Corporate Environmental Engineer | Primient

About Primient

Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

Corporate Environmental Engineer

One of these 3 Primient sites:

Decatur, IL

Lafayette, IN

Loudon, TN

Ready for an EHS career with more impact? Join a market leader in ingredient manufacturing that is poised for a new era of success.      

ABOUT PRIMIENT
 

Established yet entrepreneurial: Primient is an industry leader with proven products, six manufacturing plants, 1500+ employees and deep roots in corn wet milling. Yet we’re also a brand-new company that is ready to drive change and create impact.

Inspired by a meaningful purpose: we use renewable sources to produce plant-based ingredients for some of the world’s best-known brands. It feels good to produce safe, high-quality, sustainable products – that go into everything from sodas to hand cream and cardboard to clothing.

Poised for a new era of success: we’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every colleague.

The Opportunity

EHSS is the number one priority at Primient. It is one of our core values and influences every business decision we make. Primient has made a lot of progress from previous years in development of cultural maturity and EHSS programs.

The CEE will primarily provide support to all Primient sites and Corporate EHSS team to ensure sustainable compliance with environmental laws applicable to Primient. The CEE will be aware of and prepare the site for changing environmental laws, validate compliance, provide guidance to strengthen local compliance assurance systems, support permitting actions and government communications, and develop local awareness & environmental risk control to continuously minimize the impact of our operations on the environmental and the communities where we operate. 

Accountabilities

• Responsible for Environmental compliance support activities under direction of the Corporate Environmental Manager to ensure the safe operation of our facilities, equipment to prevent harm to health, safety, the environment

• Provide support to enable, and empower our employees and contractors to ensure everyone is engaged in development of our Environmental programs and compliance obligations

• Develop, promote, and provide active support for the Environmental Management System, through demonstratable best practice sharing, support, and domain expertise in the Environmental field

• As a domain expert, understand Environmental Risks as they pertain to Control Systems, our activities, services, and products throughout their respective lifecycle (internally and externally), providing resource and advise to mitigate those risks

• Support generation, development, and communication of performance progress against defined Goals/Objectives to Corporate EHSS Team and beyond, where applicable

• Building relationships of trust, to allow cultural growth and development across the organization, educational knowledge sharing, and empowerment are all key attributes to the success of the role

• Being well versed on Environmental performance models, control systems, cycles and development of Environmental programs will aid in creating tactical advantages for the role

Main accountabilities

• Deliver comprehensive knowledge and expertise across all Environmental processes to ensure regulatory compliance

• Advise and implement compliance tools across business (local and enterprise level), as required

• Provide frequent updates on Environmental Management Sy