Air Compliance Manager

Excellence. Pride. Integrity. Compassion. Trust. Are you ready to plant your career in a place where words like these serve as the foundation for doing business every day? At Michigan Sugar, our purpose is Making Life Sweeter, and our mission is Creating Growth and Opportunity.

Michigan Sugar Company has an immediate full-time opportunity for a Air Compliance Manager, located at the Corporate Office in Bay City, Michigan.

Job Summary:

The Manager of Air Compliance at Michigan Sugar Company will lead and ensure environmental air compliance for the Company including monitoring and auditing for environmental air compliance; managing permits and the permitting process; and training and mentoring all levels of employees on environmental air compliance. The Manager of Air Compliance works with the Director of Environmental and Manager of Water/Wastewater Compliance as the contact for all environmental compliance matters. The Manager of Air Compliance develops policies, procedures and conducts regular environmental air inspections.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assess business impacts of new and pending environmental regulations and legislation as they may apply across the Company. This would include the Clean Air Act..
• Support plant personnel in environmental permitting preparation, operating compliance and longer-term operational strategies with a direct reporting line to Corporate Management
• Represent the company through interactions with regulatory agencies
• Develop strategy, budgets and schedules for implementation or management of all permitting and compliance programs.
• Develop environmental policies, including setting and tracking of targets, and work with management on the implementation of the policies
• Develop and implement tools to track and support compliance including completing and filing all required governmental reporting.
• Conduct environmental audits and inspections of facilities.
• Provide compliance summaries for legal, financial and insurance purposes.
• Represent the Company on environmental and industry committees including those focused on regulatory changes and environmental legal issues.
• Support capital projects for permitting including budgetary estimates.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as directed.
  
  

Position Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Environmental Engineering or Science. A related degree in Science, e.g., Chemistry or Biology, may be considered with relevant work experience.
• Minimum 8 years of regulatory policy and regulatory compliance including air permitting (Title V permit experience preferred) along with a minimum of 5 years’ supervisory experience required.
• Excellent organizational skills and strong communications/interpersonal skills required.
• Professional licensing or other recognized environmental certification preferred.
• Knowledge of the sugar industry a plus.
  
  

Key Competencies:

• Ability to concisely summarize complex environmental, legislative and legal issues.
• Strong analytical skills including project and data management.
• Strong attention to detail and desire to standardize environmental compliance operations.
• Demonstrated ability to form meaningful partnerships with various business and agency leaders.
• Excellent communication skills including conflict resolutions skills.
• Excellent training and presentation skills, particularly for executive-level and professional groups.
• Excellent time management skills.
  
  

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by staff assigned to this position. The above statements are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills that may be required. All staff may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities as needed.

Michigan Sugar Company offers competitive salary, opportunity for professional growth, and provides excellent medical insurance 100% company paid. A comprehensive benefits package includes: dental and life insurances, 401k match, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave and more. To learn more visit www.michigansugar.com .

Michigan Sugar Company was founded in 1906 when six smaller sugar companies merged their operations. In 2002, Michigan Sugar Company became a grower-owned cooperative and in 2004, it merged with Monitor Sugar Company to form the company that exists today.

Michigan Sugar Company is headquartered in Bay City and has sugar beet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Its nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugar beets each year in 20 Michigan counties, as well as Ontario, Canada. Those beets are sliced at the factories and turned into about 1.3 billion pounds of sugar annually.

That sugar is sold to industrial, commercial and retail customers under the Pioneer and Big Chief brands.

Michigan Sugar Company has 930 year-round employees and an additional 1,100 seasonal workers. It is the No. 1 employer in Huron County, the No. 2 employer in Bay and Sanilac counties and the No. 3 employer in Tuscola County. The company’s annual payroll is more than $65 million and its annual local economic impact is about $500 million.

Michigan Sugar Company is the third largest of eight sugar beet processing companies in the United States and Michigan is one of 11 states where sugar beets are grown in the country.

Michigan Sugar Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer