Sustainability Consultant, Sports + GHG

WM•Denver, CO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Environmentally motivated, customer service driven individual to manage comprehensive golf sustainability projects. Projects involve organizational evaluations, program implementation, stakeholder engagement and training, emissions accounting and reduction strategies, supply chain operations, material management programs, and energy and water efficient resource utilization, and social sustainability programs, among other topics. This role will help conduct assessments, generate reports indicating overall sustainability baseline, create operations and management plans, and execute programs remotely and at golf customer sites. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues. Must reside in Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Denver, Albuquerque, or Phoenix based on customer support needs. This position requires around 25% travel. This position will need to work on Central or Eastern Time to support departmental needs.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Sustainability, Architectural Design, Community Planning, Business or related field
High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant experience
3 years of relevant work experience in project/business management (in addition to education requirement)
Environmental or services industry experience

Nice To Haves

Strong project management and customer communication skills.
Experience with conducting a greenhouse gas emissions inventory and executing mitigation initiatives, organizational advisory services, and materials management required.
Knowledge of sustainability trends
Experience with sustainability risk and management frameworks, sport-specific or otherwise strongly preferred.
Experience managing venue-based sustainability project with sports and entertainment event logistics support strongly preferred.
Experience with environmental justice and intersectional environmentalism preferred.
Experience managing material minimization and diversion programs, supply chain analyses, and sustainable material management planning preferred.
Experience with green building and design.
Experience working in sports venues and event operations strongly preferred.
Experience managing multiple customers and/or projects simultaneously preferred.
Experience with implementing GHG emissions reduction initiatives and researching mitigation technology preferred.
Familiarity with venue and event assessment tools including ISO 20121, TRUE, LEED, Well, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge, Green Globes, ENERGY STAR, Council for Responsible Sport

Responsibilities

Consult with customers to identify goals and solutions and develop implementation strategies.
Engage with customers on their strategic direction for sustainability, including understanding their ambitions and context and advising on targets and potential improvement levers.
Translate for customers the sustainability impacts of WM services and solutions into language and frameworks that matter to senior company leaders and investors.
Perform full organization sustainability assessments.
Analyze assessment results and consult with customer to identify, design, and guide implementation of environmental sustainability initiatives and cost saving opportunities and proposals.
Prepare final reports, including environmental, social, and economic analysis, and present conclusions to the customer in a timely manner.
Assess procurement and waste management activities and draft comprehensive materials management plans focused on waste reduction and diversion.
Facilitate materiality assessments for sports venue customers and use results to guide strategic planning.
Integrate environmental justice priorities into program development.
Research and advise on the selection and implementation of greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact reduction strategies.
Design project schedules, maintain multiple projects at the same time, meet deadlines and delivery quality deliverables.
Analyze data sets, baseline data, and assessment findings to identify improvement opportunities.
Prepare final reports and presentations and deliver conclusions to the customer in a manner that fits their needs and in a timely fashion.
Ensure compliance with customer and government regulations when performing assessments, implementing programs, and managing other on-site functions.
Promote culture of safety by ensuring site personnel are properly trained to perform assigned duties and comply with safety, environmental, federal, state, and local regulations.
Propose customer solutions that are compliant with appropriate local, state and federal regulations.
Maintain communications and a close working relationship with key WM Market Area personnel.
Self-educate on current sustainability topics, issues, and trends.
Responsible for organizing and interpreting data.