Local recruitment: Environmental Water Lead

Owens Corning

Granville, OH, USA 🇺🇸

Job ID: 59985

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Water Lead is a newly created position on the Corporate Sustainability team at Owens Corning to provide corporate oversight to water compliance and footprint management across the organization.  This role will be centered on standard management systems to reduce risk and achieve enterprise goals. This position will work closely with the Environmental Leaders of each Owens Corning business, corporate Environmental Engineering, and the corporate Regulatory Law department. This role includes global responsibilities, working closely with global regional Environmental Leaders.

Reports to:  Director, Enterprise Environmental & Operations Sustainability

Span of Control: Global, individual contributor.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Water Compliance (60%)

  • Scope of compliance includes stormwater, industrial wastewater, water withdrawal, and drinking water.
  • Develop and implement a global Owens Corning Water Management System with the purpose of maintaining compliance, minimizing environmental impact, and achieving sustainability goals.
  • Develop and implement a global Owens Corning Water Internal Auditing program.
  • Assist the businesses and facilities with regulatory applicability determinations.
  • Review and analyze corporate water compliance performance and deploy compliance strategies.
  • Support Owens Corning growth projects that require environmental permitting.
  • Monitor and review evolving and emerging regulations. Assess impact of regulatory changes to Owens Corning and propose course of action.

Water Footprint (40%)

  • Support global Owens Corning performance against Water Withdrawal Sustainability Goals by consulting on strategies to reduce environmental impact of water withdrawal.
  • Support global Owens Corning performance against wastewater emissions for Sustainability reporting by consulting on strategies to reduce environmental impact of wastewater emissions.
  • Perform risk analysis for water. Assist plants with setting site specific, context-based targets for water.
  • Provide oversight and guidance for sustainability reporting.
  • Lead development of water balances for manufacturing sites.
  • Explore innovative technologies and assess cost and benefits to operations.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

  • In-depth knowledge of United States NPDES regulations.
  • Knowledge of Mexican, Canadian, or European air regulations is a plus.
  • Knowledge of EPCRA reporting requirements.
  • Ability to solve complex problems with multiple stakeholders. Complex problems are those that may involve multiple regulatory schemes, competing business priorities, and uncertain outcomes.
  • Ability to influence others in a matrix organization to accomplish goals and objectives.
  • Strong user skills for Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), including the ability to compose and manage complex Microsoft Excel workbooks and spreadsheets.

ABOUT OWENS CORNING

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has placed on the Fortune 500®. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe.  A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within each and every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope – human in scale.

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About Owens Corning  

Owens Corning is a global building and construction materials leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our three integrated businesses – Composites, Insulation, and Roofing – provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique material science, manufacturing, and market knowledge to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with approximately 20,000 employees in 33 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders, and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2021 sales of $8.5 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com.

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer.

Please note: Applications must be filled out completely—incomplete applications will not be considered. Resumes are welcome, but are not a substitute for completing the application.


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