Categories: Environmental Health & Safety, Management, Chemical Manufacturing

Job Description:

Basic Function

The Manager – Environmental – APAC has three primary roles:

1. Expert Support & Leadership

• Provide environmental leadership and strategy to all APAC businesses, consistent with Huntsman’s corporate standards and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with legislative and corporate requirements.
• Drive continuous performance improvement by identifying and developing improvement opportunities.
• Identify and reduce environmental risks.
• Lead communication and stakeholder engagement.

2. Environmental Data & Metrics

• Review reported environmental data and provide input on environmental metrics and projects supporting Huntsman’s EHS targets and sustainability program.

3. Strategic Support

• Advise APAC businesses on soil and groundwater assessments.
• Analyze data for trends, incorrect reporting, and unlikely patterns.
• Support environmental remediation, M&A due diligence, EHS auditing, and related activities.

The incumbent collaborates with the Corporate EHS Legal group for timely EHS-related disclosures and participates in the Corporate Legacy and Remediation Network. Additionally, the incumbent serves as a regional leader for environmental excellence, mentoring site-based EHS managers and strengthening environmental capability across APAC.

Statistics / Dimensions

The incumbent is responsible and accountable for:

• Ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of publicly disclosed EHS (APAC region) information.
• Conducting due diligence for acquisition, divestment, and merger deals (potentially $100 million to $1 billion).
• Providing strategic and expert environmental consultancy for all Huntsman Corporation divisions globally.
• Ensuring compliance with Huntsman standards and local regulatory requirements.
• Sharing best practices, reporting metrics, and identifying areas for continuous improvement.

Relationships

• Reports directly to the Global Environmental Senior Manager, with a strong functional link to the APAC Regional EHS Director.
• Responsible for selecting and managing external environmental service providers (consultants and contractors) for technical studies and regulatory requirements.
• Works closely with global EHS personnel, Corporate EHS Governance and Shared Services, Division Leadership, and the EHS Global Leadership Group.
• Attends leadership meetings (e.g., Global EHS Leadership Group, APAC Regional EHS Leadership Team, Legacy/Remediation Network) as needed.
• Maintains a wide network of internal and external contacts, including subject matter experts, regulators, consultants, suppliers, and business contacts.

Know-How

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in EHS, environmental science, engineering, or chemistry (strong data/statistical analysis skills required).
• Preferred: Master’s or postgraduate qualifications in related fields.
• At least 15 years of relevant experience in EHS, operations management, engineering, or project management.
• Strong working knowledge of environmental regulations (especially in China and APAC), operational practices, and greenhouse gas accounting.
• Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills, with experience working with senior management.

Problem Solving

• Ability to identify, analyze, and define problems; develop and recommend solutions.
• Implement solutions within authority or gain approval by working with all organizational levels.
• Requires adaptive thinking—analytical, interpretative, evaluative, and constructive.
• Operates within general company policies but often needs innovative solutions for unique circumstances.
• Strategic objectives set by the Global Environmental Senior Manager; tactical objectives by the APAC Regional EHS Director.
• Must handle ambiguity to determine specific activities and programs to achieve objectives.

Accountability

• Protect the company’s financial well-being by identifying and communicating potential EHS risks, liabilities, and sustainability issues for all APAC operations.
• Responsible for due diligence in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, third-party claims, and emerging regulatory initiatives.
• Ensure the timeliness and accuracy of publicly disclosed EHS and sustainability information.
• Shared responsibility for EHS compliance and supporting line management.
• Implement transformational change in environmental matters within APAC, in line with Huntsman’s direction.
• Foster a culture of innovation and excellence in environmental management.
• Provide expert advice on environmental matters as a member of the Global Environmental Team.
• Manage consultants/contractors for soil and groundwater monitoring/remediation, or support site resources in these activities.

Organization Chart

• Direct reporting line to the Global Environmental Senior Manager.
• Dotted-line relationship with the APAC Regional EHS structure.

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