Environmental Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Title V air permitting and reporting requirements
• Manage SPCC plans, stormwater programs, and water reporting protocols
• Oversee RCRA hazardous waste and DOT hazardous materials compliance
• Lead solid and hazardous waste management programs, including wastewater treatment (bonus experience)
• Supervise a team of 3 direct reports: one Environmental Analyst and two associates responsible for recycling and waste operations
• Drive sustainability initiatives and support long-term environmental goals
• Collaborate with internal teams and external agencies to maintain regulatory alignment
• Provide guidance on OSHA-related health and safety topics (basic understanding required)
• Serve as the environmental subject matter expert for the plant, supporting audits, inspections, and continuous improvement efforts

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree required (preferably in Geology, Environmental Science, or related field)
• 3–5 years of environmental experience in a manufacturing setting
• Strong working knowledge of air and water regulations, including Title V, SPCC, stormwater, and hazardous waste management
• Experience with wastewater treatment systems is a strong plus
• Familiarity with DOT compliance, RCRA protocols, and sustainability frameworks
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience managing direct reports
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
• Hands-on mindset—ideal candidates may have backgrounds as engineers or technicians, or hobbies involving machinery, cars, or shop work

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Promote Safety Culture: Actively demonstrate safety awareness and foster a positive health, safety, and environmental culture, coaching others to do the same.
• Engage Employees: Ensure employees are consulted and given opportunities to contribute to the development and implementation of programs, policies, and procedures.
• Provide Technical Expertise: Work cross-functionally to improve hazard prevention, risk control measures, and corrective actions, driving continual improvement within the site(s).
• Support Daily Operations: Contribute to daily health, safety, and environmental operations, providing support to solve complex technical issues.
• Lead Risk Assessments: Conduct hazard identification, environmental aspect identification, and risk assessment programs to identify improvement opportunities and compliance gaps.
• Drive Hazard Prevention Systems: Set targets and objectives for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex hazard prevention and control systems to reduce or eliminate potential risks.
• Develop Training Programs: Lead training, skills development, and internal communications related to hazard prevention and control for employees within the site(s).
• Evaluate and Improve Compliance: Assess site health, safety, and environmental data, legal compliance findings, and audit results to develop improvement plans using a risk-based, data-driven approach.

*Qualifications and Competencies
To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Balance Stakeholders: Anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders, ensuring their concerns are addressed and integrated into decision-making processes.
• Collaborate Effectively: Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with others to achieve shared objectives, fostering a cooperative and productive work environment.
• Drive Engagement: Create a climate where people are motivated to do their best, helping the organization achieve its objectives through effective leadership and encouragement.
• Investigate Incidents: Conduct thorough, evidence-based investigations of health, safety, and environmental incidents, performing accurate root cause analysis to implement effective corrective actions and prevent recurrence.
• Manage HSE Systems: Interpret and apply international standards to achieve and maintain an effective health, safety, and environmental management system, ensuring compliance and external certification.
• Implement Risk Controls: Select and implement sustainable risk control measures using the hierarchy of controls to protect people and reduce overall risks.
• Influence HSE Culture: Champion positive health and safety behaviors, influencing leaders and employees to create a supportive and safe environment.
• Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Identify, interpret, and manage legal and other requirements, implementing controls and monitoring performance to ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Evaluate HSE Performance: Collect and analyze data to create key performance indicators, evaluate trends, set improvement goals, inform strategy, and protect employees and the environment.
• Conduct Risk Assessments: Apply hazard identification and risk assessment techniques to analyze and prioritize risks, selecting control measures to reduce risks as low as reasonably practicable.
• Deliver Training: Instruct learners in an engaging manner, adjusting to individual and group needs to ensure knowledge, skills, and abilities are effectively applied on the job.

*Qualifications for Internal Candidates

• Intermediate level of experience required, including experience in application of Industrial Safety standards and implementation of risk controls.
• Minimal management experience preferred.

Additional Responsibilities:

• This role is responsible for environmental compliance (Air Permits, Water Regulations, Waste Mgt).
• Responsible for all environmental compliance reports to local, state, and federal. This includes all environmental reporting to Cummins Corporate HSE.
• This is role is highly technical with good understanding of the air regulations that relates to Title V.
• Responsible for the Sustainability team and collaborates with the HSE Leader on sustainability projects for the site. Ensures the WWT plant is compliance with the local, state, and federal regulations.
• Provides oversight on the contracted on-site WWT operator.
• Provides site wide training to employees on the environmental compliance requirements.
• This role will manage 3 DWU employees and 1 OCU employee.
• This role will assist the H&S Engineers on risk assessments and H&S projects.
• Role is 100% on-site

Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience where appropriate.

Interview Process
Candidates will participate in a panel interview and be evaluated based on technical expertise, leadership capability, and alignment with plant goals.

***Important***: To be considered, candidates must attach written responses to the following questions with their resume:
1. What is your environmental experience?
2. Do you have any manufacturing experience?
3. Do you have any experience in air regulations?

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $100,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person

Salary : $100,000 - $110,000