Director of Sustainability

Description

Build Your Career. Build America's Future.

Vulcan Materials Company is the nation's largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete.

When you join Vulcan, it's more than starting an exciting career - you get to make a difference for millions of people every day across the country.

When you join Vulcan, you join a dynamic culture in which career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded and diversity is valued.

No matter the role or the location across the country, every member of the Vulcan team lives through the Vulcan Way : doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.

About the Job :

• Drives Environmental Sustainability Performance : Manages environmental sustainability as a strategic and operational issue across functions, geographies and business segments to drive growth, differentiate Vulcan from others in the construction materials industry, maintain our social license to operate, earn support for expansion and greenfield initiatives and fulfill the reporting requirements of customer, supplier, governmental and non-governmental entities.
• Carries out Sustainability Program Management and Reporting : Tracks stakeholder expectations, drives enterprise-wide target and goal setting, develops strategies to address requirements, and manages reporting to various entities.

What You'll Do :

• Directs an enterprise-wide "One Vulcan, Locally Led" approach to embedding environmental sustainability into the strategic disciplines (VWS, VWO) and other business functions.
• Develops awareness and functional literacy around environmental sustainability expectations and best practices. Partners with operational support, customer excellence and functional leaders in driving environmental sustainability knowledge and practices into culture, business strategy and daily operations.
• Facilitates alignment and ensures coordination and consistent communication on environmental sustainability strategies, tactics and performance enterprise-wide.

Advises functions and divisions in developing risk-based, locally appropriate environmental sustainability strategies and executing against those strategies to produce reportable results.

• Partners with operational support, customer excellence and functional leaders to develop toolkits of highly-flexible, locally adaptable strategies and tactics to attain goals, targets and KPIs.
• Provides enterprise leadership on environmental sustainability issues (energy procurement and management, greenhouse gas emissions, air emissions other than GHG emissions, water resource management, land and biodiversity management, and product sustainability, cross-topical initiatives (e.

g. intersection of climate and biodiversity) emerging trends, standards, best practices, governance, reporting and measurement.

• Convenes and leads committees and working groups and facilitates conversations to surface opportunities and lead to decisions regarding environmental sustainability policy, program and performance.
• Leads processes to update environmental and social materiality assessments, goals and targets. Directs reporting and stakeholder outreach.

Ensures Vulcan's ratings and rankings with major third-party organizations, such as CDP, ISS, MSCI, S&P, Sustainalytics and Ecovadis reflect correct and complete information and are making progress toward targets.

• Coordinates development of internal policies related to ESG that are supportive of both business (financial) and non-financial goals.
• Hires and directs consulting resources to assist with program implementation.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For :

The successful candidate will have experience in directing and supporting aggregates operations. The role is responsible for establishing standards and systems to enable the business to meet its strategic goals for environmental sustainability.

This is a highly visible role working closely with key business and functional leaders across the entire footprint at both corporate and division levels requiring :

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with stakeholders of multiple levels within the company.

Ability to build relationships with team members that transcend a project.

• Excellence in development and delivery of presentations for lay audiences, with ability to distill and effectively communicate highly complex information to leaders across operations, sales and functional support teams.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams. Demonstrated ability to lead ad hoc teams and exert influence absent formal organizational structures.
• Ability to create a well-defined project plan, capturing business requirements and project scope, while sequencing activities and resources.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Knowledge of environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and reporting frameworks.
• Aggregates industry knowledge, particularly as relates to operations / production to products and their uses.
• Creative approach to identifying opportunities and solving problems in ways that generate profit and growth as well as meet sustainability objectives.
• Willingness to travel up to 75% of time.
• 10-15 years related experience.

What You'll Like About Us :

Great Company Culture. Our people share a competitive drive for excellence in an environment of trust, teamwork, open-mindedness, and communication.

Safe. The industry leader in health and safety standards. We are committed to creating a safe work environment and protecting all employees and customers.

Meaningful Work. What sets us apart is the work we do impacts our daily lives - and every employee contributes. Our aggregates produced are used to build roads, schools, hospitals, airports, and housing throughout the United States.

Health Benefits. Medical, Dental, and Vision programs, plus much more.

Rest and Relaxation. Paid vacation, personal floating days, and paid holidays.

Prepare for the Future. 401(k) with company match and contribution.

Training and Development. We see our development programs and helping our employees meet their goals as a key part of our business.

Vulcan Materials Company is committed to employing a diverse workforce. You will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

You also have the right to be free from discrimination for medical needs arising from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

Environmental

Primary Location

Alabama-Birmingham

Other Locations

Alabama

Organization

GM - CORPORATE

Schedule

Full-time

Job Posting

Apr 18, 2024, 1 : 42 : 23 PM