discharge permit requirements.
  • Provide complete ownership of the delivery of the company's environmental performance and compliance analytics, delivering complex information in a clear and concise way, while ensuring and certifying data integrity.
  • Enhance/refine reporting through the design of dashboards and other data visualization techniques that enhance leadership's understanding of and access to key metrics and overall environmental performance and compliance data and status.
  • Develops, automates, and maintains internal sustainability & environmental SharePoint Online sites, including KPI dashboards, survey forms, newsletters, project centers, tasks, and issue tracking systems, etc.
  • Support management of outside contractors and consultants and create system to manage compliance with S&C rules to minimize liability and ensure environmental compliance.
  • Support the development of a formal ISO 14001:2015 management system, streamlining current practices to ensure data integrity and easy access to data to form insights and successfully address corrective actions, while also conducting internal and external audits as needed.

To apply for this job, at a minimum, the following is required:

  • B.S. in Environmental Engineering/Sciences, Chemical Engineering/Chemistry, or other Life Sciences or equivalent professional tenure.
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience in an Environmental role.
  • Ability to occasionally work off hours as needed, travel weekly to other US sites near our Chicago headquarters (within 80 miles), and up to 25% travel to other S&C global locations.
  • Previous experience working with data analytics and management software and tools such as Intelex, Gensuite, Enablon, Cority, GaBi software, Sphera, Oracle, PowerBI, SharePoint Online, etc.
  • Previous experience with project management and PMP certification is a plus.
  • Incident Investigation proficiency including risk assessment and root cause analysis, countermeasure development and PDCA measures.
  • Demonstrated sustained high-level performance and ability to ensure environmental governmental compliance, insights, and best practices to guide corporate decision making and establish rapport with strong oral and written communication skills to effectively coach, teach, train, collaborate, and report to team members, experts in different areas, and Sr. Leadership throughout S&C globally.
  • Demonstrated subject matter expertise of environmental governmental regulations at the Federal, State, and Local levels to translate and anticipate business questions and needs into appropriate analytical problems, perform high-quality analysis, and turn outputs into concrete, actionable business insights.

MAJOR PHYSICAL DEMANDS

  • This job will require weekly travel by car and may require periodic travel up to 25% by air, to S&C locations to perform in-person inspections and investigations in a wide variety of factory and office environments, attend offsite seminars and training activities for continued safety and/or environmental development.
  • Activities such as standing, extensive walking, climbing stairs & ladders, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, bending, reaching, handling and may be exposed to hot/cold temperatures will occasionally be required.
  • Frequent use of computers and office equipment is required.
  • Ability to support on call and work after hours as needed.
  • Must have ability to be onsite 5 days a week.

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S&C has a proud and longstanding tradition of providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or marital status. Further, S&C is committed to taking affirmative action to ensure that qualified females, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities can pursue equal employment opportunities. For information regarding equal employment opportunity, please see http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Work Hours (i.e. shift)
First Shift
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
5+ years
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