Sustainability Consultant, Venues - WM
Des Moines, IA
About the Job
As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
I. Job Summary
Environmentally motivated, customer service driven individual to manage comprehensive sustainability advisory projects for professional sports venues. This role will help conduct assessments, generate reports indicating overall sustainability baseline, create operations and management plans, and guide customer implementation and strategic planning. Customers include professional and collegiate sports venues. Projects involve organizational evaluations, program implementation, stakeholder engagement and training, emissions accounting and reduction strategies, supply chain analyses, material management programs, energy and water efficient resource utilization, and social sustainability programs, among other topics. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues.
Must reside in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houston, Nashville or Atlanta based on customer support needs. This position requires around 35% travel, typically two weeks at a time.
II. Essential Duties and 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 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.
+ This position will need to work on Central or Eastern Time to support departmental needs.
+ Other duties as assigned.
III. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. Must live and work in the US.
A. Education and Experience
Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Sustainability, Architectural Design, Community Planning, Business or related field or High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant experience required.
Experience: Three (3) years of relevant work experience in project/business management (in addition to education requirement) and Environmental or services industry experience required.
Preferred experience: Prior experience supporting Sustainability operations to include GHG emissions calculations, LCA and materials management.
B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
+ None required.
C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
+ 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 golf sustainability project with on course tournament 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 working in sports venues and event operations strongly preferred.
+ Experience managing multiple customers and/or projects simultaneously preferred.
+ Experience with the development of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs preferred.
+ Experience with implementing GHG emissions reduction initiatives and researching mitigation technology preferred.
IV. Work Environment
Combination: This job operates in a mix between an office environment and plant/field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, etc.
The expected base pay range for this position across the U.S. is $63,100 - $92,575. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific salary offered to a successful candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a 10% annual target bonus.
Benefits
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply".
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
I. Job Summary
Environmentally motivated, customer service driven individual to manage comprehensive sustainability advisory projects for professional sports venues. This role will help conduct assessments, generate reports indicating overall sustainability baseline, create operations and management plans, and guide customer implementation and strategic planning. Customers include professional and collegiate sports venues. Projects involve organizational evaluations, program implementation, stakeholder engagement and training, emissions accounting and reduction strategies, supply chain analyses, material management programs, energy and water efficient resource utilization, and social sustainability programs, among other topics. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues.
Must reside in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houston, Nashville or Atlanta based on customer support needs. This position requires around 35% travel, typically two weeks at a time.
II. Essential Duties and 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 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.
+ This position will need to work on Central or Eastern Time to support departmental needs.
+ Other duties as assigned.
III. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job. Must live and work in the US.
A. Education and Experience
Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Sustainability, Architectural Design, Community Planning, Business or related field or High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant experience required.
Experience: Three (3) years of relevant work experience in project/business management (in addition to education requirement) and Environmental or services industry experience required.
Preferred experience: Prior experience supporting Sustainability operations to include GHG emissions calculations, LCA and materials management.
B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements
+ None required.
C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required
+ 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 golf sustainability project with on course tournament 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 working in sports venues and event operations strongly preferred.
+ Experience managing multiple customers and/or projects simultaneously preferred.
+ Experience with the development of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs preferred.
+ Experience with implementing GHG emissions reduction initiatives and researching mitigation technology preferred.
IV. Work Environment
Combination: This job operates in a mix between an office environment and plant/field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, etc.
The expected base pay range for this position across the U.S. is $63,100 - $92,575. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific salary offered to a successful candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a 10% annual target bonus.
Benefits
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply".
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
Source : WM
