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Job Description: Data Analyst and Auditor Support - Environmental

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role:

The Data Analyst and Auditor Support – Environmental is responsible for supporting the environmental audit function for 3M (Global Audits), with a focus on corrective action oversight and audit data analysis. This role serves as the review and approval point for audit finding closures and extensions, ensuring corrective actions are effective, sustainable, and aligned with regulatory requirements and internal expectations. Through trending and analysis of findings across sites and audit cycles, the position helps identify systemic risks, informs audit program priorities, and contributes to a culture of openness, transparency, and continuous improvement.

As the Data Analyst and Auditor Support – Environmental, 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:

• Reviewing corrective actions and supporting evidence to approve or reject audit finding closures, aligning with site partners, and verifying that the recommended resolution and applicable local regulatory requirements are met.
• Evaluating finding extension requests against defined criteria (justification, interim controls, and revised timeline), aligning with site partners, and approving, rejecting, or escalating as appropriate.
• Monitoring open, overdue, and repeatedly extended findings and partnering with sites and business partners to drive timely, sustainable closure.
• Documenting closure and extension decisions consistently to maintain a clear and defensible audit trail.
• Using environmental subject-matter expertise to assess the adequacy of corrective actions across areas such as air, water, waste, chemical management, and related regulatory programs.
• Maintaining the accuracy and completeness of audit finding data within the audit management system.
• Analyzing finding and audit data to identify trends, repeat findings, systemic issues, and higher-risk sites, regulatory topics, or business groups.
• Developing and maintaining dashboards, metrics, and periodic reports (e.g., closure rates, finding aging, extension frequency, repeat findings) for the audit program manager, business partners, and senior leadership.
• Benchmarking corrective action solutions across sites to share effective practices and enable efficient finding closure.
• Collaborating with the audit program manager, auditors, and environmental SMEs to maintain and enhance audit protocols based on data insights, regulatory changes, industry practices, and internal needs.
• Lead the preparation and timely distribution of audit reports, and the scheduling and coordination of audit activities with site and business partners.
• Escalating critical compliance risks, systemic issues, or barriers to closure according to audit program processes.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements and related changes.

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 in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or a related environmental field.
• Minimum 5 years of environmental compliance, auditing, or permitting experience in manufacturing, industrial, or chemical industry environments.
• Strong knowledge of regional environmental regulatory programs and/or the ability to learn and understand individual regulatory obligations.
• Demonstrated ability to objectively evaluate corrective actions and evidence and make well-supported closure and extension decisions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, formulas, and charts), Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively, prioritize a high volume of reviews, and meet deadlines.

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

• 7+ years of environmental experience.
• Prior auditing experience (internal, external, or third-party) and/or auditor credentials (e.g., ISO 14001 Lead Auditor, CPEA).
• Experience with data visualization or analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and audit or EHS management systems.
• Experience with root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) methodologies.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional or global teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presenting data insights to leadership.

Work Location: India

Travel: Not intended with this role

Grade: 9 or 10?

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