Sustainability Specialist

Overview

Reporting to the Construction Manager, the Sustainability Specialist will contribute to the development, implementation, and administration of the corporation’s sustainable development programs. The Sustainability Specialist assesses the environmental impacts of existing operations and conducts analysis to determine opportunities for improvement. The role ensures the corporation’s business practices and programs meet or exceed provincial legislation and the corporation’s commitment to operating in a sustainable manner.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leadership and subject matter experts to create and amend a long-term sustainability plan that integrates the environment with business interests and provides for targets and constant improvement.
• Liaise with leadership and staff throughout the corporation to garner support and achieve corporate environmental objectives.
• Provide support to leadership in meeting corporate strategies and legislative requirements as they pertain to sustainable development.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of third-party sustainability certifications.
• Participate on, or lead, project teams and committees as requested to act as an environmental consultant and encourage sustainable solutions.
• Prepare budget requests and multiyear projections for planned sustainability initiatives.
• Lead, coordinate or contribute to a variety of initiatives to further efficiency and environmental goals.
• Coordinate required measuring, monitoring, studies, and audits to document and assess the corporation’s environmental performance and maintain all related programs and processes.
• Create templates for required data capture from various internal and external stakeholders.
• Consult all stakeholders to obtain information and calculate corporate sustainability metrics.
• Use industry / government recommended protocols and modeling tools to measure and analyze environmental metrics and compare with industry norms.
• Coordinate periodic waste audits to determine the effectiveness of waste management strategies.
• Through research, education and networking develop or expand expertise in a wide variety of subjects that contribute to corporate environmental and social responsibility.
• Liaise with the other Crowns, the low carbon government office, as well as other government and non-government environmental organizations and experts to understand other’s approaches and anticipate trends across government, business, and society towards environmental management.

Qualifications

Education:

• An undergraduate degree in Science, Environmental Sciences, or a related discipline.

Experience:

• A minimum of two years of related experience with developing and integrating sustainable development practices within a large and complex organization.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience in compiling data needed to determine a large organization’s greenhouse gas inventory.
• Knowledge of green building concepts, as well as familiarity with the LEED system and other green building designations.
• Knowledge of key sustainability issues and how they can be integrated into business to create measurable value.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Teams). Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are an asset.

Conditions of Employment

• Have and maintain a valid Manitoba Class 5 Drivers license
• Must be willing to travel to all MPI offices within Manitoba.

Employee Benefits

Health benefits

We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

• flexible health, dental and vision plans
• health spending account
• travel health coverage
• other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security

In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

• registered pension plan
• group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
• sick leave to cover short-term disability
• long-term disability

Wellness

We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

• vacation entitlement
• maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
• bereavement and family responsibility leaves
• employee and family assistance program
• mental-health programming
• onsite employee gym facility (Cityplace)
• discounted gym memberships
• wellness account

Diversity and inclusion

Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

Employee recognition

It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

Professional development

We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up to date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

Safety and health

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.