Environmental Site Leader

Job Description

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

JOB PURPOSE

Lead plant environmental strategic and operational environmental initiatives by planning, facilitating, and communicating in alignment with regulatory requirements, plant direction and North America (NA) environmental Business Plan to ensure plant environmental compliance and achieve plant environmental performance (energy, water, and waste) targets.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Lead plant environmental communication and collaboration with both internal (depts or management within plant, Regional Operations, Corporate Communications, Legal) and external (other OEM's, trade associations, government agencies, general public) stakeholders for awareness of status, benchmarking, critical issue escalation, initiation of necessary action items, and promotion & diffusion of environmental programs, and protection & promotion of the Honda brand.
• Monitor and evaluate current environmental regulatory conditions and changes to the regulatory landscape to set plant direction & strategy; ensure environmental programs are developed to address changes.
• Develop, manage, and implement Plant Environmental Business Plan Themes and projects by applying PDCA to reduce risk, and improve environmental characteristics, and align with NA direction.
• Identify, plan, seek approval and mange Plant environmental budget (resources) to properly execute effective and efficient plant environmental management programs.
• Provide governance of plant environmental standards, systems, methods, and procedures to meet government regulation and company standards as well as other environmental obligations.
• Evaluate, as the environmental advocate, plant projects and change points against the NA and plant environmental standards for environmental impact to promote & ensure environmental policy and direction are achieved.
• Evaluate and disseminate environmental knowledge within the plant; create and execute training to ensure associate competence and success in meeting environmental targets / goals / objectives.
• Verify effectiveness & viability of plant data management systems and approve their use as tools to efficiently track and manage environmental compliance and performance.
• Develop and approve contractor SOW(s) (Scope of Work) for waste management, wastewater operations, water treatment operations, stack testing, consultants, utilities, energy procurement service provider, and sludge pit operations to support environmental strategies / requirements; periodically evaluate contractors to ensure work or service provided maintains adherence to standards / procedures.
• Plan, review and approve routine environmental compliance (air, Water, Waste) and performance (KPI's, metrics) activities, reports and permits, ensuring appropriate countermeasures are implemented and effective; review and approve plant environmental metrics reports to ensure accuracy and target achievement.
• Design and facilitate Honda internal (plant, department, Regional Operations) and external (government agencies, third party ISO 14001) audit programs to confirm effectiveness and identify gaps & opportunities for improvements in the environmental program.
• Coordinate timely countermeasures (environmental audits, compliance, and performance gaps) to ensure effectiveness and improvements to the environmental program.
• Develop capability of self, colleagues, and team through training, mentoring, and sharing of experiences in area of technical expertise and understanding.
• Foster an environment within the site receptive to innovative solutions through collaboration with internal and external entities to drive improvements, develop a benchmark environmental program, and be recognized as an industry leader in environmental sustainability.

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Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.