Sustainability Manager (Energy/Mining)
industrial_energy_operations › Sustainability (Energy / Mining) · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages a team responsible for environmental compliance, community engagement, and sustainability initiatives across energy or mining operations.
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$120,351 USD
▲ +40.6% vs M1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Manages a team responsible for environmental compliance, community engagement, and sustainability initiatives across energy or mining operations. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Lead the sustainability/energy reporting function for a business unit or set of sites, responsible for operations and budgets covering audit programs, data systems, and framework submissions
- Evaluate diverse sustainability and energy-performance trends across sites to shape the department's approach to reducing environmental footprint and resource consumption
- Set and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for energy efficiency and sustainability targets at the department level, holding teams accountable for progress
- Manage a team of specialists overseeing the energy management strategy for assigned operations, integrating site audit findings into a coherent improvement plan
- Own the department's annual multi-framework submission calendar (TSM, GISTM, ICMM), ensuring engagement with site leadership and external partners produces defensible, on-time evidence packages
- Knowledge applied
- Applies broad functional knowledge to evaluate sustainability and energy trends across sites and shape departmental audit and reporting approaches.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses diverse issues requiring trend evaluation across sites; sets department KPIs and owns the annual submission calendar.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads functional teams and coordinates with site leadership and external partners on framework alignment.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ years managing sustainability/energy professionals and budgets.
Skills at this level
- Reporting frameworks knowledge
- — Directs alignment of sustainability and responsible-mining reporting to standards and frameworks such as GRI, SASB, ICMM principles, TSM, GISTM, and TCFD/TNFD.
- Sustainability data systems and reporting workflows
- — Manages sustainability data reporting or management systems (e.g., Intelex), including data collection, validation, and reporting workflows that feed framework submissions.
- Energy audits and efficiency programs
- — Oversees energy audits that analyze usage patterns and recommend technologies and practices leading to resource savings and cost reductions across sites.
- Energy forecasting modeling
- — Applies statistical and financial models for energy forecasting and comprehensive data analysis to support sustainability planning.
- Sustainability KPI setting and tracking
- — Sets and tracks key performance indicators to measure progress toward energy efficiency and sustainability targets at department and division level.
- Sustainability strategy integration
- — Embeds sustainability principles into corporate and operational strategies, reducing the environmental footprint of operations while enabling sustainable growth through continuous analysis and planning.
- Stakeholder engagement
- — Engages employees, customers, and regulators to raise awareness about sustainability goals and achievements and to secure alignment on framework commitments.
- Regulatory compliance and risk management
- — Ensures compliance with environmental regulations and proactively identifies and implements changes responding to upcoming sustainability risks and opportunities.
- Data analysis for footprint reduction
- — Uses data analysis tools and sustainability metrics to identify opportunities for reducing waste, energy use, and carbon footprint.
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