Prog Mgr, Environmental

The Prog Mgr, Environmental role at Linde in Torrance, CA involves supporting environmental compliance across the Americas by implementing plans and processes, providing expertise, and conducting site evaluations. Responsibilities include managing environmental permitting, conducting audits, and ensuring adherence to regulations. This position is crucial for achieving 100% environmental compliance and fostering a culture of stewardship within the organization, contributing to Messer's commitment to sustainability.
About the position

The purpose of this role is to support Messer operations and businesses across the Americas, including the United States, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile, by implementing environmental plans, processes, programs, and standards to ensure compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations. This includes providing environmental expertise, coaching, and training to ensure that Messer's employees understand and comply with Messer standards as well as federal, state, and local regulatory requirements. This supporting role will expand the environmental team's bandwidth, allowing the team to self-perform more tasks, potentially reducing the reliance on consultants and related costs. It will also enable increased site reviews, evaluations, and audits to better identify compliance gaps and address them effectively. The role is critical in ensuring that Messer operations are in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulatory requirements in a proactive manner. This contributes to Messer achieving its goal of 100% environmental compliance and demonstrates the company's commitment to positive environmental stewardship with regulatory agencies and local communities. The position involves supporting various environmental permitting matters, conducting site evaluations, managing reporting requirements, and promoting a culture of environmental compliance within the organization. Messer is the world's largest privately held industrial gases company, and the work done here is integral to various aspects of life, from medical gases to essential elements for sustainable production. The strength of Messer lies in its people, and the company values the impact each employee makes in providing essential solutions. Joining Messer means being part of a stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by a caring team.

Responsibilities
• Supports Messer sites with environmental permitting matters, including review of permit applications and related documents such as SWPPPs, SPCC plans, etc.; and responding to site inquiries on environmental issues and advising on course of action.
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• Supports investigations related to environmental incidents, including root cause analysis and development of corrective actions.
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• Conducts visits to sites to evaluate environmental permitting and regulatory compliance; identify gaps; and develop corrective actions.
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• Manages pesticides FIFRA and CA DPR reporting and any additional reporting that may arise. Supports sales team with related inquiries.
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• Manages Spill Center (except invoicing which is managed by the DIST team), including supporting related investigations as needed.
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• Develops a list of spills and releases reporting guidelines per state.
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• Supports sites with their Tier 2 and TRI submittals; and other submittals as needed.
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• Supports environmental components of various internal and external audits.
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• Maintains working knowledge of all environmental regulations in the US and Canada.
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• Supports implementation of enhanced waste management practices including updated procedures, forms, and related waste management plans and training.
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• Addresses non-ESG air emissions related questions, permitting, etc., including the EPA GHG reporting process whenever applicable.
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• Supports implementation of Environmental Management System (including ISO 14001) related procedures and chapters.
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• Participates in the development and delivery of environmental related training.
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• Tracks and compiles environmental sustainability metrics, such as water consumption, refrigerants emissions, vehicle mileage, and others as applicable or requested.
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• Promotes a culture of environmental compliance and a commitment to environmental leadership by providing local facilitation, consultation, training, and support for local management teams.

Requirements
• Demonstrated knowledge of environmental regulations related to air, water (including wastewater and stormwater), hazardous materials, RCRA, etc.
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• Experience with water and air treatment technologies and practices.
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• Experience working with regulatory agencies.
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• Experience with environmental auditing.
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• General knowledge of environmental sustainability matters, including metrics and scopes.
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• Ability and discipline to work independently.
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• Negotiation and communication skills.
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• Ability to work with others at various organizational levels.
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• Customer focused.
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• Embracing and Leading Change.
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• Must have excellent writing skills.
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• Computer savvy.

Nice-to-haves
• Experience with ISO 14001.

Benefits
• Comprehensive benefits package
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• Ongoing training and career progression opportunities
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• Steady schedules
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• Appreciable pay