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Exelon is helping build a more affordable, reliable energy future for the communities we serve. We're looking for people who are ready to make a difference and work together to deliver the energy our customers count on every day.
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We know this work isn't easy. That's why we offer competitive compensation, incentives, excellent benefits and the opportunity to build a rewarding career. No matter your role, you will be part of a team that is committed to making a difference, improving how we work and delivering for the people who depend on us.
Are you on for the challenge? Primary Purpose
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITIONThe Director, Enterprise Environmental provides enterprise-wide strategic leadership, governance, and oversight for environmental strategy, compliance, performance, and risk management across Exelon's operating companies. The Director establishes enterprise environmental strategy, policies, standards, governance, performance expectations, and assurance processes to promote regulatory compliance, effectively manage environmental risk, strengthen operational performance, and advance continuous improvement across the enterprise. The Director serves as the enterprise functional leader and strategic advisor on environmental matters, partnering with operating company leadership and key enterprise functions to identify emerging risks, establish priorities, assess performance, and drive consistent and sustainable environmental practices. The role leads enterprise environmental governance across areas including air, water, waste management, PCB management, land use, remediation, biodiversity, resource stewardship, permitting and licensing, and other environmental priorities. The Director also partners with Sustainability and other enterprise stakeholders to align environmental performance, strategies, and reporting with broader corporate objectives. The Director oversees environmental management system integration and ensures regulatory and policy changes at the state, local, and federal levels are operationalized.
Primary Duties
PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Establish Enterprise Environmental Strategy & Governance. Establish and lead the enterprise environmental strategy, governance framework, policies, standards, and performance expectations across Exelon. Provide strategic direction for enterprise environmental compliance, risk management, remediation, resource stewardship, and continuous improvement. Lead the enterprise Environmental Management System and establish the governance necessary to support effective implementation across the operating companies. Establish common enterprise requirements and identify opportunities for standardization while recognizing legitimate regulatory, jurisdictional, and operational differences. Assess emerging environmental issues, regulations, risks, and business trends and translate them into enterprise strategies and priorities. Provide senior leadership with strategic guidance regarding significant environmental risks, performance issues, investments, and emerging concerns. (25%)
- Lead Environmental Compliance Assurance & Performance Oversight. Establish the enterprise environmental compliance assurance and assessment strategy and provide an independent view of core-function health across operating companies. Establish enterprise assessment methodologies, schedules, performance measures, controls, and reporting expectations. Oversee operating company environmental assessments, self-assessments, corrective-action programs, and performance reviews. Identify recurring or systemic performance gaps and work with operating company leadership to develop sustainable corrective strategies. Ensure environmental findings, risks, trends, and significant performance issues are appropriately elevated and communicated to senior leadership. Facilitate implementation and sharing of environmental best practices and lessons learned across the enterprise. (20%)
- Provide Enterprise Environmental Risk & Regulatory Leadership. Establish the enterprise approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and managing significant environmental risks. Provide enterprise leadership and technical direction across environmental compliance areas, including air, water, waste, PCB management, remediation, land use, biodiversity, recycling, and resource stewardship. Assess environmental regulatory developments and their potential impact across Exelon operations. Partner with operating companies and appropriate enterprise functions to develop strategies addressing significant or emerging environmental issues. Provide strategic guidance on complex environmental matters with potential operational, regulatory, financial, or reputational implications. Develop strong working relationships with applicable regulatory agencies and external stakeholders and represent enterprise environmental interests as appropriate. (20%)
- Lead Enterprise Performance Management & Continuous Improvement. Establish enterprise environmental performance indicators, scorecards, governance, and management-review processes. Evaluate environmental performance across operating companies and provide senior leadership with visibility into enterprise trends, risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities. Lead benchmarking to identify leading industry practices and opportunities to improve environmental performance. Sponsor cross-operating-company initiatives that strengthen environmental compliance, controls, performance, and efficiency. Drive implementation of best practices and lessons learned across the enterprise. Advance the use of data, analytics, technology, and standardized reporting to improve environmental performance visibility and decision-making. Track significant findings and actions identified through enterprise assessments and performance reviews. (15%)
