Environmental Lead

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage department for compliance with all safety, health and environmental standards.
• Immediately mitigate safety, health and environmental incidents or concerns, searching out assistance when needed.
• Verify, document, and follow up on all safety, health and environmental incident reports within 24 hours of incident.
• Lead/Implement small to medium capital projects. Support engineering as needed on large CAPEX projects, relative to the environment or waste plant.
• Ensure a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is completed on all incidents in department and incidents as well as corrective actions are communicated to the plant.
• Review JHSC comments and action items in area and lead opportunities for improvement
• Understand chemical and process safety requirements in the department.
• Ensure that all first aid incidents are properly responded to and proper documentation and notification is completed.
• Participate in regular safety walks/audits in the plant.
• Ensure all personnel, including contractors, comply with all plant safety standards.
• Drive towards zero waste generation for department.
• Communicate Ingredion's expectations and policies to Aqueous employees and other on-site contractors (to include the biogas plant).
• Main contact person to MECP and City of London; responsible to build good relationship and communicate issues and corrective actions.
• Gather data, calculate and report NPRI, TRA, GHG and OGHG into the MECP SWIM database.
• Report to corporate environment any complaint or event and work with them to finalize reports.
• Address and investigate complaints.
• Responsible for ensuring the plant maintains compliance regarding air, water and noise as well as the WWTP.
• In conjunction with Regulatory Director monitor any new environmental regulation and determine if applicable.

• Be a member of NA EHS team, NA sustainability team and WWIT NA team.
• Manage and optimize garbage removal, hazardous material disposal and recycling programs.
• Support and lead sustainability initiatives; led the London sustainability team with regular meetings to establish and track metrics working toward the Ingredion 2030 goals.
• Responsible to enter monthly environmental metrics.         

Customer Satisfaction

• Manage departments to eliminate all non-compliances with food safety procedures and adherence to plant GMP policies.
• Participate in customer and plant audits as required.
• Participate in customer visits.
• Assist with RCA for department quality issues.
• Assist with ensuring completion of all MCS inspections and cleaning.
• Ensure departmental operating procedures are kept current in accordance with plant ISO requirements.
• Monitor minimum inventories to ensure optimum WWTP operation.

Agility and Innovation

• Monitor and Improve energy efficiencies within the departments.
• Assist investigating and supporting troubleshooting for source of yield losses.
• Ensure departmental spend stays within budget.
• Minimize effluent losses to wastewater treatment plant.
• Support Maintenance Department by attending planning meetings.
• Monitor process performance and work with maintenance and engineering to ensure equipment is operating as needed and prioritize and drive actions as necessary

Continuous Improvement

• Lead corrective action teams to continuously drive improvement initiatives to reduce cost and increase efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to streamline operations to increase output, reduce waste, and lower costs.
• Develop and track KPI’s & Standard Work in department

Relationships and People

• Generate a committed, efficient and team-oriented attitude/philosophy and performance within the area of operations
• Motivate all employees to engage in proactive Environmental and Sustainability goals and activities .
• Ensure workforce receives necessary compliance training (Classroom, CBT’s, etc.).
• Identify high performers and recommend ongoing development opportunities for those people.
• Ensure recognition of good performers in department.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Minimum college diploma in environmental Technology or university degree in Chemical or Environmental Engineering with a minimum of 3-5 years experience
• Professional Engineering designation is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Assertive, creative, energetic, and positive thinking.
• PC literate with word processing, database, and spreadsheet experience.
• Supervision and leadership experience in manufacturing facility.