Environment & Sustainability Specialist

This position will lead and manage Environmental programs, processes, and remediation throughout the North American HUB (Canada & United States).  Each of the site’s Environmental Practitioners will have a dotted line into the HUB Environmental Specialist who will report to the HUB HSSE Manager.

In your role as a HUB (Regional) Environmental Specialist at Hitachi Energy you will be part of our success by:

• Acting as a coach and advisor toward the leadership team concerning environmental management
• Program / process development to enhance organization’s compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal environmental regulations.
• Providing support for the Company and Business Unit environmental management systems and assisting the sites with inspections and audits, analyzing the results, and managing the corrective actions
• Ensuring compliance to environmental incident reporting, investigation, and analysis program.
• Assisting the sites with customer environmental requests as well as consolidating / presenting HUB environmental information upon customer request
• Assist and oversee any ongoing environmental remediation that is occurring within the HUB.
• Contributing to the development and implementation of various Company and Business Unit environmental programs and procedures (Energy Management, Greenhouse Gases, Material Compliance, Waste Management, etc.)
• Propose and oversee environmental KPI’s to drive overall environmental improvement within the business.
• Help to identify sustainability projects that will reduce overall environmental impact.
• Act as a coach for ISO 14001 certified factories.  Act as a coach for ISO 50001
• Responsible for participation in HSSE strategic planning to help move the organization towards achieving all KPI’s as well as target and objectives.
• Responsible for participation in annual HUB HSSE department budgeting and capital expenditure planning 

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Qualifications:

 
Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental or Occupational Health Sciences
• Eight or more years of relevant HSSE experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of environmental regulations including air, wastewater, stormwater, remediation, and hazardous waste
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and influencing skills
• Proven problem solving and decision-making skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office and plant specific software systems

Preferred:

• Professional certifications (e.g., CHMM, REM, CSP, CIH)
• Experience and/or familiarity with environmental ISO standards
• High comfort level with digitized management tools
• Experience with represented workforce

Ability to operate within and support matrixed leadership and functional teams