**General Responsibilities**
* Work with site leadership to establish environmental business goals for the site.
* Function as a subject matter contact for a selected topic for the region.
* Communicate environmental requirements to site leadership to ensure their understanding and support.
* Actively resolve environmental issues with internal constituencies and elevate issues to the supervisor level if the issues become problematic and persistent.
* Interface with other regional members, departments, divisions/groups, suppliers, and/or other customers.
* Actively participate in site meetings, where appropriate to support teamwork and compliance.
* Where necessary, supervise or guide the activities of hourly employees in environmental operations.
* Conduct and/or arrange required environmental training for hourly and salaried personnel.
* Gather data, analyze, interpret, and prepare technical reports for site leadership.
* Communicate to site leadership environmental performance, utilizing plant scorecards and business plan deployment tools.
* Regularly exchange information with others within the plant staff, Global Facilities, GM Legal, and other GM locations.
* Interface with other regional members and actively participate in regional meetings.
* Support and oversee environmental purchased services, Resource Management, Chemical Management, Laboratory Sampling, etc.
* Serve as the environmental member of the site Chemical Control Committee and conduct environmental reviews and sign off on all new chemicals proposed for use at the facility, as appropriate.
* Ensure that GM Legal Staff and Environmental Regional HQ are involved with all written and verbal environmental communication with regulatory authorities and community members.
* Support headquarters and corporate data needs, including surveys, plant profiles, websites, etc.
* Interface with HQ activities and meetings where appropriate, including those facilitated by Facility Environmental Support (FES), Permitting and Remediation as required to ensure common systems and sharing of lessons learned.
* Interface with GM Audit Services (GMAS) and GM Legal Staff, as required.
* Meet with site leadership (including Plant Manager, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, FAM, etc.) as often as necessary to ensure compliance and customer satisfaction.
* Support and assist (where necessary) plant cross-functional activities to ensure achievement of common goals and objectives.
* Support or lead the site's Environmental Management System (EMS) to maintain ISO 14001 conformance.
* Contact plant communication coordinator when confronted with external media inquiries.
**Regional/HQ/Corporate Requirements**
* Establish and verify site practices for conformance to the GM Environmental Performance Criteria.
* Utilize and maintain an Environmental Calendar to ensure timely conformance with all site environmental requirements.
* Assist in maintaining cost controls, and drive cost savings initiatives.
* Provide oversight of contracted services (Resource and Chemical Management Program, GM Regulatory Reporting Programs, etc.), and validate services to contract provisions.
* Identify specific Plant needs for the Resource Management and Chemical Management program, and assist in writing and review of bid specifications.
* Establish performance goals for contract services, and monitor performance to targets.
* Manage site-specific activities that impact the GECS budget, e.g., RM Contract, Lab Contract, etc.
* Perform layered audits regularly
* Understand the GM Global Manufacturing System principles and integrate environmental needs into this system where feasible.
* Actively participate in Regional and HQ Environmental meetings, and associated Subject Matter Expert/Leader/Contact activities.
* Identify and promote actions to achieve GM Sustainability Goals and Targets
**Projects**
* Initiate and implement environmental projects and programs
* Assist and/or prepare specifications and/or design drawings to implement environmental projects and meet schedules as required.
* Coordinate activities to ensure appropriate interface with the project customer group.
* Conduct Environmental Review and Sign off on facility projects and equipment removal projects at facility.