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Lead the development and execution of a risk-based environmental compliance strategy across global d Industrial Solutions manufacturing sites. Provide strategic direction, technical expertise, and compliance assurance to ensure environmental obligations are understood and met, significant risks are proactively identified and reduced, and effective systems are sustained. Partner with site EHS, Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Legal, Corporate Environmental, and segment leadership to embed environmental compliance into operational planning, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Site leadership remains accountable for day-to-day operational compliance; this role provides segment-level strategy, technical oversight, governance, management system development, policy adaptation, verification, and escalation to enable consistent performance across the assigned sites.
Key Responsibilities
Environmental Strategy and Risk Reduction
- Develop and execute a multi-year environmental compliance strategy and annual priorities aligned with business operations, regulatory exposure, and significant environmental risks.
- Assess the environmental risk profile across sites; prioritize resources and initiatives based on potential regulatory, operational, and environmental consequences.
- Integrate environmental requirements into business planning and management of change for new equipment, processes, chemicals, capacity expansions, and facility modifications.
- Develop and deploy environmental management systems and governance.
- Identify emerging regulatory requirements and translate them into practical implementation plans, standards, and site actions.
Regulatory Compliance and Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership on environmental permitting/licensing, including applicability, inventories, calculations, permit applications/renewals/modifications, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting.
- Oversee compliance programs for hazardous and non-hazardous waste, including characterization, generator status, storage, labeling, transportation, disposal, manifests, and vendor oversight.
- Provide technical oversight for wastewater/stormwater/drinking water permits, sampling, discharge limits, treatment performance, inspections, reporting, and unauthorized discharge investigations.
- Guide site programs for spill prevention and response, chemical management, storage tanks, environmental releases, and emergency response.
- Ensure a process exists to periodically reconcile permits, registrations, and authorizations with actual equipment, materials, processes, emissions, discharges, production volumes, and operating conditions.
- Provide oversight and technical guidance on required government mandated reports as required by law.
Other Key Responsibilities
Assurance and Incident Management
- Lead a risk-based environmental compliance assurance approach incorporating legal compliance audits, site reviews, self-assessments, critical-obligation verification, and follow-up on significant findings.
- Provide oversight of environmental incidents, releases, permit deviations, exceedances, and Notices of Violation; support timely notification, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and prevention of recurrence.
- Validate the completeness and accuracy of significant environmental data, calculations, regulatory submissions, and supporting records.
- Track high-risk and overdue corrective actions, verify effectiveness of significant controls, and escalate material compliance risks to appropriate leadership.
- Create a site recovery program for at-risk/high risk locations.
Systems, Standardization and Continuous Improvement
- Develop and sustain common environmental compliance tools, procedures, permit registers, obligation matrices, compliance calendars, dashboards, and technical guidance.
- Use Benchmark Gensuite and other approved digital tools to improve compliance visibility, action tracking, reporting quality, and consistency across sites.
- Apply data analytics and appropriately governed AI-enabled solutions to identify trends, simplify administrative work, and support earlier risk identification.
- Analyze findings, incidents, regulatory events, and site performance to identify systemic issues and deploy scalable preventive improvements and best practices.
- Coordinate technical performance of consultants, laboratories, waste vendors, and other environmental service providers.
Leadership, Governance and Performance
- Partner with Corporate Environmental, legal, site and business leaders to clarify environmental responsibilities, build capability, and integrate compliance into routine operating reviews.
- Establish and monitor meaningful indicators covering critical obligations, permit deviations, audit findings, corrective-action timeliness and effectiveness, and significant environmental events.
- Provide clear, risk-based updates and recommendations to segment EHS and business leadership, including progress against strategic priorities.
- Coach and influence cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority; share lessons learned and effective practices across sites.
- Assist in developing training programs to enhance capability and compliance in IS BU sites.
Job Requirements
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of eight years of progressive environmental compliance experience, preferably in manufacturing or industrial operations, including multi-site responsibilities.
- Demonstrated expertise across multiple environmental regulatory programs, particularly air emissions and permitting, waste, wastewater/stormwater, chemical management, spill prevention, and regulatory reporting.
- Ability to independently interpret regulations and permit conditions, assess applicability, identify compliance gaps, and implement practical, risk-based solutions.
