Description

You will be responsible for ensuring compliance, improving and promoting the environmental performance of the mill. You will also lead day-to-day operation of the Technical Lab to ensure safe, accurate, and timely analyses that support product quality, process control, and environmental compliance. This role is accountable for people leadership in a unionized environment; maintaining lab methods, equipment, and data integrity; and ensuring alignment with our Quality and ISO 14001:2015 (environmental management) requirements.

Responsibilities

Environmental & Process Compliance

- Provide enabling support within our mill to facilitate our ability to meet environmental performance objectives. This may include providing advice, training support, and other supporting tasks.

- Maintain and continually improve site-wide ISO 14001:2015 EMS processes, including aspects/impacts, operational controls, internal audits, nonconformance/CAPA, and compliance evaluations.

- Act as the leading representative in the implementation of new regulatory requirements.

- Responsible for internal and external environmental reporting.

- Coordinate with Environmental and Operations teams to meet regulatory and corporate reporting timelines.

Laboratory Operations

- Lead, coach, and schedule hourly lab technicians in a unionized setting; uphold the contract provisions, attendance, and performance management.

- Build capability through training, method qualification, and training





- Foster a solid safety culture and adherence to lab SOPs, PPE, and risk controls.

- Manage daily workload, prioritization, and turnaround times for product QA testing and process analyses.

- Ensure readiness and reliability of lab assets through preventive maintenance, calibrations, and service.

- Own consumables/standards inventory, vendor coordination, and budget stewardship for the labs.

- Maintain robust sample handling, chain-of-custody, laboratory data integrity, and records retention.

- Validate and publish lab results; escalate deviations and support root cause analysis.

- Partner with Operations, Technical, and Maintenance to translate lab insights into process adjustments and corrective actions.

- Prepare summary reports and present lab performance, trends, and KPIs.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Environmental, Pulp & Paper, Chemical, Engineering, or related Science field

- Supervisory/lead role experience in a unionized environment will be considered an asset.

- Ability to effectively manage multiple assignments and shifting priorities

- Ability to work independently

- Strong working knowledge of pulp and paper QA and process testing methods (e.g., TAPPI/ISO methods for pulp and paper properties) would be an asset.

- Environmental lab experience with common regulatory parameters.

- Familiarity with ISO 14001:2015 requirements and internal auditing.

📌 Environmental Specialist/Lab Supervisor (Saint John)
🏢 J.D. Irving
📍 Saint John