Title: Environment Director Location: Kennewick, WA About Lamb Weston We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people. We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow. We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world! Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries. Job Description Summary Provides overall environmental program oversight and strategic direction for the platform. Works with Health, Safety, and Security to develop and implement the platform's EHSS Management System. Drives technical solutions and provides leadership and direction for environmental aspects of company operations. In partnership with the business, builds consensus for aspirational environmental goals, and champions the innovative thinking and approaches required to achieve those goals. Partners with the sustainability leader to promote and devise strategies to meet sustainable development program goals and objectives and achieve results. Oversees corporate environmental staff. Job Description Position Responsibilities People Development Responsibilities * Professional coaching/mentoring * Alignment/standardization * Trains and/or supports Plant Managers (PMs), and environmental staff * Works with PMs to develop facility environmental staff to next level * Takes on and/or assigns special projects to environmental staff * Directs environmental staff internal performance improvement opportunities Program Responsibilities * Represents LW internally & externally as ENV subject matter expert * Understands the state of the art, emerging trends and best practices in the environmental field. * Benchmarks LW's ENV performance and systems with other companies. Positions LW as an industry leader by engaging with key stakeholders externally and by speaking at conferences * Represents LW at professional/industry associations * Develop strategic objectives for LW's environmental program and helps guide the environmental portion of the EHSS Journey Map * Environmental Management System (EMS) oversight: * Develops LW corporate policies/stds (expectations) * Keeper and maintainers of corporate ENV stds/tools/policies * Facilitates and oversees ENV audit process * Monitors & communicates impending regulatory changes; leverages governmental affairs and legal support, as necessary * Oversees and maintains the platform-wide ENV risk register * Develop and communicate proactive ENV KPIs * Analyzes environmental data to identify trends and areas of potential risk reduction. Prepares periodic reports / dashboards summarizing platform environmental performance * Provides overall direction for ENV performance * Analyzes ENV data/info to identify trends & potential areas for risk reduction * Implements ENV management software * Develops and supports links between Environmental, Health/Safety and Security Functions * Retains/project manages ENV consultants across the bus