Environmental Sustainability Manager

At Saputo, we bring good to the table by making high-quality products, investing in our people, and supporting communities around the world . As a top 10 global dairy processor, we value contributions that matter and strive to foster an inclusive, growth-driven work environment. Ready to bring your best?

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Saputo, our best comes from our people. We’re a talented and caring team with a longstanding history of excellence. Since our first days delivering cheese on a bicycle, we’ve grown into a leading global dairy processor by staying true to the culture that defines us. Each of our employees is committed to uphold our tradition of care, quality, and passion through food, and together, we foster an environment where we can all make contributions that matter–from our manufacturing plants to our office locations and everywhere in-between.

We are looking for a passionate, well-rounded environmental professional to help drive significant and sustainable progress in environmental management and performance at our Delhi (NY) and Newington (CT) facilities.  This is a unique opportunity to catalyze tremendous impact through an organization poised for progress.  As Environmental Manager, you will oversee and manage the facility’s Environmental Management System (EMS), systematically ensuring environmental compliance and driving progress against our sustainability goals – energy, water, and waste.  You will serve as the plant’s environmental advisor, change agent and specialist.  In this position, you will flex a wide variety of skillsets, including tactical planning, creative problem solving, data analytics, reporting and people development.  This role requires an insightful, organized and data-driven relationship-builder with working knowledge in environmental compliance and sustainability and technical proficiency in manufacturing systems.

How You Will Make Contributions That Matter

As Environmental Manager for our Delhi (NY) and Newington (CT) sites, you will oversee implementation of Saputo’s Environmental Management System at the facility to ensure we achieve our environmental objectives. This is a hands-on role that engages and collaborates closely with teams across the plant structure that includes operations, maintenance, sustainability, compliance, engineering, sanitation.

• Understand what the facility needs to accomplish, determine where to focus efforts and develop tactical plans for delivering on identified goals towards reduction of energy, water and waste.
• Carry out the plans, both directly and indirectly by engaging and guiding other key players at the site
• Seek out and advocate for the resources required to implement the facility’s EMS, build EMS-related capability within the site through tools and training, and communicate the facility’s environmental progress and impact to key internal and external stakeholders
• Monitor and measure the facility’s environmental KPIs to ensure plans are delivering the desired results and to cultivate insights into opportunities for improvement
• Advocate and facilitate action for continual environmental performance improvement

While this role will focus on holistic environmental management across both the compliance and sustainability spheres, there will be a heavier near-term focus on building capability and driving performance improvements specifically related to environmental sustainability.

You Are Best Suited For The Role If You Have….

• A bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Environmental Management, Engineering or in a related field, or the equivalent experience.  Knowledge of/experience in dairy industry desirable.
• At least 3 years of working experience in a manufacturing plant, with technical capacity for assessing and optimizing utility systems (heat & steam, compressed air, refrigeration, CIPs, etc.), including know-how for calculating theoretical/actual performance improvements and associated savings. 
• Hands-on/Boot-on-the-ground, highly motivated, self-starter attitude who can operate independently with little oversight, and with a strong practical reasoning ability who is capable of breaking down complex problems into pieces that can be solved with data, analysis, field work, and judgment.
• Direct professional experience in Environmental roles, with specific experience in either:
  • Executing an effective resource conservation (energy/water/waste) program
  • Project management in a manufacturing setting
  • Collecting and analyzing KPIs for reporting and developing actionable insights
  • Implementing environmental management systems
• A positive, enthusiastic,