Senior Environmental Engineer

Kimberly-Clark; Beech Island (SC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimberly-Clark Beech Island Mill is seeking a Senior Environmental & Sustainability Engineer to lead the site’s E&S program, ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement for safe, profitable operations. You will own the E&S Management System, define risk reduction strategies, and drive ISO 14001:2026 readiness while coordinating with segment and global teams.

This role emphasizes data analysis, event investigations, training, and contractor stewardship to advance Sustainability 2030

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pulp & Paper Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of E&S experience in air permitting, Chemical management, SPCC, and SWPPP programs in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated management and leadership experience. Strong communication, collaboration and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the site is compliant with Kimberly-Clark and regulatory controls and requirements related to environmental matters.
• Take ownership of the relevant environmental and sustainability components within the site's E&S Management System and define risk reduction strategies.
• Lead the facility's effort to elevate the E&S operating model to align with ISO 14001:2026 release and drive program improvements.
• Embed K-C's E&S strategies and partner to drive execution across the site and global teams.
• Deliver Sustainability 2030 goals, including water use reduction, climate emissions reduction, and waste elimination.

Skills

Environmental engineering

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pulp & Paper Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, or equivalent

Job description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Summary of Position

To provide overall leadership for the Environmental and Sustainability systems at the manufacturing site in support of a safe and profitable operation that strives to continuously improve and reduce mill impact on the environment.

Scope

As an integral part of the Environment & Sustainability (E&S) team, the Site Senior Environmental & Sustainability Engineer assumes a leadership position, spearheading Kimberly-Clark’s (K-C) commitment to Better Care for a Better World. The position ensures that the facility is strategically aligned and operates in conformance with K-C E&S Standards and in compliance with local legal requirements.

Through influence without authority and/or direct reporting relationships, the position works collaboratively to identify and direct appropriate process and systems that elevate site program maturity, effectively manage risks and deliver continuous improvement in environmental and sustainability results. The Senior Engineer may lead a team of professionals to assist in delivering on accountabilities and reports to the Segment E&S Operations Leader.

In this role, you will:

1. Compliance Assurance:

• Ensure the site is compliant with K-C and regulatory controls and requirements related to environmental matters.
• Extensive knowledge of regulatory requirements of EPA (Clean Air Act), SCDES, and other federal and state agencies.
• EMOC review and documentation.
• Chemical inventory (SARA Reporting), working with Staff on new projects with air impacts.

2. E&S Management System Ownership:

• Take ownership of the relevant environmental and sustainability components within the site's E&S Management System.
• Identify environmental aspects, hazards, emerging requirements, etc., and verify that they are managed to acceptable levels of risk or impact.
• Define the environmental and sustainability risk reduction strategy for the site, lead implementation of the plan, and continuously assess the effectiveness of performance.

4. Implement & Manage ISO E&S management system:

• Lead the facility's effort to elevate the E&S operating model to align with ISO 14001:2026 release.
• Implement strategies and initiatives to continually improve the effectiveness of the E&S programs.

5. Strategic Alignment:

• Embed K-C's E&S strategies and partner to drive execution
• Lead the facility's initiatives to improve the maturity of environmental and sustainability programs.
• Collaborate with segment and global teams to ensure consistent application of E&S standards and best practices for environmental & sustainability.
• Drive facility E&S objectives through pipeline ideation & execution, CPC/Sustainability systems alignment, and calibration with plant & central teams.

6. Objective Setting:

• Deliver Sustainability 2030 goals (and create value) by pulling through best practices/technologies and incorporating into plans, KPIs, and budget. This includes water use reduction, climate emissions reduction, waste elimination, and chemicals of concern elimination.
• Define E&S objectives for the site and assess effectiveness of performance

7. Event Investigations:

• Lead environmental event investigations to ensure thorough root cause evaluations and verify the effective implementation of corrective/preventative actions.
• Verify the implementation of effective corrective and preventive actions to mitigate the recurrence of incidents.
• Escalate appropriately per the E&S escalation process

8. Training and Orientation:

• Ensure all employees undergo appropriate environmental and sustainability orientation and training programs.

9. Contractor Compliance:

• Ensure adherence of contractors to relevant K-C standards and E&S requirements specifically for environmental & sustainability matters.

10. Data Analysis and Reporting:

• Implement E&S rollouts of next generation digital, reporting and assurance within site to drive resource efficiency and effectiveness and build equity in K-C’s brands
• Utilize digital systems/platforms to conduct analysis of environmental and sustainability data. Applies procedures and controls to ensure data integrity.
• Technological Acumen: Leverage data and digital systems/platforms to improve decision-making and problem-solving. Address technological advancements, such as automation, as relevant to tasks/duties of the role.
• Provide insights and recommend improvement actions based on data analysis.
• Ensure procedures and controls are in place to verify the quality and completeness of data.

Beech Island Mill Accountabilities

Kimberly-Clark makes the essentials for a better life with well-known brands that matter every day – at home, school, work and on the go. Throughout our 148 years, we have challenged conventional wisdom to innovate products that better meet the needs of consumers. We have created new categories with top brands like Kleenex®, and redefined categories with Huggies® and U by Kotex®. While growing our $18+ billion global business, we help build careers through collaborative teams that push boundaries and endless opportunities to work with some of the world’s most recognized brands. Our 43,000 employees are changing the world for the better, too, generously giving back to communities and causes around the globe.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pulp & Paper Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, or equivalent.
• 5 plus years of E&S experience in air permitting, Chemical management, SPCC, and SWPPP programs in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated management and leadership experience. Strong communication, collaboration and influencing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Incumbent would possess or agree to obtain and maintain DOT/RCRA Training.