- Experience developing compliance strategies, leading cross-functional initiatives, conducting assurance activities, and influencing site and business leadership.
- Working knowledge of ISO 14001, environmental management systems, digital compliance platforms, data analytics, and practical AI applications.
- Strong analytical, communication, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills; able to set priorities and execute with limited supervision.
- Professional certifications such as CHMM, PE, QEP, REM, or local equivalent preferred.
- Ability to travel to assigned manufacturing sites as business needs require.
Measures of Success
A clear and executed environmental compliance strategy; timely identification and reduction of significant environmental risks; reliable regulatory obligation and permit management; effective closure of high-risk findings; fewer repeat compliance issues; accurate reporting; and demonstrable improvements in site capability and compliance assurance.
Competencies
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $148,400 – $190,000 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
- Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
- Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
- A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.
Job Locations:
680 E. Swedesford Road
Suite 100 and 200
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
United States
Lead the development and execution of a risk-based environmental compliance strategy across global d Industrial Solutions manufacturing sites. Provide strategic direction, technical expertise, and compliance assurance to ensure environmental obligations are understood and met, significant risks are proactively identified and reduced, and effective systems are sustained. Partner with site EHS, Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Legal, Corporate Environmental, and segment leadership to embed environmental compliance into operational planning, decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Site leadership remains accountable for day-to-day operational compliance; this role provides segment-level strategy, technical oversight, governance, management system development, policy adaptation, verification, and escalation to enable consistent performance across the assigned sites.
Key Responsibilities
Environmental Strategy and Risk Reduction
- Develop and execute a multi-year environmental compliance strategy and annual priorities aligned with business operations, regulatory exposure, and significant environmental risks.
- Assess the environmental risk profile across sites; prioritize resources and initiatives based on potential regulatory, operational, and environmental consequences.
- Integrate environmental requirements into business planning and management of change for new equipment, processes, chemicals, capacity expansions, and facility modifications.
- Develop and deploy environmental management systems and governance.
- Identify emerging regulatory requirements and translate them into practical implementation plans, standards, and site actions.
Regulatory Compliance and Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership on environmental permitting/licensing, including applicability, inventories, calculations, permit applications/renewals/modifications, monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting.
- Oversee compliance programs for hazardous and non-hazardous waste, including characterization, generator status, storage, labeling, transportation, disposal, manifests, and vendor oversight.
- Provide technical oversight for wastewater/stormwater/drinking water permits, sampling, discharge limits, treatment performance, inspections, reporting, and unauthorized discharge investigations.
- Guide site programs for spill prevention and response, chemical management, storage tanks, environmental releases, and emergency response.
- Ensure a process exists to periodically reconcile permits, registrations, and authorizations with actual equipment, materials, processes, emissions, discharges, production volumes, and operating conditions.
- Provide oversight and technical guidance on required government mandated reports as required by law.
Other Key Responsibilities
Assurance and Incident Management
- Lead a risk-based environmental compliance assurance approach incorporating legal compliance audits, site reviews, self-assessments, critical-obligation verification, and follow-up on significant findings.
- Provide oversight of environmental incidents, releases, permit deviations, exceedances, and Notices of Violation; support timely notification, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and prevention of recurrence.
- Validate the completeness and accuracy of significant environmental data, calculations, regulatory submissions, and supporting records.
- Track high-risk and overdue corrective actions, verify effectiveness of significant controls, and escalate material compliance risks to appropriate leadership.
- Create a site recovery program for at-risk/high risk locations.
Systems, Standardization and Continuous Improvement
- Develop and sustain common environmental compliance tools, procedures, permit registers, obligation matrices, compliance calendars, dashboards, and technical guidance.
- Use Benchmark Gensuite and other approved digital tools to improve compliance visibility, action tracking, reporting quality, and consistency across sites.
- Apply data analytics and appropriately governed AI-enabled solutions to identify trends, simplify administrative work, and support earlier risk identification.
- Analyze findings, incidents, regulatory events, and site performance to identify systemic issues and deploy scalable preventive improvements and best practices.
- Coordinate technical performance of consultants, laboratories, waste vendors, and other environmental service providers.
Leadership, Governance and Performance
- Partner with Corporate Environmental, legal, site and business leaders to clarify environmental responsibilities, build capability, and integrate compliance into routine operating reviews.
