Remote Environmental Leader: Hazardous Waste & DG Compliance

GE Aerospace; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 157,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Aerospace seeks an Environmental Program Leader to drive hazardous waste and dangerous goods compliance across the enterprise. This senior role shapes strategy, standardizes processes, and partners across sites to improve environmental performance and safe operations.

The position requires deep technical expertise, strong business judgment, and the ability to translate complex regulations into practical, scalable controls. Travel up to 30% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in environmental compliance, hazardous waste, dangerous goods, or related EHS disciplines.
• Knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to environmental operations in GE Aerospace's geographic regions.
• Experience working with complex dangerous goods and hazardous waste regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise direction for hazardous waste and dangerous goods compliance, including goals for the EHS function.
• Develop, maintain, and improve enterprise standard work for waste characterization, container management, labeling, storage, inspection, manifesting, and vendor qualification.
• Provide technical environmental support and compliance solutions to GE Aerospace sites on hazardous waste and dangerous goods requirements.
• Monitor environmental programs for compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and propose policies and improvement initiatives.
• Represent GE Aerospace with governmental environmental agencies and trade associations for regulatory interpretation and alignment.
• Track environmental performance metrics and drive actions to improve compliance and operating performance.
• Prepare comments on proposed environmental regulations and assess business impacts.
• Support sites with waste determinations, documentation, analytical methods, and compliance execution.
• Participate in audits and support audit readiness, inspection response, CAPA development, and closure verification.
• Provide governance for dangerous goods/hazmat transportation including classification, packaging, labeling, shipping papers, and training controls.
• Review trends from incidents, near misses, shipment errors, permit events, and vendor performance to identify risks and actions.
• Lead training and coaching for site EHS operations on common failure modes and controls.
• Partner with site EHS, legal, operations, quality, and logistics to interpret requirements and implement practical controls.
• Estimated travel required is about 30%

Skills

Environmental compliance

Hazardous waste

Dangerous goods

Regulatory knowledge

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

GE Aerospace seeks an Environmental Program Leader to drive hazardous waste and dangerous goods compliance across the enterprise. This senior role shapes strategy, standardizes processes, and partners across sites to improve environmental performance and safe operations.

The position requires deep technical expertise, strong business judgment, and the ability to translate complex regulations into practical, scalable controls. Travel up to 30% is expected.