Senior Environmental Leader

Plaquemine, LA

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place.

About you and this role

Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Environmental Leader to support Operations in the Louisiana area. This role is primarily based at Plaquemine, LA with being about 20% present at other sites in LA.

As the Senior Environmental Leader, you will lead the implementation of the environmental management system in across Louisiana, in order to ensure that the business and site goals and objectives are met and that the license to operate is maintained.

You provide environmental leveraged support across the state encompassing operations in Plaquemine, St. Charles, Grand Bayou, and Greensburg and responsibility for a large scope of Dow assets and employees. Provide people leadership to the Louisiana environmental leveraged resources. Develop plans of execution to ensure alignment with operational long-term strategy. As a leader, you foster a work environment with a high level of integrity and strong customer and environmental focus that embraces inclusion and diversity, innovation and sustainability, continuous improvement, and empowerment.

Responsibilities

Collaborate, leverage, and ensure connectivity with EH&S Sustainability/Business Services/Environmental Expertise/Regulatory Affairs in order to ensure seamless support of all Environmental performance improvement and license to operate activities which include permit modification/renewals, compliance/Sustainability reporting, Agency Inspections and new/modified regulations.
Identify regional opportunities and facilitate the process to leverage Environmental resources across the sites as needed.
Coach other EH&S team members to determine specific Environmental needs that can be optimized by leveraging across the region.
Develop and maintain a continuous improvement culture, implementing global initiatives and regional specific projects through the regional group to achieve results.
Develop cost-effective implementation of Environmental systems through effectively leveraging of resources, standard work processes, common systems, learnings and sponsoring improvement and compliance projects across the region.
Own and implement the regional Environmental people work processes, tools and procedures and ensures execution to attain and maintain and effective Environmental organizational support structure.
Develop a supporting network in which the regional Environmental team can train, coach, and develop operational resources.

Qualifications

A minimum of a bachelor’s degree OR relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 ranking OR Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class ranking.
A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience (i.e., engineering, manufacturing, or related experience).
Must possess a TWIC card or be eligible to obtain a TWIC card. For information on TWIC eligibility requirements, please see: https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic (If unable to access link, copy and paste in your browser.)
A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Additional notes

Environmental management system experience is preferred.
This position does not offer relocation assistance.

Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.

Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:

Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.

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