- Partner on Sustainability & Environmental Stewardship. Serve as the primary interface between the enterprise Environmental function, operating company environmental organizations, and Sustainability on matters requiring environmental expertise or performance data. Partner with Sustainability on environmental strategies and long-term environmental priorities. Ensure accurate and consistent environmental performance information is available to support applicable enterprise reporting. Advance strategies related to resource stewardship, biodiversity, water, waste, recycling, carbon reduction, and other environmental priorities. Ensure operating company perspectives, performance, risks, and opportunities are appropriately incorporated into enterprise environmental and sustainability strategies. (10%)
- Drive Operating Company Alignment & Enterprise Environmental Capability. Lead enterprise Environmental peer teams, councils, and governance forums to strengthen cross-operating-company alignment and collaboration. Build strong partnerships with operating company key business functions. Facilitate sharing of expertise, lessons learned, leading practices, and solutions across the enterprise. Build consensus among operating companies regarding environmental strategies, standards, priorities, and improvement initiatives. Strengthen environmental organizational capability through knowledge sharing, professional development, benchmarking, and enterprise collaboration. Foster a high-performance culture centered on compliance, accountability, transparency, collaboration, continuous improvement, and environmental stewardship. (10%)
Job Scope
JOB SCOPE
Serves as the enterprise functional leader for Environmental, establishing strategy, governance, standards, performance expectations, and continuous improvement priorities across Exelon operating companies. Provides enterprise leadership and oversight while partnering with operating companies that maintain accountability for local environmental program execution. Leads enterprise environmental governance, peer teams, assessments, benchmarking, performance reviews, and cross-operating-company improvement initiatives. Establishes enterprise environmental performance measures and provides senior leadership visibility into significant risks, trends, gaps, and improvement priorities. Serves as a senior advisor on significant environmental regulatory, compliance, operational, and performance matters. Maintains frequent interaction with corporate executives, utility leadership, environmental leaders, regulatory agencies, and other internal and external stakeholders. Drives enterprise consistency and standardization where appropriate and facilitates the transfer of leading practices and lessons learned among operating companies. Provides strategic oversight of the enterprise Environmental Management System and environmental compliance-assurance framework. Partners with Sustainability to align environmental performance and environmental stewardship priorities with broader enterprise objectives. Leads and sponsors multi-OpCo environmental initiatives addressing enterprise risks and opportunities.
Minimum Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Science, Public Policy, Business, or a related discipline. Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in environmental compliance, environmental management, utility operations, sustainability, engineering, regulatory affairs, or a related field. Minimum of 5 years of management or organizational leadership experience. Demonstrated experience developing and implementing environmental strategies, governance frameworks, compliance programs, or environmental management systems. Strong knowledge of environmental regulations, compliance requirements, risk-management principles, and environmental management practices. Knowledge and experience with environmental management systems and ISO 14001. Experience interacting with environmental regulatory agencies. Demonstrated ability to assess complex environmental issues and translate technical, regulatory, and performance information into strategic business recommendations. Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional or multi-organizational initiatives. Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to balance regulatory compliance, risk, operational priorities, financial considerations, and stakeholder expectations. Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment within a complex matrixed organization. Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, strategic planning, change leadership, and decision-making capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Master's degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Law, Public Policy, Business, Sustainability, or a related discipline. Relevant professional certification or licensure. Significant electric or gas utility environmental experience. Experience leading environmental strategy or governance across multiple jurisdictions or operating companies. Experience developing and implementing enterprise environmental performance-improvement strategies. Experience with environmental management systems, compliance assurance, assessments, and performance management. Experience implementing technology, data-management, and analytical solutions supporting environmental programs. Demonstrated success influencing complex environmental matters across multiple business units and senior leadership teams.
