Environment Director
Lamb Weston

Job Info

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Title: Environment Director

Location: Kennewick, WA

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

Provides overall environmental program oversight and strategic direction for the platform. Works with Health, Safety, and Security to develop and implement the platform's EHSS Management System. Drives technical solutions and provides leadership and direction for environmental aspects of company operations. In partnership with the business, builds consensus for aspirational environmental goals, and champions the innovative thinking and approaches required to achieve those goals. Partners with the sustainability leader to promote and devise strategies to meet sustainable development program goals and objectives and achieve results. Oversees corporate environmental staff.

Job Description

Position Responsibilities

People Development Responsibilities

• Professional coaching/mentoring
• Alignment/standardization
• Trains and/or supports Plant Managers (PMs), and environmental staff
• Works with PMs to develop facility environmental staff to next level
• Takes on and/or assigns special projects to environmental staff
• Directs environmental staff internal performance improvement opportunities

Program Responsibilities

• Represents LW internally & externally as ENV subject matter expert
• Understands the state of the art, emerging trends and best practices in the environmental field.
• Benchmarks LW's ENV performance and systems with other companies. Positions LW as an industry leader by engaging with key stakeholders externally and by speaking at conferences
• Represents LW at professional/industry associations
• Develop strategic objectives for LW's environmental program and helps guide the environmental portion of the EHSS Journey Map
  • Environmental Management System (EMS) oversight:
    • Develops LW corporate policies/stds (expectations)
  • Keeper and maintainers of corporate ENV stds/tools/policies
  • Facilitates and oversees ENV audit process
  • Monitors & communicates impending regulatory changes; leverages governmental affairs and legal support, as necessary
  • Oversees and maintains the platform-wide ENV risk register
  • Develop and communicate proactive ENV KPIs
  • Analyzes environmental data to identify trends and areas of potential risk reduction. Prepares periodic reports / dashboards summarizing platform environmental performance
  • Provides overall direction for ENV performance
  • Analyzes ENV data/info to identify trends & potential areas for risk reduction
• Implements ENV management software
• Develops and supports links between Environmental, Health/Safety and Security Functions
• Retains/project manages ENV consultants across the business, as needed
• Targets objectives at each site (builds consensus with PMs)
• Environmental engineering/capital planning:
• Work with corporate and plant ENV/engineering resources to develop the annual ENV capital plan
• Work with corporate and plant ENV/engineering resources to identify potential ENV impacts from capital investment projects as well as R&M projects (i.e. Early Management/VSU)
• Supports sustainable development initiatives and goals
• Supports facility environmental staff in permitting processes and dealings with regulators

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Position Qualifications

Qualifications/ Education/Experience/Skills:
Bachelor of Science Degree (Engineering, Biology or Chemistry);
Masters in Engineering or Science desired;
Licensed Professional Engineer or related professional certification desired;
12+ years progressive experience in the environmental/engineering field;
Expert knowledge of all environmental regulations, rulemaking, and their impact on the food industry;
Good leadership skills;
Good training and presentation skills;
Experience with the EHSS aspects of acquisitions/divestitures, especially ENV due diligence;
Experience with developing engineering scope for new equipment to fulfill compliance needs;

Demonstrated experience implementing management systems, audits and improvement processes across many facilities. Leadership / development / implementation of a corporate EHSS or ENV management systems is required;

Track record of leading and facilitating strong performance across a business unit or enterprise. Multi-site ENV leadership experience is required.

ENV Equipment Operation and Technology:
Expert knowledgeable of operational practices for environmental control systems on water supply, wastewater, air pollution and solid waste. Provide expertise to plant operators to successfully manage and operate equipment to meet permit requirements. Understanding of food processing sanitation and quality control needs in manufacturing consumer food products.

Physical Demands:
Ability to work in office environment, manufacturing operations and environmental control systems. Ability to represent Lamb Weston on environmental matters to outside stakeholders. Position will require ability to travel as needed to fulfill responsibilities. Annual travel may range up to 50%.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
  
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
  
• Paid Time Off
  
• Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
  
• Family-Friendly Employee events
  
• Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services
  

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-234672

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 06/18/2024

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $134,710.00 - $202,060.00

Lamb Weston 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 under federal, state or local law

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