Sr. Corporate Environmental Specialist

OSI Careers•Warrenville, IL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Corporate Environmental Specialist is responsible for supporting environmental compliance programs across OSI's North American manufacturing facilities. This position partners directly with facility Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) teams, Operations, Engineering, and Corporate leadership to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations. The role serves as a technical resource for permitting, reporting, auditing, wastewater compliance, air compliance, stormwater management, hazardous waste, spill prevention, and environmental management systems while driving continuous improvement throughout the organization. This position reports to the Environmental Compliance and Sustainability Sr. Manager. The job is an individual contributor and has no direct reports.

Requirements

Five (5)+ years of environmental compliance experience in manufacturing, food processing, chemical manufacturing, or another regulated industrial environment.
Experience managing environmental compliance programs across multiple facilities and supporting regulatory agencies, audits, permitting, and reporting.
Working knowledge of federal, state, provincial, and local environmental regulations and compliance programs, including air permitting, industrial wastewater, industrial stormwater, SPCC, hazardous waste, EPCRA, and TRI.
Experience conducting environmental audits, compliance assessments, regulatory reporting, and implementing corrective actions.
Familiarity with Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) and environmental compliance management processes.
Proficiency with environmental compliance management systems, including Benchmark Gensuite and EPA CDX.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills for environmental reporting, data analysis, and regulatory documentation.

Responsibilities

Coordinate environmental compliance programs across North American manufacturing facilities to ensure compliance with federal, state, provincial, and local regulations.
Manage environmental permitting, regulatory reporting, compliance calendars, and documentation while monitoring regulatory changes and implementing new compliance requirements.
Conduct environmental compliance audits, inspections, and gap assessments to evaluate regulatory compliance.
Develop and track corrective action plans, support continuous improvement initiatives, and maintain compliance records using Benchmark Gensuite and other environmental management systems.
Support the implementation and continual improvement of the corporate Environmental Management System (EMS), including ISO 14001 documentation, procedures, internal audits, standardized processes, and corporate environmental best practices.
Provide technical environmental guidance and regulatory interpretation to EHS, Operations, Engineering, and Plant Leadership.
Coordinate industrial wastewater compliance, environmental incident response, spill investigations, root cause analyses, and other specialized environmental programs.
Develop environmental procedures, guidance documents, compliance tools, and training materials.
Deliver environmental compliance training while partnering with manufacturing facilities, corporate leadership, consultants, customers, and regulatory agencies to promote consistent environmental compliance.
Manage multiple environmental compliance projects, prioritize competing initiatives, and support sustainability efforts, including greenhouse gas reporting, environmental performance metrics, customer environmental requests, and other corporate environmental objectives.
Travel regularly to manufacturing facilities to provide on-site technical support, conduct inspections, and assist with environmental initiatives.