Environmental Compliance Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead environmental compliance programs across Americas manufacturing sites, ensuring compliance with applicable environmental regulations, permits, corporate standards, and management system requirements.
• Monitor regulatory developments and provide technical guidance to site leadership on environmental compliance risks, emerging requirements, and best practices.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve environmental management systems, policies, procedures, standards, and compliance programs, including ISO 14001.
• Carry out environmental audits, assessments, and compliance reviews while driving corrective actions, risk reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support sustainability programs focused on waste reduction, water stewardship, recycling, energy management, greenhouse gas reduction, and overall environmental performance improvement.
• Develop and maintain environmental metrics, dashboards, digital reporting tools, and management system databases to improve visibility, compliance tracking, and decision-making.
• Support environmental digitalization initiatives, including environmental data management systems, compliance software, reporting automation, and performance analytics.
• Provide environmental support for new products, process changes, capital projects, and equipment installations, ensuring environmental impacts and compliance requirements are properly addressed.
• Oversee environmental risk register and company obligations to ensure proper management and risk reduction actions.
• Assist sites with permitting, regulatory reporting, environmental incident investigations, root cause analysis, regulatory agency interactions, and environmental emergency preparedness activities.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Sustainability, Regulatory, and EHS teams to drive environmental excellence through training, employee engagement, management system effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Management, Sustainability, or a related technical field required.
• Minimum 5 years of environmental compliance or environmental management system experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• At least 3 years supporting multi-site operations.
• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP), Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA), ISO 14001 Lead Auditor and/or other relevant environmental or sustainability certifications a plus.
• Strong knowledge of environmental regulations applicable across the Americas.
• EPR and Operation Clean Sweep knowledge desirable.
• Experience with environmental permitting, waste management, wastewater, air emissions, and chemical compliance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence change and drive results across multiple facilities and functions.
• Strong project management and continuous improvement capabilities.
• Spanish and Portuguese proficiency a plus.