Contract Production Sustainability Manager
about 3 years ago
Redwood City, CA, US
Redwood City, CA, US
Job Description
Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
Plan and execute cross-functional efforts to operationalize our corporate water, waste, and carbon targets across and within manufacturing and biomanufacturing operations. Ensure context-based implementation of the company’s sustainability policy goals with a special focus on facilities, production, real estate, and customer reporting. Help set corporate standards in line with overall Impossible Foods sustainability goals with co-manufacturing to ensure alignment and shared progress on sustainability journey. Develop, recommends, implements, and manages systems and processes for the client teams that address operational sustainability goals with priority in climate, water, and waste targets. Help foster an environmentally and socially responsible corporate culture that benefits the customers, employees, and the communities served.
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here: https://impossiblefoods.com/careers/notice. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
Plan and execute cross-functional efforts to operationalize our corporate water, waste, and carbon targets across and within manufacturing and biomanufacturing operations. Ensure context-based implementation of the company’s sustainability policy goals with a special focus on facilities, production, real estate, and customer reporting. Help set corporate standards in line with overall Impossible Foods sustainability goals with co-manufacturing to ensure alignment and shared progress on sustainability journey. Develop, recommends, implements, and manages systems and processes for the client teams that address operational sustainability goals with priority in climate, water, and waste targets. Help foster an environmentally and socially responsible corporate culture that benefits the customers, employees, and the communities served.
You will
- Support client groups (Manufacturing, Bio-manufacturing, Real Estate and Facilities) by developing responsible operations program with ESG/sustainability goals and standards within the overall sustainability framework
- Operationalize water stewardship, carbon neutrality, and zero waste goals across client teams in line with overall sustainability roadmap.
- Execute ESG strategy by conducting research, building business cases, and obtaining alignment from the businesses to proceed with initiatives.
- Drive cost and operational efficienciesBuild necessary transparency, traceability, and reporting capabilities.
- Drive toward continuous improvement inclusive of co-manufacturingPartner with co-manufacturing and client teams to develop strategies for energy conservation and low carbon procurement, water use reduction, and zero waste.
- Identify capital investment opportunities where gaps occur.
- Provide data and analytics for internal and external reporting including tracking of KPI’s for corporate dashboards.
- Interface with utilities, regulatory agencies and vendors to maintain momentum on sustainability goals. This may range from sourcing non-landfill disposal options or piloting industry initiatives to energy procurement changes to suggestions for process efficiencies.
- Introduce and support alignment with relevant ESG certifications and customer sustainability reporting requests
- Oversee existing sustainability certification documentation and compliance including True Zero Waste, 10x20x30, and Race to Zero
- Drive integration of engineering tools to measure process materiality and carbon accounting within IT and enterprise platforms
- Manage data, report leading/lagging indicators, and ensure compliance and improving performance with customer reporting portals
- Continuously build the business case for sustainability
- Conduct cost assessments to determine “real cost” of interventions from both P&L and climate risk perspective; estimate ROI on investmentsIn partnership with Resiliency team, assess resource conservation success on basis of long-term risk reduction
You have
- At least 5 years of engineering and manufacturing experience, preferably food processing industry. LEED certification is a plus
- Excellent influencing skills with a track record of successful cross functional workflows for sustainability and ESG matters
- A track record of successful project management with deliverables achieved
- Strong systems-thinking capability and ability to support teams in making context-based decisions around sustainability while navigating tradeoffs.
- A collegial, collaborative, non-hierarchical approach to work
- A clear perspective on and ability to articulate the importance of sustainability as a business priority -- and a willingness and ability to educate and motivate your client teams and business partners
- Expertise in trends, certifications, and ability to act as a voice of customer requirements
- Experience with enterprise platforms and ESG data reporting via IT integration
- Experience with green building standards in a commercial manufacturing context
- The ability to occasionally travel in support of the client teams
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here: https://impossiblefoods.com/careers/notice. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.
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