Sustainability Specialist at Blum, Inc – Stanley, North Carolina

🌱 Sustainability Specialist

Location: Stanley NC
Department: Sustainability / Environmental Management
Employment Type: Full-Time

Are you passionate about driving meaningful environmental and energy improvements? Do you enjoy collaborating across teams to create sustainable solutions in a manufacturing environment? Join our team as a Sustainability Specialist and help advance our mission toward a more sustainable future.

🔹 About the Role

As a Sustainability Specialist, you will support and continually improve our Environmental and Energy Management Systems. You’ll collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams—locally and internationally—to identify sustainability risks and opportunities, lead initiatives, support compliance needs, and drive measurable performance improvements.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Support the site’s Environmental and Energy Management Systems, including implementing actions for continual improvement
• Organize, collect, and analyze environmental and energy performance data
• Lead and promote employee sustainability initiatives and awareness efforts
• Monitor and interpret sustainability‑related legal developments in the corporate context
• Identify sustainability risks and opportunities within the business environment
• Collaborate with global sustainability professionals to develop new solutions
• Assist with customer, regulatory, and stakeholder sustainability inquiries and reporting
• Support and coordinate key sustainability metrics and performance tracking
• Prepare cost comparisons and payback analyses for projects
• Organize and lead teams to deliver targeted sustainability improvements
• Maintain accurate documentation, data tracking, and administrative records
• Estimate costs and timelines to support project execution
• Clearly communicate sustainability concepts to audiences at all organizational levels
• Limited US and/or international travel required

🔹 Education & Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required
• Specialized training in environmental/energy management, sustainability, or corporate social responsibility required
• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, or sustainability preferred

🔹 Experience

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in a medium‑sized industrial or manufacturing environment
• Minimum 1 year of experience with ISO 14001/ISO 50001 management systems

🔹 Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of ISO 14001 and ISO 50001
• Knowledge of sustainability best practices in manufacturing
• Familiarity with continuous improvement principles
• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)
• Excellent analytical, research, and reporting skills
• Ability to synthesize complex data
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively
• Team‑oriented mindset with a passion for environmental stewardship

Benefits

Blum USA believes in offering their employees an excellent benefits package that includes:

Company Overview

For more than 60 years Blum has been manufacturing superior quality hinge systems, drawer runners, and lift systems that create emotion and enhance user convenience in the kitchen. With every product, we strive to develop solutions to ensure that cabinet doors and drawers open with ease, close softly and effortlessly, and make workflow and everyday kitchen use easier.

Over the decades our product range has grown and so has the company. Today, Blum has eight production plants in Austria, and manufacturing sites in Brazil, Poland, China and the United States. Approximately 9000 Blum employees all over the world concentrate on the vision of “perfecting motion” to satisfy the specific requirements of the end user, whether it is in the kitchen or in another living area of the home. This prerequisite is the source of all our product development and innovation