Director, Sustainability

Job Summary

Job Summary/Objective:
At Southwire, the fabric of our culture is based on the five core tenets, “growing green, living well, giving back, doing right and building worth”. As part of living through these values, Southwire has set ambitious operational sustainability goals around energy, water and waste reduction. As we grow and expand our operations, we want to ensure we are built for a long-term vision and continue to be a critical partner for the future of North American infrastructure. The main purpose of this job is to provide strategic leadership and guidance in the delivery of Southwire’s overall operational sustainability strategy. This role will be highly visible and may support all levels and Supply Chain members of the Southwire organization with situational (strategic-operational) project execution. The successful candidate will be expected to drive the initiatives via a high level of communication, community building in combination with technical aptitude and agility in the changing world of sustainability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Sustainability program deployment and enterprise level strategy execution and/or individual support at the sites including but not limited to:
    -Sustainability assessment guidance and support (knowledge in retro commissioning, LEED and ASHRAE guidelines)
    -Design and deployment of sustainability processes, projects & standards, including site level OPEX/CAPEX roadmap review and Life Cycle Studies
    -EMS/BMS standardization and other sustainability platform deployment support including AI

2.    Successful delivery of change management at our sites, including mid to senior leadership to support the sustainability agenda with hearts & minds. Ability to craft situational communication methods to ensure audience engagement & understanding.
3.    Sustainability training content development and deployment for our site team members, engineers and leadership teams
4.    Collaboration with key stakeholders to deliver value to our customers (CSCs and manufacturing sites). Connect and build strength with other functions – being a key partner to corporate sustainability, operations and EHS
5.    Gather, review, evaluate and deliver all the appropriate sustainability Data and Metrics to enable and support decisions

Required Education & Experience

Required Education: 
Bachelors Degree, preferrably in STEM field

Required Experience:
8+ years of experience in Operational Sustainability to include reducing energy and water consumption within an industrial or manufacturing environment. 
Previous people management experience 

Preferred Education & Experience

Preferred Certifications: 
LEED or ASHRAE or SBTI 

Preferred Education:
Masters Degree 

Spans of Control

Reports To:    VP, Sustainability
Number of Direct Reports:    2-4

Travel

Travel:
Domestic, up to 40% 

Working Conditions

☒Office
☒Plant Floor