Regional Environmental

Récapitulatif du poste:
Under the direction of the Regional SHE Director and matrix reporting to the Director of Sustainability and Environment, this position will serve as the lead environmental and sustainability expert within the region, with a special emphasis on advocacy, permitting, emissions trading and wider environmental compliance activities, while also driving Cabot’s sustainability agenda in the region. The job holder is responsible for providing counsel and advice to the business regarding environmental and sustainability matters within their geographical area of responsibility. This position will support regional leadership in the development of strategies for the effective implementation of key corporate and/or regional environmental initiatives and projects always with the aim of continuously improving the environmental performance and culture in the region. This position is expected to navigate, interact, effectively communicate, and act as a change agent at all levels within the organization as it relates to environmental/sustainability matters within the scope of their responsibilities. Support special ad hoc projects as needed. It is anticipated that this position will require regional travel (~30 - 40%).

Responsabilités liées à la fonction:
Key Environmental Responsibilities
- Leads regional legislative advocacy efforts. Tracks and monitors emerging environmental policy, regulations and trends applicable to operations in the region. Provides interpretation of requirements through communication and interaction with regulatory agencies, collaboration with key partners (e.g., consultants or peer companies) and/or through participation at industry associations.
- Collaborates with other Regional Environmental and Sustainability Managers and corporate functional leaders regarding implementation of corporate standards, external standards, and industry best practices. Provides advice to regional management and local operational staff and SHE specialists regarding interpretation and implementation strategies and to assist with solving complex environmental regulatory and technical problems.
- Working closely with business, operations, and corporate/functional staff, evaluates complex environmental regulatory and sustainability requirements against business activities and/or operations within the region and develops effective implementation strategies to ensure compliance obligations and sustainability goals are understood and met.
- Works closely with regional leadership to ensure that appropriate environmental programs and associated management systems are in place and are effective in achieving the desired culture and environmental performance including compliance with regulations and appropriate corporate and industry standards. Supports efforts to implement and maintain appropriate environmental management systems (e.g., ISO 14001 and/or RC14001® technical specification), as applicable to the site/region.
- Monitors and tracks high priority environmental compliance activities (such as major permitting obligations and high priority environmental related CAPEX projects) and provides oversight and support as needed. This includes ensuring effective status reporting on environmental compliance obligations.
- Monitors and tracks environmental non-conformances and ensures appropriate investigations, root cause analysis and corrective measures of environmental non-conformances are taken. Develops specific initiatives within the region to improve environmental performance based on trends and/or issues.
- Assesses environmental knowledge and competency within the region necessary to ensure compliance and meet business objectives. Conducts training and/or identifies coaching opportunities to improve environmental compliance and/or performance in the region.
- Keeps regional leadership and corporate SH&E apprised of any key changes in environmental regulatory obligations and potential risks/liabilities.

Key Sustainability Responsibilities:

- Work closely with business, operations, and functional staff within the region to support implementation of sustainability-related initiatives with special emphasis placed on those related to achieving environmental-related sustainability goals (i.e., emissions, waste, water, energy, etc.) This includes potentially leading and/or serving on corporate sustainability/environmental goal teams.
- Coordinate and support the collection, validation, analysis and reporting of regional environmental related sustainability data and performance metrics including the collection and validation of annual waste, water, GHG (Scope 1 and 2) and other air emissions inventory data working with site environmental and operations staff. Ensure validated data is provided in time for the annual Corporate Sustainability Report.
- Assist in the creation of the annual Corporate Sustainability Report and other critical sustainability disclosure and reporting activities (e.g.,