Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Duties of the Regional Environmental Compliance Program Manager: 

• Manages environmental compliance planning and implementation program for operating sites.
• Conducts environmental compliance assessment and communicates assessment findings to operations teams.
• Supports operations personnel in completing regulatory obligations and addressing permit requirements.
• Monitors development of legislative changes in EMEA, analyze potential impacts on operations, and provide updates to the site teams.
• Interprets environmental standards, regional regulations & site permit requirements to assure compliance and management of risk.
• Interacts with facility personnel, company management, legal counsel, environmental sustainability team, and other relevant internal stakeholder to communicate environmental requirements, identify compliance issues, act as a technical resource, and coordinate on key initiatives.
• Defines and implements necessary training for facility operations personnel for managing environmental issues.
• Supports site incident investigations.
• Defines and tracks key performance indicators related to environmental compliance initiatives.
• Identities, engages, and manages consulting resources to support environmental compliance objectives. Supports facility permitting and reporting activities.
• Interacts with regulatory agency personnel on major environmental issues.

Qualifications

Required:
 
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or environmental management or related field. 

- Strong experience with environmental regulations (including air and water permitting, hazardous chemicals management/reporting, hazardous waste management and transportation (ADR), battery handling and recycling programs, spill prevention and control program) is required. 

- Combined experience in environmental permitting and compliance management.

- Experience in Europe/Middle East/Africa environmental regulations within industry and/or consulting discipline

- Experience and the ability to fully demonstrate track record in developing environmental strategies, management systems, and policies. 
- Ability to identify, develop, and evaluate solutions to complex environmental regulatory issues, root cause investigation and corrective action.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with people in a variety of disciplines though all levels of an organization.  Being able to provide in-person training when necessary.

- Experience with regulatory database

- Willingness to travel within the Europe/Middle East/Africa region
 
Preferred:
- Advanced degree in engineering or environmental sciences

- Experience in a fast-paced, global organization or Data center is a plus.