Benefits
- Annual salary will vary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and other factors: $168,000.00/Yr. – $231,000.00/Yr. plus an additional $50K in Long Term Incentive Plan annually
- Annual Bonus for eligible positions: 30%
- 401(k) match and annual company contribution
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
- Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance and fitness reimbursement
- Referral bonus program
- And much more
Note: Exelon-sponsored compensation and benefit programs may vary or not apply based on length of service, job grade, job classification or represented status. Eligibility will be determined by the written plan or program documents.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Establish Enterprise Environmental Strategy & Governance. Establish and lead the enterprise environmental strategy, governance framework, policies, standards, and performance expectations across Exelon. Provide strategic direction for enterprise environmental compliance, risk management, remediation, resource stewardship, and continuous improvement. Lead the enterprise Environmental Management System and establish the governance necessary to support effective implementation across the operating companies. Establish common enterprise requirements and identify opportunities for standardization while recognizing legitimate regulatory, jurisdictional, and operational differences. Assess emerging environmental issues, regulations, risks, and business trends and translate them into enterprise strategies and priorities. Provide senior leadership with strategic guidance regarding significant environmental risks, performance issues, investments, and emerging concerns. (25%)
- Lead Environmental Compliance Assurance & Performance Oversight. Establish the enterprise environmental compliance assurance and assessment strategy and provide an independent view of core-function health across operating companies. Establish enterprise assessment methodologies, schedules, performance measures, controls, and reporting expectations. Oversee operating company environmental assessments, self-assessments, corrective-action programs, and performance reviews. Identify recurring or systemic performance gaps and work with operating company leadership to develop sustainable corrective strategies. Ensure environmental findings, risks, trends, and significant performance issues are appropriately elevated and communicated to senior leadership. Facilitate implementation and sharing of environmental best practices and lessons learned across the enterprise. (20%)
- Provide Enterprise Environmental Risk & Regulatory Leadership. Establish the enterprise approach to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and managing significant environmental risks. Provide enterprise leadership and technical direction across environmental compliance areas, including air, water, waste, PCB management, remediation, land use, biodiversity, recycling, and resource stewardship. Assess environmental regulatory developments and their potential impact across Exelon operations. Partner with operating companies and appropriate enterprise functions to develop strategies addressing significant or emerging environmental issues. Provide strategic guidance on complex environmental matters with potential operational, regulatory, financial, or reputational implications. Develop strong working relationships with applicable regulatory agencies and external stakeholders and represent enterprise environmental interests as appropriate. (20%)
- Lead Enterprise Performance Management & Continuous Improvement. Establish enterprise environmental performance indicators, scorecards, governance, and management-review processes. Evaluate environmental performance across operating companies and provide senior leadership with visibility into enterprise trends, risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities. Lead benchmarking to identify leading industry practices and opportunities to improve environmental performance. Sponsor cross-operating-company initiatives that strengthen environmental compliance, controls, performance, and efficiency. Drive implementation of best practices and lessons learned across the enterprise. Advance the use of data, analytics, technology, and standardized reporting to improve environmental performance visibility and decision-making. Track significant findings and actions identified through enterprise assessments and performance reviews. (15%)
- Partner on Sustainability & Environmental Stewardship. Serve as the primary interface between the enterprise Environmental function, operating company environmental organizations, and Sustainability on matters requiring environmental expertise or performance data. Partner with Sustainability on environmental strategies and long-term environmental priorities. Ensure accurate and consistent environmental performance information is available to support applicable enterprise reporting. Advance strategies related to resource stewardship, biodiversity, water, waste, recycling, carbon reduction, and other environmental priorities. Ensure operating company perspectives, performance, risks, and opportunities are appropriately incorporated into enterprise environmental and sustainability strategies. (10%)
- Drive Operating Company Alignment & Enterprise Environmental Capability. Lead enterprise Environmental peer teams, councils, and governance forums to strengthen cross-operating-company alignment and collaboration. Build strong partnerships with operating company key business functions. Facilitate sharing of expertise, lessons learned, leading practices, and solutions across the enterprise. Build consensus among operating companies regarding environmental strategies, standards, priorities, and improvement initiatives. Strengthen environmental organizational capability through knowledge sharing, professional development, benchmarking, and enterprise collaboration. Foster a high-performance culture centered on compliance, accountability, transparency, collaboration, continuous improvement, and environmental stewardship. (10%)
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Science, Public Policy, Business, or a related discipline. Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in environmental compliance, environmental management, utility operations, sustainability, engineering, regulatory affairs, or a related field. Minimum of 5 years of management or organizational leadership experience. Demonstrated experience developing and implementing environmental strategies, governance frameworks, compliance programs, or environmental management systems. Strong knowledge of environmental regulations, compliance requirements, risk-management principles, and environmental management practices. Knowledge and experience with environmental management systems and ISO 14001. Experience interacting with environmental regulatory agencies. Demonstrated ability to assess complex environmental issues and translate technical, regulatory, and performance information into strategic business recommendations. Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional or multi-organizational initiatives. Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to balance regulatory compliance, risk, operational priorities, financial considerations, and stakeholder expectations. Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment within a complex matrixed organization. Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, strategic planning, change leadership, and decision-making capabilities.