- Establish and monitor meaningful indicators covering critical obligations, permit deviations, audit findings, corrective-action timeliness and effectiveness, and significant environmental events.
- Provide clear, risk-based updates and recommendations to segment EHS and business leadership, including progress against strategic priorities.
- Coach and influence cross-functional teams without relying on direct reporting authority; share lessons learned and effective practices across sites.
- Assist in developing training programs to enhance capability and compliance in IS BU sites.
Job Requirements
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of eight years of progressive environmental compliance experience, preferably in manufacturing or industrial operations, including multi-site responsibilities.
- Demonstrated expertise across multiple environmental regulatory programs, particularly air emissions and permitting, waste, wastewater/stormwater, chemical management, spill prevention, and regulatory reporting.
- Ability to independently interpret regulations and permit conditions, assess applicability, identify compliance gaps, and implement practical, risk-based solutions.
- Experience developing compliance strategies, leading cross-functional initiatives, conducting assurance activities, and influencing site and business leadership.
- Working knowledge of ISO 14001, environmental management systems, digital compliance platforms, data analytics, and practical AI applications.
- Strong analytical, communication, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills; able to set priorities and execute with limited supervision.
- Professional certifications such as CHMM, PE, QEP, REM, or local equivalent preferred.
- Ability to travel to assigned manufacturing sites as business needs require.
Measures of Success
A clear and executed environmental compliance strategy; timely identification and reduction of significant environmental risks; reliable regulatory obligation and permit management; effective closure of high-risk findings; fewer repeat compliance issues; accurate reporting; and demonstrable improvements in site capability and compliance assurance.
Competencies
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $148,400 – $190,000 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
- Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
- Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
- A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.
Job Locations:
680 E. Swedesford Road
Suite 100 and 200
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
United States
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote environmental compliance manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, or a related technical field
- Working knowledge of EPA regulations including Clean Air Act and RCRA requirements
- Experience preparing and managing environmental permits at federal or state level
- Proficiency with environmental management systems such as ISO 14001 or LIMS platforms
- CHMM, CEM, or 40-Hour HAZWOPER certification preferred or required
- Demonstrated experience conducting internal audits and managing regulatory agency inspections
Tips for Your Remote Environmental Compliance Manager Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote environmental compliance manager openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through unrelated listings.
Demonstrate async regulatory communication skills
Remote environmental compliance managers are expected to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear written guidance for distributed teams. Include writing samples or documented audit summaries in your application materials to show you can communicate compliance expectations without real-time conversation.
Highlight remote-ready compliance tools in your resume
Name the specific platforms you use, such as document management systems, e-signature tools, environmental health and safety software, and virtual meeting platforms. Remote hiring managers screen for candidates who won't need onboarding time to get up to speed on distributed workflows.
Prepare for scenario-based remote interviews
Remote employers often test how you'd handle a compliance deadline or a regulatory discrepancy without in-person backup. Practice walking through a real situation where you identified a gap, communicated it in writing, and resolved it independently, since that mirrors the actual remote role.
Remote Environmental Compliance Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote environmental compliance manager job?
Target companies that already run distributed compliance teams, such as environmental consulting firms, energy companies with multi-site operations, and government contractors with national portfolios. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, precise written communication, and the ability to manage regulatory deadlines without in-person oversight. Fluency with document management systems, e-signature workflows, and virtual audit tools gives candidates a clear edge over applicants who only list field experience.
Which companies hire remote environmental compliance managers?
Remote environmental compliance manager roles are posted by Arclin, GAI Consultants, and Sound Transit and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring tends to concentrate at environmental consulting firms, energy and utilities companies, and government contractors that manage compliance obligations across multiple locations and need managers who can operate independently from any location.
Can you get a remote environmental compliance manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one without on-site mentorship. Environmental consulting firms and compliance software companies occasionally hire junior remote coordinators. Showing completed environmental audits, regulatory research projects, or relevant certifications like CHMM or NEPA coursework can substitute for direct job experience and open doors to those roles.
Do you need a degree for remote environmental compliance manager jobs?
Usually, but the field the degree is in matters more than the credential itself. Most remote employers expect a background in environmental science, engineering, or a related discipline. That said, candidates who demonstrate hands-on regulatory knowledge, a history of successful audits, or professional certifications can offset a non-traditional academic background, especially at consulting firms that weight practical results.
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