Regional Environmental Sustainability Specialist

Regional Environmental Sustainability Specialist

The role of Regional Environmental Sustainability Specialist encompasses overseeing the development and implementation of environmental sustainability projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with local regulations and compliance reporting for industrial facilities in APAC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a single point of execution and escalation for environmental sustainability management, serving as the key contact to effectively implement sustainability initiatives and support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of in-scope environmental sustainability activities.
• Responsible for the successful development and delivery of all activities related to assigned environmental data collection and compliance with the client's environmental management system (ISO 14001), with the support of a dedicated delivery team.
• Manage the energy, water, and waste data collection process within the client's technology platform and produce periodic reports tailored to meet our client's specific requirements.
• Manage the periodic reporting of environmental compliance data including general, chemical, toxic, and hazardous wastes based on NEA mandatory industrial waste management practices for existing industrial facilities.
• Responsible for environmental data tracking and investigation across the portfolio, delivering against targeted reductions in water, waste, and energy in line with the client's service delivery requirements.
• Drive operational improvements through the identification and implementation of opportunities to improve environmental sustainability performance in a building-level perspective.
• Engage with facility managers to become the key point of contact for providing wide-ranging advice on all aspects of environmental sustainability and compliance.
• Conduct regular environmental assessments to optimize energy, water, and waste performance for no/low-cost projects and initiatives.
• Continuously seek opportunities for improvement and innovation in energy and waste management practices, exploring emerging technologies and strategies for energy optimization, waste reduction, resource recovery, and circular economy initiatives.

Performance Objectives:

• Enhance collaboration between clients and property vendors to improve environmental sustainability solutions at the operational and asset level.
• Deliver reliable and timely agreed-upon deliverables and associated reports for legal compliance.
• Develop an actionable environmental sustainability program with quantified potential energy impacts, reporting industrial waste, and lead solution development efforts for sustainability-based challenges.
• Provide programmatic support, implement program results, meet program needs, and environmental sustainability project supports at the site level.
• Establish and expand recycling programs to improve current recycling and composting infrastructure.
• Establish stakeholder engagement programs to promote environmental sustainability awareness and standards across all APAC facilities.

Program Deliverables:

• Environmental Sustainability Management Program to provide strategic alignment on local regulation of mandatory waste management practices for existing industrial facilities.
• Recommended solutions to decrease energy, waste, and resource consumption and align with energy and waste reduction glidepath.
• Monitor variance and process in environmental performance, investigating variances, identifying, and implementing solutions at in-scope sites.
• Support ISO 14001 Environmental Management System reporting and audit at the site level.
• Advise on waste and resource variance reporting and tracking with a list of high-priority areas and provide variance reports based on those areas.
• Environmental management program for buildings to identify, justify, and help implement no/low-cost waste reduction measures at individual sites and facilitate scaling of sustainability initiatives.

Employee Requirements:

• University qualified in Environmental Engineering, Science, or other related field, with a minimum 5-year industry experience, ideally working in environmental sustainability in the industrial built environment.
• Experience reviewing and refining technical and commercial aspects of sustainability initiatives in the built environment, preferably in the context of Facilities Management and Construction.
• Strong environmental compliance and knowledge for industrial plants and facilities.
• Strong project planning and environmental management skills and ability to deliver outcomes, prioritize, and meet deadlines in high-pressure environments with competing priorities.
• Experience improving systems and processes to deliver best practice sustainability performance and use of environmental management systems for monitoring and/or reporting purposes.
• Strong ability to think strategically and engage with a range of stakeholders.

Leadership Attributes:

• Think Big - Thinks strategically, simplifies complex issues, solves complex problems, sees the big picture.
• Drive Change - Thrives on change, learning agility, intellectually curious, appetite for risks, digital drive.
• Helps others - Builds relationships, actively collaborates, helps others succeed.
• Get it done - Acts decisively, drives results, passion to win, takes ownership, accountable, resilient.
• Business first - Focuses on customers and clients, business/financial acumen, organization first.
• Inspire - Inspires others, creates vision and strategy, energizes others.