Regional Environmental Affairs Director - Midwest Region

Reworld is a world leader in sustainable materials management. Our end-to-end platform provides services ranging from waste material handling, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, secure product destruction, industrial wastewater treatment and disposal, on-site cleaning, and transportation services.

Reworld's recycling, material processing, and Thermomechanical Treatment (TTF) facilities are critical infrastructure for transitioning to a more circular economy. Our facilities provide environmentally superior options for landfilling, recovering resources for the global economy, and significantly reducing GHG emissions. What we do every day helps our communities, clients, and customers find practical solutions to significant societal challenges and needs: sustainable materials management, renewable energy, and global climate change mitigation. Annually, Reworld's modern WTE facilities safely convert approximately 21 million tons of waste from municipalities and businesses into clean, renewable electricity to power one million homes and recycle 550,000 tons of metal.

Reworld envisions becoming a leader in sustainable materials management, circularity, and Zero-Waste-to-Landfill (ZWTL) solutions. To this end, Reworld will partner with municipal, industrial, and commercial customers to help them reduce the impact of their difficult-to-handle materials by moving them up the waste hierarchy and leveraging Reworld's unique ZWTL assets. Reworld will also focus on developing an end-to-end platform to holistically meet our customers' needs and build deep and trusting relationships with them.

The Role

Reporting to the Midwest President, the Regional Environmental Affairs Director is a brand-new role with the opportunity to lead environmental, sustainability, and compliance activities across the region, its facilities, and communities. This exciting position will design our regional sustainability and environmental strategy, ensuring local accountability, strong community involvement and partnership, and engagement from all functions. The Environmental Affairs Director will interface with existing and potential customers, communicate sustainability visions and goals effectively, and lead all efforts to uphold our sustainability promise.

Your work will include:

• Strategically establish community partners within the Midwest region to create mutually beneficial relationships, a positive brand image, and engagement from our teams. Grow our site environmental leaders to own the local work with their own community partners.

• Support growth within the region to advance sustainable waste management services through community and governmental relations along with permitting efforts.

• Educate and support the regional sales teams on sustainability & environmental affairs to grow business and exceed customer and sales expectations.

• Spearhead our key environmental performance indicators and corrective actions and rally the team to meet expectations.

• Liaise with the Corporate Environmental team to influence enterprise policy and procedure ensuring standardization, consistency, and flawless execution.

• Through direct and indirect reporting relationships, lead the Midwest Environmental team, growing and developing talent, and ensuring we have a strong pipeline of experts.

• The opportunity to present to executive leaders, staff, customers, and governmental reps to educate, influence, and push our sustainability agenda forward.

• Proactively engage with our Midwest sites to resolve and prevent environmental issues, using lean practices and a continuous improvement mindset.

Candidate Profile:

We are looking for a passionate leader who wants to take on a role that will significantly impact sustainability! Through their work, they have the unique platform to grow the business, educate our workforce, and build meaningful partnerships with the community. The successful candidate must have 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in diverse environmental areas, including compliance, permitting, stack tests, sustainability, climate change, etc., and be willing to relocate).

Additionally, it would be great if the candidate had:

• Experience developing and/or negotiating permit applications and with a focus on Title V air operating permits and solid waste facility permits.

• Experience with corporate strategy development and implementation

• Executive-level experience with Profit and Loss management

• Experience in interpreting and analyzing State and Federal regulations, specifically those impacting the waste-to-energy industry.

• Detailed knowledge of environmental regulatory programs (e.g. RCRA, Clean Air Act, etc.).

• Experience in a Lean / Continuous Improvement environment

• Successful experience interacting with Federal, State and local regulators, legislators, permitting agencies and other community organizations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in related scientific (biology, chemistry, environmental science) or engineering (environmental, chemical, mechanical, etc.) disciplines. Master's degree preferred.

• 10+ years of related experience

• Ability to travel ~35%

The expected salary for this position is $147,722 - $189,430.

This is a good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position. The final salary will consider various factors, including experience, ability, and location. Reworld is committed to paying its staff equitably, and these ranges should not be considered career salary limits or caps.

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