PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Environmental Leader is responsible for ensuring the existence of an environmentally conscientious culture and sustaining an effective, efficient world class environmental stewardship program.

As a key member of the Plant’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Team this individual provides guidance and coaching to drive ownership and accountability in the areas of environmental compliance and stewardship related to all plant activities. This individual is responsible for providing environmental leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of critical processes, programs, training, and procedures to achieve Plant and Company goals, and objectives.

Reports to: Environmental Health and Safety Leader

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Guide the Plant in developing risk-ranked strategic plans, prioritize and advocate capital/resource requests, and advise the leadership team on all aspects of environmental requirements and responsibilities.
• Drive and maintain compliance with Environmental Compliance Approvals (ECA), plans and deviation reporting.
• Develop, implement, track, and test environmental programs such as air and water compliance, above ground and underground storage tanks, spill prevention and control, hazardous waste and materials management, solid waste recycling and employee training.
• Safely and cost effectively leads the ongoing internal captive landfill operations by providing daily direction to the contractor(s), ensuring all permitting and monitoring requirements are in compliance. Focus on meeting ongoing needs of Plant operations teams.
• Provides ongoing technical support to the Plant’s wastewater processing systems, ensuring all permit, reporting, and monitoring requirements are in full compliance.
• Develop and maintain environmental monitoring and recordkeeping to satisfy requirements of the plant’s ECAs/plans.
• Knowledge of key required Environmental recordkeeping or reporting tools like; SharePoint sites, Tier II Submit, TRIe Web, Aspen Tech/IP21, Lotus Notes, etc.
• Facilitate required environmental testing of air, water, and waste sources.
• Lead and support Environmental initiatives and processes to drive towards zero non-conformities and/or NOV’s.
• Leads Plant’s efforts to meet Corporate Sustainability goals, with emphasis on Energy, Water, and Waste-to-Landfill reduction aspects.
• Manage all aspects of the plant’s Hazardous waste, Solid waste, and Universal waste within Federal, Provincial, and Municipal guidelines.
• Assess product, process, and operational changes to determine environmental impact.
• Implement, facilitate, and drive a robust Environmental Management System.
• Review or change policies and procedures to comply with changes to Environmental regulations and standards.
• Track and initiate actions from plant sustainability and environmental metrics
• Work with Division resources to facilitate Corporate Sustainability reporting, GHG reporting, and other current or pending regulatory requirements
• Interact with outside consultants on regulatory and permitting changes, ensuring ability to comply with agreed upon requirements.
• Act as the plant liaison on environmental issues affecting community and industrial neighbors.
• Provide leadership required ensuring operations and, maintenance personnel are aware of and held accountable for environmental compliance.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of all critical Environmental processes, programs, and procedures.
• Sets and accomplishes critical environmental metrics regularly to ensure continuous improvement in the processes that lead to a 100% engaged culture on the floor.

Provide Environmental and Sustainability Leadership

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  Provide site leadership for operational sustainability initiatives around reducing the company’s footprint in energy consumption, waste, water, air, and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Support the company values of “Expanding Our Impact through Sustainability” through on and off-the-job environmental programs.
• Build and foster positive environmental behaviors and performance among all plant employees
• Provide regulatory guidance to facility leadership team and operations personnel.
• Maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, influence employee behaviors, and fully engage employees in the sound environmental process management process.
• Enroll and engage the entire workforce to build a powerful safety culture.
• Live the Owens Corning safety stand, adhere to the safety responsibilities.

Metrics

• Federal, State and Municipal Environmental compliance with regulations and requirements.
• Plant Internal Environmental Metrics.

• Corporate and Division metrics for Sustainability improvements/footprint reductions
• Internal Landfill Operations costs.
• Feedback from plant leadership team members.

Knowing Our Customers

Continuously elevates the environmental awareness and perspective of self and others by knowing our environmental responsibilities, our products, and manufacturing processes. The Environmental Lead applies this knowledge to successfully influence other leaders to understand and make the best business decisions.

Job Requirements

Experience:

• 5 years of experience working in an industrial or manufacturing environment preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required. Degree in Environmental discipline is strongly preferred, engineering, business management, or related discipline.
• Management Systems experience is preferred.
• Leading change management efforts.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

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  Forward thinking leadership abilities including the ability to motivate, lead by example and encourage teamwork and effective communication.
• Past work with Government Regulatory agencies is beneficial.
• Experience with computer programs like Excel, Access, is beneficial.
• Experience with management systems is beneficial.

Personal Characteristics:

The specific Leadership Capabilities required for success:

• • Act on Analysis
  • Collaborate and Foster Teamwork
  • Follow Through on Commitments
  • Generate Ideas
  • Think Strategically
  • Inspire and Energize Others
  • Leadership Presence

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.

The base salary range for this position is $99,000 to $129,000, with the potential for up to an additional 25% if the applicant hired has additional related qualifications. We also offer a substantial benefits package including insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability/supplemental offerings), 401k (company contribution regardless of employee participation – plus match), liberal paid time off (vacation, personal floating and standard holidays), Employee Assistance Services, Stock Purchase Program – and more.

About Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a global building and construction materials leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our three integrated businesses – Composites, Insulation, and Roofing – provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique material science, manufacturing, and market knowledge to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with approximately 20,000 employees in 33 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders, and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2021 sales of $8.5 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com.

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer.