About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Overview</b></H2> </div><div><p>The Principal Program Manager, Corporate Environmental Compliance provides enterprise-level environmental compliance oversight, technical direction, and program governance for Great Lakes Cheese Manufacturing and Packaging facilities. This role is responsible for maintaining a consistent, risk-based environmental compliance program across the organization, and ensures that EHS, Plant and Executive leadership are informed of all environmental compliance concerns, leading indicators, potential issues, and actual compliance events.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Provide corporate-level technical guidance and expertise for environmental compliance, permitting, environmental engineering controls, and environmental risk management across all cheese manufacturing and cheese packaging facilities.</li> <li>Provide multi-site environmental compliance oversight for all cheese manufacturing and cheese packaging facilities in the network. </li> <li>Provide site leadership guidance for the day-to-day environmental execution responsibility of local plants, including providing corporate governance, technical support, escalation, and assurance.</li> <li>Lead and maintain oversight of environmental compliance programs across the organization, including wastewater, air emissions, stormwater, spill prevention, waste management, chemical reporting, permitting, recordkeeping, and regulatory submissions.</li> <li>Maintain and guide the corporate environmental compliance governance model, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities across EHS, plant leadership, engineering, maintenance, operations, and external consultants.</li> <li>Lead and support the development of corporate responses, technical guidance, implementation plans, and standardized interpretations to drive consistent action by plants.</li> <li>Review and provide direction on environmental aspects of facility design, process changes, capital projects, equipment upgrades, wastewater treatment systems, air emission controls, utilities, refrigeration-related programs, and other operational changes to support compliance by design.</li> <li>Develop and maintain a standardized environmental data management framework for permits, sampling results, inspections, waste profiles, emissions calculations, compliance calendars, corrective actions, and key performance metrics across facilities.</li> <li>Strategically develop and implement corporate environmental policies, procedures, standards, playbooks, and best practices aligned with regulatory requirements, corporate risk tolerance, operational needs, and customer expectations.</li> <li>Develop, implement, and audit environmental compliance programs required by local, state, and federal regulations, including programs related to the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, RCRA, EPCRA/SARA, SPCC, stormwater, wastewater pretreatment, and other applicable requirements.</li> <li>Support environmental permitting, regulatory inspections, agency reporting, and agency follow-up, ensuring communications are coordinated with plant leadership, Corporate EHS leadership, and legal counsel as appropriate.</li> <li>Track, analyze, and report environmental compliance metrics, leading indicators, permit status, agency interactions, corrective action performance, and environmental risk trends to Corporate EHS and plant leadership.</li> <li>Support environmental stewardship and sustainability initiatives where they intersect with compliance, resource efficiency, waste reduction, water use, wastewater performance, emissions, customer expectations, and operational risk reduction.</li> <li>Partner with plant leadership and resources to embed environmental compliance into daily operations through training, auditing, compliance calendars, standard work, permit-condition ownership, and corrective/preventive action follow-up.</li> <li>All GLC employees are expected to produce products in a manner that exceeds the quality and value expectations of customers and consumers by adhering to Good Manufacturing Practices and the policies and procedures outlined in the Safe Quality Food Program.</li> <li>Other responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Manager, Corporate Environmental Health and Safety.</li> <li>The pay for this position is $93,800 - 143,800 per year. All offers will be based on a candidate’s skills, prior relevant experience, applicable degrees and certifications, and internal equity. This range is specific to New York and may not be applicable to other locations.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Required Education and Experience</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related field.</li> <li>6 years of progressive environmental compliance or environmental management experience in manufacturing.</li> <li>Demonstrated success leading environmental compliance programs in a manufacturing environment, with strong preference for wastewater treatment, dairy, cheese, food manufacturing, or other high-strength wastewater operations.</li> <li>Ability to develop, interpret, and lead performance against environmental key performance indicators, leading indicators, and corrective action metrics.</li> <li>Strong leadership, organization, project management, prioritization, and influencing skills in a matrixed, multi-site environment.</li> <li>Ability to communicate effectively with plant personnel, operators, maintenance, engineering, site leadership, corporate leaders, regulators, consultants, and legal counsel.</li> <li>Demonstrated understanding of environmental permitting, reporting, recordkeeping, compliance calendars, agency submissions, environmental metrics, and audit/corrective action processes.</li> <li>Proficient in Microsoft Office and environmental data management or compliance tracking systems; ability to use data visualization and reporting tools preferred.</li> <li>Ability to travel up to 40% to support plant visits, audits, agency inspections, project reviews, and compliance assurance across the nine-plant network.</li> <li>Must be legally authorized to work for a company in the U.S. without sponsorship.</li> <li>Working knowledge of federal environmental regulations and the ability to interpret state and local requirements applicable to manufacturing facilities.</li> <li>Experience building practical compliance systems that can be executed consistently by plant teams.</li> <li>Ability to balance compliance assurance, operational practicality, risk escalation, and continuous improvement across multiple facilities.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Preferred Education and Experience</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Wastewater treatment certifications or operator licensure; professional certification such as CHMM, REM, PE, or equivalent credential preferred.</li> <li>8-12 years of progressive environmental compliance or environmental management experience in manufacturing.</li> <li>Experience supporting multiple facilities. </li> <li>Experience with EPA RMP, OSHA PSM interface, ammonia refrigeration environmental considerations, SPCC, stormwater, air permitting, EPCRA/Tier II/Form R, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and wastewater pretreatment requirements.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Working Conditions</b></H2> </div><div><div>• Occasional exposure to industrial operations including: temperature extremes from approximately 35ºF to 100ºF; noise levels in excess of 85 dB; moisture and moving machinery.</div><div>• Must be able to evaluate conditions and behaviors by periodically walking through the plant. Must be able to climb stairs, ladders, and work at heights.</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>EEOC & Disclaimer</b></H2> </div><div><div>Great Lakes Cheese is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.</div></div></div></div>