Regional Environmental Compliance Manager

Circle K•Tempe, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Regional Environmental Compliance Manager is responsible for leading an in-office team and managing budget performance for operations in assigned divisions across Circle K’s North American footprint. Mission-critical operations include underground storage tank (UST) regulatory compliance, environmental permitting, reporting, and corrective actions. This role provides direct leadership to a team of Environmental Supervisors, Specialists, and Coordinators, ensuring consistent execution, regulatory adherence, expenditures, and communication across a large, geographically diverse footprint. The position serves as a customer-facing regional compliance leader, engaging regulatory agencies and internal business partners while resolving complex UST matters with minimal supervision.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in environmental compliance, fuel systems, facility maintenance, or a related specialty, with demonstrated multi-site or multi- division responsibility.
Proven people leadership experience, including managing leaders (Supervisors) and indirect teams.
Strong working knowledge of UST regulations, environmental compliance programs, and regulatory agency engagement across multiple states or jurisdictions.
Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and lead through matrixed organizations.
Ability to independently resolve complex compliance matters and apply sound judgment in high-risk situations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with environmental compliance systems (e.g., TITAN or similar platforms) preferred.
Project management experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead with a thorough understanding of all aspects of UST environmental regulatory compliance across multiple assigned divisions, including fuel system monitoring, inspections, testing, reporting, and documentation.
Provide direct people leadership to Environmental Supervisors, Specialists, and Coordinators, including organizational structure, and builds a culture of trust while workload balancing, coaching, development, and performance management.
Ensure consistent compliance execution, standards, and practices across divisions while accounting for state and local regulatory differences.
Develop, update or change processes as necessary.
Support, manage, and resolve compliance issues with the compliance and divisional teams related to USTs, fuel inventory reconciliation, reporting requirements, and Stage I/II vapor recovery systems.
Support the acquisition, renewal, and tracking of environmental operating permits, tank registrations, air permits, and other required facility permits.
Ensure team accurately maintains system activity within the TITAN system.
Serve as a liaison with regulatory agencies regarding inspections, inquiries, enforcement actions, notices of violation, and compliance commitments.
Ensure timely resolution, documentation, and regulatory closure of deficiencies.
Partner with internal stakeholders including Maintenance, Facilities, IT, Wholesale, Fuels, Legal, and Operations to resolve compliance gaps and implement corrective actions.
Collaborate with the Project Team on tank removals and other regulated environmental projects within assigned divisions, ensuring timely, accurate, and budget focused strategies.
Contractor/vendor management of bid requests, contracts, scope, reporting, invoicing accuracy.
Ensure costs align with approved scope and compliance requirements.
Serve as a resource on complex compliance scenarios across divisions, evaluate corrective action options, and implement solutions using established procedures and regulatory guidance.
Maintain UST Class A/B Operator certifications across applicable states within assigned divisions.
Monitor team’s workflow, performance metrics, and task completion to ensure service levels, compliance timelines, and regulatory commitments are consistently met.
Drive and own continual improvement process, KRAs and KPIs.
Escalate high-risk or enterprise-impact issues as appropriate while maintaining ownership through resolution.
Perform other related duties as assigned in support of enterprise environmental compliance objectives.
Work closely with the other Environmental Compliance Managers to resolve complex compliance issues, reducing delays, and ensuring ESS operations are effective and mission-driven.
Bring a high-caliber work ethic and hold assigned ESS compliance team accountable to high performance standards.
Managing holistically with assigned ESS compliance team in coordination with other ESS compliance teams and overall Environmental Shared Services.
Emphasize Circle K’s One Team value.
Take action to resolve urgent Compliance issues, review best practices, contribute to continual improvement.
Work collaboratively with internal teams such as Business Unit Operations, Real Estate, and Fuels.
Other relevant opportunities as assigned.