Director Environmental Management (Remote - United States)

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Job Description:

Director Environmental Management

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Director Environmental Management you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Developing and implementing environmental policies, standards, and programs aligned with the Global EHS Management System and strategy.
• Continuously monitoring global regulatory and legal requirements, as well as best practices, to update global environmental policies and standards and assisting operations in meeting or exceeding environmental compliance objectives.
• Directing Solventum’s environmental and operational sustainability data management activities and partnering with the Chief Sustainability Officer and VP, Global EHS on goal setting, project initiation and management, and program development to support ESG reporting and the development and publication of environmental and sustainability metrics (including third‑party data verification), dashboards, reports, and presentations for employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Developing and/or executing strategies to address operational sustainability issues, including energy management, resource conservation, recycling, pollution prevention, greenhouse gas reduction, waste elimination, transportation, and facility design.
• Guiding and mentoring regional EHS managers and site environmental managers on environmental matters, including regulatory inspections and enforcement actions, regulatory requirements, planning, remediation/mitigation, reporting, and source testing, as required.
• Representing Solventum in communications and negotiations with state and federal environmental regulatory agencies, as well as external industry groups.
• Providing analysis of environmental regulatory changes and developing compliance guidance for regional and site EHS and operations leaders.
• Providing technical support across all environmental aspects and media (air, water, waste, chemical management, etc.) to facilitate proactive and preventative compliance‑based decision‑making.
• Partnering with the Director of Health & Safety and Process Safety, Loss Prevention, and Audits to developing a robust, enterprise‑wide EHS compliance process aligned with applicable regulatory and legal requirements and Solventum’s EHS policies, standards, and programs

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) AND fifteen (15) years of experience with EH&S Management Systems ( i.e., ISO 14001, ISO 50001), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), SASB requirements and CSR reporting

OR

• High School Diploma/GED