Associate Manager, Environment

The Associate Manager, Environment leads site-level deployment of SC Johnson’s Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) management practices to ensure compliance with local legal requirements and SCJ global standards. The role will work closely with the regional SHE manager to align SC Johnson’s overall environmental strategies with site and regional targets and objectives. This role also provides technical leadership to ensure site-wide processes associated with the management of high-hazard chemical processes are effectively deployed and maintained. While this role requires environmental technical knowledge and experience, success is equally dependent on developing and supporting “champions” within the site to drive day-to-day ownership of practices which prevent adverse environmental impacts and reduce the site’s environmental footprint.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads environmental compliance assurance processes to enable compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations and company standards.
• Supports compliance with applicable regulatory and company process safety management standards to reduce risks associated with the storage and use of high-hazard chemicals.
• Leads internal audit processes, including annual environmental management system evaluations and frequent workplace inspections, to proactively identify conditions and behaviors that can cause adverse environmental impacts or potential SHE non-conformances.
• Partners with assigned stakeholders to drive timely, effective closure of identified environmental-related corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborates with the site’s engineering and maintenance teams to ensure that inspections, testing, preventive maintenance activities associated with SHE-critical equipment and applicable high-hazard chemical processes are defined and appropriately documented.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree from an academic university in Environmental Science, Engineering or related discipline
• 5+ years of progressively increasing SHE leadership responsibility in a global manufacturing organization
• Experience in high-hazard chemical process safety management (PSM) such as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration PSM standard or European Seveso Directive.

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Advanced degree Environmental Science or related discipline
• Experience leading teams/managing others
• Ability to interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships to create win/win outcomes
• Effective communication skills that permit the clear and concise transfer of information to stakeholders
• Project management experience to enable prioritization and management of multiple projects to completion

Job Requirements:

• Full-time core office hours with expectation to be available for occasional nights/weekends
• Up to 10% domestic travel may be required
• Work in an office environment will be approximately 50% of time
• Work in a manufacturing environment will be approximately 50% of time

Inclusion & Diversity

We’re a global business, with people from every culture, ethnicity, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age and ability. We recognize the breadth of human experience, and we work to celebrate it. It is our goal to build a diverse, inclusive and supportive work environment where all people can thrive.

We’re committed to ongoing efforts that help us attract, hire, and retain diverse talent who want to build a positive, inclusive environment. Read more about our ongoing initiatives at https://jobs.scjohnson.com/inclusion.