Senior Environmental Manager

Job Description

Radius Recycling is currently hiring a Senior Environmental Manager in the Pacific Northwest and Canada.

The Sr. Environmental Manager (SEM) is responsible for the implementation of company policies and procedural plans related to all environmental media, including air, stormwater, groundwater, solid waste, and / or hazardous waste. The SEM supports corporate and divisional environmental programs to promote compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws. The SEM will also assist with national environmental initiatives and special projects located outside of the primary regional assignment.

Benefits Information

• Annual Salary : $145,000 - $160,000 annually
• Medical benefits including medical, dental and vision plans for both you and your dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options
• Generous Flexible Time Off plan

General Position Summary & Responsibilities :

The SEM maintains regional metals recycling and automobile salvage facilities in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws, standards, and permits and has responsibility for maintaining facility compliance with applicable environmental permit conditions. The SEM has direct responsibility for these compliance activities through management of the Environmental Managers (EMs) within their assigned region.

This position has direct responsibility for conducting on-site field work associated with sampling, monitoring, observing, recording, preparing reports, records, and plans required by regulatory permits, plans, or agreements and direct responsibility in assisting the EMs in their region with successful completion of these duties at their assigned facilities. The SEM maintains a key role in the overall planning, design, installation, and operation of pollution control equipment and associated metering and / or measuring devices throughout their Region. The SEM assists with the development and delivery of training programs and provides other advice to EMs and facility operations management on the practical and necessary steps to prevent or abate pollution arising from operations and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements contained within a variety of environmental permits, plans, policies, and regulations. The SEM may also provide first line immediate environmental emergency responses to incidents, spills, releases, and accidents. The SEM’s incident response duties may include any region as needed. The SEM provides appropriate notifications to management and regulatory agencies and assists with site investigations and remediation projects related to due diligence activities and other identified environmental issues.

The primary goal of this position is to achieve excellence in all facets of environmental management throughout their assigned Region. This is to be accomplished while providing the highest quality product safely, effectively, efficiently and in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements; while reducing the frequency of accidents, errors, and compliance deviations; and increasing profits.

Essential Functions :

Operational Performance & Best Management Practices

Budgeting & Forecasting

Special Projects

Internal Control Responsibilities :

Supports Internal Control process which includes understanding, communicating, and complying with defined internal controls as well as suggesting and making modifications to the policies, procedures, and controls to better match the business.

Communicates upward problems in operations, noncompliance with the code of conduct, or other policy violations or illegal actions.

Supervisory Responsibility :

Direct supervisory responsibility for environmental employees designated at the EM, Associate EM, and Environmental Technicians. Position includes routine management of engineering contractors, environmental consultants, and other contractors. Supervision of pollution abatement equipment operators.

Job Conditions :

Office and active field working environment including collection of samples for testing, general information gathering, and project management at various locations. It is necessary to be able to walk / climb in an active industrial yard with uneven surfaces and to out-of-the-way areas. Must be comfortable with heights. Occasional exposure to inclement weather conditions and travel is required. Sometime involved in environmental issues at sites owned / operated by joint ventures and / or sister companies. Regional and domestic travel required. Position may have to respond to urgent situations on off hours and / or weekends and holidays.

Physical Activities Required to Perform Essential Functions :

Ability to lift and carry up to 20 pounds frequently, and up to 50 pounds occasionally; be mobile within an office and field environment; operate an automobile; be mobile to travel frequently by auto and airplane to local and regional locations; climb; negotiate uneven surfaces; sit, stand, and / or walk for extended periods of time; keyboard for up to several hours per day; and communicate in a professional manner in person, in writing and by phone. Visual acuity for extensive reading, examining documents, conducting field sampling related activities, operating an automobile, and operating a laptop computer.

Qualifications :

Ideal Competencies :

PLEASE NOTE : The above statements are designed to outline the functions and position requirements of this job. It does not identify all tasks that may be expected, nor address the performance standards that must be maintained.