Description:
Are you inspired by challenging the status quo? Do you thrive in collaborative environments that drive results? If so, Gates could be for you.Gates is a leading manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. We push the boundaries of material science to engineer solutions that continually exceed customer expectations.
Let's simplify it, think belts and hoses. Found in motorcycles, conveyor belts, cars, tractors, blenders, vacuum cleaners, bicycles, & 3D printers just to name a few. Because why not do it all?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Compliance & Risk Management: Advising on environmental compliance, permitting, and incident response related to safety and environmental regulations.
- Litigation & Negotiations: Managing complex environmental litigation, enforcement actions, and negotiations with government agencies.
- Corporate Support: Providing legal advice on transactional matters, sustainability, and environmental due diligence.
- Provide extensive environmental regulatory, permitting, technical guidance, and support for topics including but not limited to:
- Product/chemicals regulations, standards & abatement (Packaging, REACH, RoHS, PFAS, GADSL, PCBs, asbestos, lead, etc.)
- Air & greenhouse gas emissions
- Wastewater and storm water
- Solid and hazardous waste, reuse & recycling
- Environmental marketing
- Life cycle assessment & carbon footprint
- Pollution prevention & resource conservation
- Storage tank management
- HSE Management Systems (ISO 14001, 14040, 14044. 45001, 50001, etc.)
- Assess, inform and collaborate with internal stakeholders to minimize impact of environmental regulations to business, operations, products, and commercial mark
- Advise on environmental clauses in agreements or conditions for business and property transactions
- Support communications and negotiations with federal, state, and local environmental agencies around the world in collaboration with regional HSE teams
- Facilitate audit program to achieve compliance and reasonable assurance
- Lead site investigations, remediation strategies, and cost control for remediation portfolio
- Provide technical support and data for environmental reserves and reporting (10K, Sustainability Report, CSRD, etc.)
- Manage environmental department invoice processing & accruals
- Requires depth and breadth of expertise in specialized area
- Considered a company subject matter expert in their particular discipline
- Incorporates understanding of business objectives and strategies in recommending functional goals and operating plans
- Leads projects with notable risk and complexity
- Decision making involves researching, analyzing and evaluating data and using judgment in applying professional expertise
- Anticipates business, vendor and/or regulatory changes; recommends product, process or service improvements
- Communicates complex concepts, anticipates potential objections and persuades senior executives, to adopt a different point of view
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Provides technical leadership and consultation to management and peers
- 1-2 direct reports
Requirements and Preferred Skills
- 5+ years of experience in environmental law, regulatory compliance, and enforcement.
- Education: A Juris Doctor (JD) degree is required.
- Licensure: Active license to practice law in the U.S., with a strong preference for admission to the Colorado Bar or eligibility to waive into it.
- Areas of Expertise: Specific experience in Clean Air Act compliance, hazardous waste regulations, remediation, and permitting is highly sought after.
- Skills: Strong advocacy, project management, and negotiation skills, along with the ability to manage external counsel.
- 25-30% travel allotment, both domestic and international
- Must be legally authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship
