Environmental Engineer Lead (Beech Island, SC.)

Environmental Engineer Lead (Beech Island, SC.)

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

Position Purpose:  Provide Environmental and Sustainability [E&S] process leadership for the Beech Island Mill in support of a safe, sustainable, and profitable operation.

Scope: The incumbent reports to the E&S Manager and has the responsibility to coordinate environmental efforts across the site, both Family Care and Baby Child Care, as they relate to waste management, water and wastewater systems. The incumbent must work collaboratively with the Sector and Global E&S leaders and all mill leaders to identify and lead appropriate initiatives that deliver continuous improvement in environmental results. The Beech Island site has a diverse asset base that supports the Baby Child Care and Family Care Sectors

In this role, you will:

1. Compliance Assurance:

• Ensure the site is compliant with K-C and regulatory controls and requirements related to environmental matters.

2. E&S Management System Ownership:

• Take ownership of the relevant environmental and sustainability components within the site's E&S Management System.
• Provide process technical support to maintain compliance with the K-C environmental performance standards relating to waste management, water and wastewater and other related systems.
• Manage the disposition of the hazardous materials, hazardous waste, solid waste, and recyclable materials. Owns inspections, compliance reporting, DOT Shipping Papers, Waste Manifests.
• Manage contractors for waste shipment and samples.
• Asset Owner for Recycle Balers.

3. Risk Management:

• Identify environmental aspects, hazards, emerging requirements, etc., and verify that they are managed to acceptable levels of risk or impact.
• Define the environmental and sustainability risk reduction strategy for the site, lead implementation of the plan, and continuously assess the effectiveness of performance.

4. Implement & Manage ISO E&S management system:

• Lead the facility's effort to elevate the E&S operating model to align with ISO 14001:2026 release.
• Implement strategies and initiatives to continually improve the effectiveness of the E&S programs.

5. Strategic Alignment:

• Embed K-C's E&S strategies and partner to drive execution.
• Lead the facility's initiatives to improve the maturity of environmental and sustainability programs.
• Collaborate with segment and global teams to ensure consistent application of E&S standards and best practices for environmental & sustainability.
• Drive facility E&S objectives through pipeline ideation & execution, CPC/Sustainability systems alignment, and calibration with plant & central teams.

6. Objective Setting:

• Deliver Sustainability 2030 goals (and create value) by pulling through best practices/technologies and incorporating into plans, KPIs, and budget. This includes water use reduction, climate emissions reduction, waste elimination, and chemicals of concern elimination.
• Define E&S objectives for the site and assess effectiveness of performance

7. Event Investigations:

• Lead environmental event investigations to ensure thorough root cause evaluations and verify the effective implementation of corrective/preventative actions.
• Verify the implementation of effective corrective and preventive actions to mitigate the recurrence of incidents.
• Escalate appropriately per the E&S escalation process

8. Training and Orientation:

• Ensure all employees undergo appropriate environmental and sustainability orientation and training programs.

9. Contractor Compliance:

• Ensure adherence of contractors to relevant K-C standards and E&S requirements specifically for environmental & sustainability matters.

10. Data Analysis and Reporting:

• Implement E&S rollouts of next generation digital, reporting and assurance within site to drive resource efficiency and effectiveness and build equity in K-C’s brands
• Utilize digital systems/platforms to conduct analysis of environmental and sustainabi