Environmental Liability Project Manager - Europe

Nouryon Functional Chemicals AB; Västra Götalands län; On-site; SEK 992,501 - 1,433,612; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Reduced hours

Health care allowance

Lunch allowance

Job summary

Nouryon seeks an Environmental Liability Project Manager – Europe to lead and coordinate environmental investigations and remediation projects across Europe, ensuring regulatory compliance and responsible handling of liabilities. You will contribute to financial planning through environmental reserves and long-term strategy within the Environmental Liability Management team.

The role involves managing impaired sites, engaging with regulators, stakeholders, and internal functions, and driving

Qualifications

• Academic degree in science or engineering.
• Extensive experience in process, pharma, mining or oil industry or global technical consulting.
• Project management experience covering technical, financial and legal aspects.
• Experience across multiple countries and regulatory authorities in Europe.
• Fluent in English and Swedish or Dutch; drivers license.

Responsibilities

• Manage impaired sites and environmental liabilities across Nouryon's European portfolio, ensuring compliance, cost control and protection of company reputation.
• Monitor and control investigation/remediation costs, including invoice approvals and liability provisioning.
• Manage consultants and contractors, including scoping, performance follow-up, cost control and deliverable reviews.
• Maintain relationships with Nouryon sites, regulators and key stakeholders.
• Contribute to remediation strategies with safety, budgeting and cross-functional coordination.
• Support improvement of ELM procedures and guidelines.
• Assist in environmental due diligence for M&A activities as needed.
• Travel for site visits (Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France) up to ~20%.

Skills

Project management

Cross-country collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Fluent English

Swedish or Dutch language

Regulatory liaison

Education

Science or Engineering degree (MSc or equivalent)

Job description

About the job

In this exiting role you will manage, drive and coordinate environmental investigations and remediation projects across Europe, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and responsible handling of soil and groundwater contamination. You will play a key part in managing environmental risks from both a sustainability and business perspective, while supporting sound financial planning through environmental reserves and contributing to the long‑term strategy for managing environmental liabilities.

You will be a part of the Nouryon Environmental Liability Management team, which is a part of corporate legal, with highly skilled and dedicated colleagues and partners around the globe.

The role can be based in either Sweden Gothenburg or in the Netherlands, Amsterdam.

In your future role as Environmental Liability Project Manager - Europe you will

• Be responsible for managing impaired sites and environmental liabilities across Nouryon’s European portfolio, ensuring compliance, cost control, and protection of company reputation.
• Monitor and control investigation and remediation costs, including invoice approval and environmental liability provisioning.
• Manage consultants and contractors, including scope definition, performance follow‑up, cost control, and review of deliverables.
• Maintain relationships with Nouryon sites, regulatory authorities and key stakeholders.
• Support development of remediation strategies, including safety, budgeting, coordination with functions (Legal/Finance/HSE), and stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of ELM procedures and guidelines.
• Support M&A activities through environmental due diligence as needed.
• Travel as required for site visits (mainly Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France) and stakeholder engagement. Travel varies but can during periods be expected to be up to 20%.

We believe you bring

• Academic degree in science or engineering (e.g. MSc, master’s degree or equivalent in geology, chemistry, environmental science or similar)
• Extensive relevant experience from process, pharma, mining or oil industry and/or global technical consulting
• Project management experience of complex environmental matters from technical, financial and legal aspects
• Experience working across multiple countries (both technical and cultural contexts)
• Experience engaging with regulatory authorities in more than one European jurisdiction
• Fluent in English and either of Swedish or Dutch
• Drivers license

We believe you are a confident and decisive professional who can act with clarity and authority when needed. You build trust quickly, including with senior stakeholders, by communicating with credibility and sound judgement. You are skilled at building and maintaining strong relationships across functions and geographies, and you navigate complex situations with a structured and forward‑looking approach.

You can balance and integrate multiple perspectives—technical, legal, and financial—when making decisions, and you demonstrate strong cultural awareness when working in an international environment. At the same time, you are organized and proactive, with the ability to manage issues systematically and anticipate challenges ahead of time.

We offer you

At Nouryon, we provide a great job and friendly coworkers, plus benefits in addition to salary. Our collective agreement is with IKEM. Plus, we offer unilateral perks, such as bonus, reduced hours, health care allowance, lunch allowance, and more.

Productivity details

This is a permanent position on a full‑time basis, reporting to Henrik Eriksson, Global Environmental Liability Manager and based in Sweden, Gothenburg at our Nordic Business Center or in The Netherlands Amsterdam.

Contact

For additional information about the vacancy please contact hiring manager Henrik Eriksson, Global Environmental Liability Manager at [e-mail]