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Job Title: Chief Environmental Counsel
Job Location: Wickliffe, OH
Job type: Full-time, exempt
Type of role: Hybrid
About Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.
We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.
Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as Chief Environmental Counsel
Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol, we're transforming the specialty chemical manufacturing industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
The Lubrizol Corporation (Lubrizol), headquartered in Wickliffe, OH, is seeking an experienced Environmental Counsel to join its Legal Team. The Environmental Counsel will lead Lubrizol’s environmental compliance and provide advice regarding environmental, health, safety, quality and product regulations, enforcement, and related litigation matters. This position will be based in Wickliffe, OH, and follow a hybrid working model. Relocation assistance is available.
What You'll Do:
- Provide legal support for Lubrizol’s environmental operations, including counseling on all aspects of air, waste, land, water, transportation and security matters related to regulatory compliance, investigations and enforcement issues.
- Lead legal support for the enterprise-wide environmental issues including dealings with third parties, related to federal, state, or local environmental or other agencies or representatives, and their international equivalents.
- Negotiate agreements related to environmental operations, including permits, consent decrees, settlements and similar agreements.
- Provide legal support for Health, Safety, Environmental, Quality, and product regulations, and conduct due diligence in mergers and acquisitions transactions.
- Counsel Lubrizol’s remediation site portfolio, including reviewing consultant reports, assisting in assessing financial assurance requirements, and counseling on site priorities.
- Coordinate with and oversee outside counsel to ensure proper handling of environmental matters.
- Participate in specific trade organization committees to advise on policy, rulemaking activities and proposed regulations.
- Stay current on emerging trends in environmental law through continuing legal education, industry publications, and participation in professional conferences and associations.
Skills That Make A Difference
- Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in the practice of environmental law in an environmental regulatory agency, law firm or international corporate law department.
- Experience analyzing environmental regulatory requirements and developing compliance programs.
- Preferable experience in product regulatory matters, such as TSCA, REACH, and similar programs.
- Member in good standing with a US state bar; if bar is other than Ohio, ability to obtain registered corporate counsel status.
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to work as part of a team providing timely, clear and implementable legal advice to accomplish the business objectives.
- Capability to anticipate, define and mitigate environmental risks.
- Preferable experience conducting M&A due diligence on environmental matters.
- Ability to independently organize, prioritize, and manage a high volume of projects.
- Solid work ethic, commitment to job completion and personal integrity.
- Approximately 20 % travel.
- Dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive team environment.
Perks and Rewards That Inspire:
- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
- 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
- Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings
- Heath Savings Account
- Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave
- Flexible work environment
Learn more at benefits.lubrizol.com!
Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!
It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.
We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.
As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.
One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.
More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.
