Sustainability Consultant - S&E

•I. Job Summary•Environmentally motivated, customer service driven individual to manage comprehensive sustainability advisory projects for professional sports venues and events. 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 and events. 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, green building techniques, and social sustainability programs, among other topics. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues. Maintains pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues. •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 and environmental impact 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 reside in the Western US and within one hour of a major airport. 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:

+ 3 years of relevant work experience in project/business management (in addition to education requirement) and Environmental or services industry experience required. + Experience with sustainability risk and management frameworks, sport-specific or otherwise strongly preferred. + Experience managing venue-based sustainability projects with sports and entertainment event logistics support strongly preferred. + Experience with conducting a greenhouse gas emissions inventory and executing mitigation initiatives, organizational advisory services, and materials management 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. + Familiarity with venue and event assessment tools including ISO 20121, TRUE, LEED, Well, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge, Green Globes, ENERGY STAR, Council for Responsible Sport B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements + None required. C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required + Knowledge of sustainability trends + Computer and tech savvy - must be adaptable to new programs and systems + High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite + Ability to travel up to 35%, typically two weeks at a time + Ability to attend after-hours calls with the offshore team + Must be available to work standard business hours, as well as be available to work non-standard hours in case of emergency (natural disasters, power outages, etc.) •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, copy machines, etc. The expected base pay range for this position across the U.S. is $71,190.00 - $85,0000 . 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. •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 "

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