Environmental Compliance Manager

Circle K • Raleigh, NC

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About The Position

The Environmental Compliance Manager is responsible for leading an in-office team and managing budget performance for operations in assigned divisions across Circle K’s North American footprint. Mission-critical operations include underground storage tank (UST) regulatory compliance, environmental permitting, reporting, and corrective actions. This role provides direct leadership to a team of Environmental Supervisors, Specialists, and Coordinators, ensuring consistent execution, regulatory adherence, expenditures, and communication across a large, geographically diverse footprint. The position serves as a customer-facing regional compliance leader, engaging regulatory agencies and internal business partners while resolving complex UST matters with minimal supervision.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in environmental compliance, fuel systems, facility maintenance, or a related specialty, with demonstrated multi-site or multi- division responsibility.
• Proven people leadership experience, including managing leaders (Supervisors) and indirect teams.
• Strong working knowledge of UST regulations, environmental compliance programs, and regulatory agency engagement across multiple states or jurisdictions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and lead through matrixed organizations.
• Ability to independently resolve complex compliance matters and apply sound judgment in high-risk situations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Maintain UST Class A/B Operator certifications across applicable states within assigned divisions.

Nice To Haves

• experience with environmental compliance systems (e.g., TITAN or similar platforms) preferred.
• Project management experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead with a thorough understanding of all aspects of UST environmental regulatory compliance across multiple assigned divisions, including fuel system monitoring, inspections, testing, reporting, and documentation.
• Provide direct people leadership to Environmental Supervisors, Specialists, and Coordinators, including organizational structure, and builds a culture of trust while workload balancing, coaching, development, and performance management.
• Cooperative colleague who brings a collaborative communication style to management and compliance individuals.
• Ensure consistent compliance execution, standards, and practices across divisions while accounting for state and local regulatory differences. Develop, update or change processes as necessary.
• Support, manage, and resolve compliance issues with the compliance and divisional teams related to USTs, fuel inventory reconciliation, reporting requirements, and Stage I/II vapor recovery systems.
• Support the acquisition, renewal, and tracking of environmental operating permits, tank registrations, air permits, and other required facility permits.
• Ensure team accurately maintains system activity within the TITAN system.
• Serve as a liaison with regulatory agencies regarding inspections, inquiries, enforcement actions, notices of violation, and compliance commitments. Ensure timely resolution, documentation, and regulatory closure of deficiencies.
• Partner with internal stakeholders including Maintenance, Facilities, IT, Wholesale, Fuels, Legal, and Operations to resolve compliance gaps and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with the Project Team on tank removals and other regulated environmental projects within assigned divisions, ensuring timely, accurate, and budget focused strategies.
• Contractor/vendor management of bid requests, contracts, scope, reporting, invoicing accuracy. Ensure costs align with approved scope and compliance requirements.
• Serve as a resource on complex compliance scenarios across divisions, evaluate corrective action options, and implement solutions using established procedures and regulatory guidance.
• Maintain UST Class A/B Operator certifications across applicable states within assigned divisions.
• Monitor team’s workflow, performance metrics, and task completion to ensure service levels, compliance timelines, and regulatory commitments are consistently met.
• Drive and own continual improvement process, KRAs and KPIs.
• Escalate high-risk or enterprise-impact issues as appropriate while maintaining ownership through resolution.
• Perform other related duties as assigned in support of enterprise environmental compliance objectives.
• Work closely with the other Environmental Compliance Managers to resolve complex compliance issues, reducing delays, and ensuring ESS operations are effective and mission-driven.
• Bring a high-caliber work ethic and hold assigned ESS compliance team accountable to high performance standards.
• Managing holistically with assigned ESS compliance team in coordination with other ESS compliance teams and overall Environmental Shared Services.
• Emphasize Circle K’s One Team value.
• Take action to resolve urgent Compliance issues, review best practices, contribute to continual improvement.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams such as Business Unit Operations, Real Estate, and Fuels.
• Other relevant opportunities as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager