APAC Environmental Manager
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Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description:
Basic Function
The Manager Environmental APAC has three primary roles:
1. Expert Support & Leadership
- Provide environmental leadership and strategy to all APAC businesses consistent with Huntsmans corporate standards and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with legislative and corporate requirements.
- Drive continuous performance improvement by identifying and developing improvement opportunities.
- Identify and reduce environmental risks.
- Lead communication and stakeholder engagement.
2. Environmental Data & Metrics
- Review reported environmental data and provide input on environmental metrics and projects supporting Huntsmans EHS targets and sustainability program.
3. Strategic Support
- Advise APAC businesses on soil and groundwater assessments.
- Analyze data for trends incorrect reporting and unlikely patterns.
- Support environmental remediation M&A due diligence EHS auditing and related activities.
The incumbent collaborates with the Corporate EHS Legal group for timely EHS-related disclosures and participates in the Corporate Legacy and Remediation Network. Additionally the incumbent serves as a regional leader for environmental excellence mentoring site-based EHS managers and strengthening environmental capability across APAC.
Statistics / Dimensions
The incumbent is responsible and accountable for:
- Ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of publicly disclosed EHS (APAC region) information.
- Conducting due diligence for acquisition divestment and merger deals (potentially $100 million to $1 billion).
- Providing strategic and expert environmental consultancy for all Huntsman Corporation divisions globally.
- Ensuring compliance with Huntsman standards and local regulatory requirements.
- Sharing best practices reporting metrics and identifying areas for continuous improvement.
Relationships
- Reports directly to the Global Environmental Senior Manager with a strong functional link to the APAC Regional EHS Director.
- Responsible for selecting and managing external environmental service providers (consultants and contractors) for technical studies and regulatory requirements.
- Works closely with global EHS personnel Corporate EHS Governance and Shared Services Division Leadership and the EHS Global Leadership Group.
- Attends leadership meetings (e.g. Global EHS Leadership Group APAC Regional EHS Leadership Team Legacy/Remediation Network) as needed.
- Maintains a wide network of internal and external contacts including subject matter experts regulators consultants suppliers and business contacts.
Know-How
- Minimum: Bachelors degree in EHS environmental science engineering or chemistry (strong data/statistical analysis skills required).
- Preferred: Masters or postgraduate qualifications in related fields.
- At least 15 years of relevant experience in EHS operations management engineering or project management.
- Strong working knowledge of environmental regulations (especially in China and APAC) operational practices and greenhouse gas accounting.
- Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills with experience working with senior management.
Problem Solving
- Ability to identify analyze and define problems; develop and recommend solutions.
- Implement solutions within authority or gain approval by working with all organizational levels.
- Requires adaptive thinkinganalytical interpretative evaluative and constructive.
- Operates within general company policies but often needs innovative solutions for unique circumstances.
- Strategic objectives set by the Global Environmental Senior Manager; tactical objectives by the APAC Regional EHS Director.
- Must handle ambiguity to determine specific activities and programs to achieve objectives.
Accountability
- Protect the companys financial well-being by identifying and communicating potential EHS risks liabilities and sustainability issues for all APAC operations.
- Responsible for due diligence in mergers acquisitions divestitures third-party claims and emerging regulatory initiatives.
- Ensure the timeliness and accuracy of publicly disclosed EHS and sustainability information.
- Shared responsibility for EHS compliance and supporting line management.
- Implement transformational change in environmental matters within APAC in line with Huntsmans direction.
- Foster a culture of innovation and excellence in environmental management.
- Provide expert advice on environmental matters as a member of the Global Environmental Team.
- Manage consultants/contractors for soil and groundwater monitoring/remediation or support site resources in these activities.
Organization Chart
- Direct reporting line to the Global Environmental Senior Manager.
- Dotted-line relationship with the APAC Regional EHS structure.
Additional Locations:
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Program Management
- Data Collection
- Environmental Services
- Industrial Cleaning
- Root cause Analysis
- OSHA
- Project Management
- Team Management
- EPA
- Leadership Experience
- EHS
- Manufacturing
About Company
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global chemical manufacturer of differentiated and specialty chemicals serving a diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets.
