Job Description Summary

The Senior Manager of Environmental Programs & Compliance serves as the strategic leader for the organization’s environmental initiatives. Unlike site-based roles, this role is responsible for setting environmental strategies, ensuring cross-facility regulatory alignment, and managing a team of environmental professionals. This role drives the organization’s sustainability agenda, oversees high-risk environmental projects, and serves as the primary liaison between operations and environmental regulatory bodies.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement the environmental roadmap, including air, water, waste, and remediation strategies that align with business growth and sustainability goals.
• Broad Understanding of Environmental Laws and Reporting: Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Stack Database & Air Testing, NRC Semi-annual Effluent Reporting and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), inclusive of wastewater, stormwater, and process water management.
• Regulatory Oversight: Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for environmental compliance. Lead the management of complex permit applications, agency reporting, and high-level inspections.
• Program Excellence: Design and implement global or regional environmental policies that standardize performance across the enterprise.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Function as a critical partner to Engineering, Operations, and Business Leadership to integrate "Design for Environment" (DfE) principles into new product/process development.
• Change Management: Drive a culture of environmental stewardship, using advanced persuasion and communication skills to influence senior leadership and site operations on complex environmental topics.

Competencies: 

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to look beyond day-to-day operations to anticipate future environmental regulations and market trends.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Demonstrated success in leading teams, managing performance, and building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Analytical Rigor: Using technical environmental data to inform business investment decisions, CAPEX planning, and long-term risk mitigation strategies.
• Project Management: Proven ability to manage multi-site, multi-year environmental projects with high-risk profiles and budget accountability.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 8–10+ years in EHS/Environmental roles, with at least 3+ years in a leadership or team-supervisory capacity.
• Certifications: Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), or Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) preferred.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government. ​

Additional Information

 

 

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $113,100.00 and $188,500.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

 

 

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

 

 

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on August 28, 2026.

 

 

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

 

 

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.