Director of Sustainability
industrial_energy_operations › Sustainability (Energy / Mining) · M5 — M5 — Senior Director · Management
Directs sustainability strategy and programs across energy or mining operations, leading managers responsible for community relations, environmental performance, and carbon reduction initiatives.
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$188,371 USD
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What this role is
Directs sustainability strategy and programs across energy or mining operations, leading managers responsible for community relations, environmental performance, and carbon reduction initiatives. At the Senior Director (M5) level, the role owns multiple functions or a large department, org-level trade-offs and investment, and drives multi-function results. Leads directors and managers.
What this level does
- Direct the organization-wide sustainability and energy strategy through department managers, with decisions that impact overall division or company operations and reputation
- Define the methods and standards by which complex org-wide sustainability issues—framework alignment, decarbonization, resource efficiency—are resolved across all sites
- Embed sustainability into corporate strategy at the division level, ensuring the business model itself drives reduction of environmental footprint alongside sustainable growth
- Influence executives and major external stakeholders (regulators, industry bodies, key customers) on sustainability positioning, framework adoption, and material risks
- Own division-level KPIs and the integrity of framework reporting, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations and steering the portfolio's response to emerging risks and opportunities
- Knowledge applied
- Defines org-wide methods for framework alignment, decarbonization, and resource efficiency; embeds sustainability into corporate strategy at division level.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves complex org-wide sustainability issues with division- or company-wide implications; defines standards others follow.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Influences executives and major external stakeholders (regulators, industry bodies, key customers) on key sustainability issues.
- Typical experience
- 10–12+ years, second-level management and sustainability strategy work.
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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