Environmental Compliance Manager (Cottage Grove, MN)*

3M; Cottage Grove (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

3M in Cottage Grove, MN seeks an Environmental Compliance Manager to lead environmental programs and regulatory efforts. You will drive compliant operations, partner with site leadership, and guide teams toward sustainable performance.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, strategic prioritization, and a strong focus on safety, quality, and environmental governance within a manufacturing environment. On-site presence is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, science, or environmental health and safety discipline.
• 3 years of environmental or environmental, health and safety experience in a private, public, government or military environment.
• 3 years of experience working in a chemical manufacturing environment and understanding of environmental compliance regulations, monitoring, reporting and EMS.
• 1 year of experience in a leadership and/or supervisory role.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.
• 5+ years of chemical manufacturing environment experience with regulatory compliance.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with federal, state, and local environmental regulatory agencies, including permitting, inspections, and regulatory interactions.
• Self-directed, detail oriented, prioritization and organizational skills.
• Analytical, leadership, project planning, program development and deployment skills.
• Master's degree or higher in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, science, or related EHS discipline.
• Applicable EHS certification(s) (CSP, CHMM, CIH, QEP, PE).

Responsibilities

• Provide environmental compliance leadership and direction in consultation with Cottage Grove leadership.
• Lead projects to ensure compliance with environmental requirements, tracking obligations, and closing actions.
• Set short- and long-term site environmental priorities and allocate resources.
• Manage site performance targets and coach salaried and hourly staff.
• Elevate site environmental culture through standard work, mentoring, and resource management.
• Ensure conformance to 3M environmental compliance expectations.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Environmental health and safety

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering or related field

Master's degree in environmental engineering or related field

Applicable EHS certifications (CSP, CHMM, CIH, QEP, PE)

Job description

Job Title

Environmental Compliance Manager

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it's equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

As an Environmental Compliance Manager , you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing environmental compliance and sustainability leadership and direction, in consultation with the leadership teams for the Cottage Grove location.
• Leading projects and teams to ensure compliance with all environmental requirements, including tracking compliance obligations, incident investigations, and closure of action plans.
• Setting short and long-term strategic direction, site environmental priorities, and assigning resources.
• Managing to site performance targets, coach, and lead salaried and hourly employees.
• Elevate and support site environmental culture through an expansion of standard work, employee engagement, mentoring and coaching, assuring effective and efficient resources (people and capital), and a pervasive, full compliance mindset.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable standards and regulations, and conformance to all 3M environmental compliance expectations.

Willingness to be on-call.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, science discipline, or other environmental health and safety discipline (i.e., industrial hygiene, public health, etc.) (completed and verified prior to start)
• Three (3) years of environmental or environmental, health and safety experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Three (3) years of experience working in a chemical manufacturing environment and understanding of environmental compliance regulations, monitoring, reporting and environmental management systems.
• One (1) year of experience in a leadership and/or supervisory role leading a team.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Five (5) or more years of experience in a leadership and/or supervisory role leading a team.
• Five (5) or more years of experience working in a chemical manufacturing environment and understanding environmental compliance regulations, monitoring, reporting, and environmental management systems.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work closely with all employees within the plant.
• Experience working with federal, state, and local environmental regulatory agencies, including compliance permitting, inspections, and routine regulatory interactions.
• Self-directed, detail oriented, good prioritization and organizational skills
• Analytical, leadership, project planning, program development and deployment skills
• Master's degree or higher in environmental engineering, chemical engineering, science discipline, or related environmental health and safety discipline (i.e. industrial hygiene, public health, etc.)
• Applicable EHS certification(s) (e.g., CSP, CHMM, CIH, QEP, PE)

Work location:

This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Cottage Grove, MN.

Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum).

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in