Regional Environmental Advisor

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The Regional Environmental Advisor supports the respective Regional Environmental Manager to deliver environmental compliance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence through regulatory guidance, technical expertise, and cross-functional collaboration. This role serves as a key link between the Environmental Management System (EMS), operational teams, and regulatory expectations, ensuring the effective implementation of environmental policies, training, incident response, and improvement initiatives across divisions.

What You Will Do

• Advise divisions on environmental work prioritization using technical expertise, regulatory requirements, and company policies to guide decision-making.
• Interpret and communicate environmental regulations and policy changes, ensuring consistent understanding and compliance across divisions.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of environmental reports, acting as the indirect responsible party for follow-up and issue resolution.
• Coordinate incident management activities, including investigation, documentation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and shared learnings.
• Provide support and assistance for permitting and approvals.
• Monitor regulatory compliance and legal risks, maintaining proactive communication with divisions to identify, escalate, and resolve issues.
• Deliver training and onboarding for new environmental staff. Support development of environmental acumen across divisions.
• Track and follow up on audit findings, mill visit deficiencies, and compliance gaps to ensure completion and continual improvement.
• Promote consistency in EMS application and compliance practices across divisions to ensure enterprise-wide alignment.
• Enable a culture of environmental responsibility by fostering awareness, best practices, and continuous improvement across all operational levels.

Areas Of Responsibility

What You Will Need

Our Highly Competitive Compensation Package And Outstanding Benefits Include

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If you are ready to build your career in a company that thrives on growth, a safe work environment, rewarding work, challenge, and opportunity, come build your career with us at West Fraser :

West Fraser is a diversified North American wood products company producing southern yellow pine lumber and wood chips across the Southern US and Western Canada. We are the largest lumber producer in North America!

Our employees operate in a culture that values safety first and rewards hard work. We recognize and support our team culture and focus on growing our team by promoting from within many of our employees have built their careers with us. West Fraser is a growing company that believes strongly in promoting from within and prides ourselves on providing a challenging environment with continuous development. The successful candidate should be interested in future growth opportunities within the company.

We thank all candidates for their interest. Please apply through our online application process as resumes will not be accepted at the site. No phone inquiries, please.

West Fraser believes inclusive, diverse teams build a more vibrant workforce, safer operations, and a stronger company overall. We strive to create workplaces and leadership teams that are reflective of the diverse communities we are a part of. We will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, gender, national origin, or any other protected legal characteristic.

West Fraser is an Equal Opportunity Employer M / F / V / D & Drug-Free Workplace

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing

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