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At Nouryon, our global team takes positive action every day to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to meet society’s needs – today and in the future. We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward, champion others, and work together to do better. Does that sound like you?

About the job

In this exciting role, you will manage, drive, and coordinate environmental investigations and remediation projects across Europe, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and responsible handling of soil and groundwater contamination. You will play a key part in managing environmental risks from both a sustainability and business perspective, while supporting sound financial planning through environmental reserves and contributing to the long-term strategy for managing environmental liabilities.

You will be part of the Nouryon Environmental Liability Management team, which is part of corporate legal, working with highly skilled and dedicated colleagues and partners around the globe.

The role can be based in either Sweden (Gothenburg) or the Netherlands (Amsterdam).

In your future role as Environmental Liability Project Manager - Europe, you will

• Be responsible for managing impaired sites and environmental liabilities across Nouryon’s European portfolio, ensuring compliance, cost control, and protection of the company’s reputation.
• Monitor and control investigation and remediation costs, including invoice approval and environmental liability provisioning.
• Manage consultants and contractors, including scope definition, performance follow-up, cost control, and review of deliverables.
• Maintain relationships with Nouryon sites, regulatory authorities, and key stakeholders.
• Support the development of remediation strategies, including safety, budgeting, coordination with functions (Legal/Finance/HSE), and stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of ELM procedures and guidelines.
• Support M&A activities through environmental due diligence as needed.
• Travel as required for site visits (mainly Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and France) and stakeholder engagement. Travel varies but can be expected to be up to 20% during certain periods.

We believe you bring

• An academic degree in science or engineering (e.g., MSc, master’s degree, or equivalent in geology, chemistry, environmental science, or similar)
• Extensive relevant experience from the process, pharma, mining, or oil industry and/or global technical consulting
• Project management experience with complex environmental matters from technical, financial, and legal aspects
• Experience working across multiple countries (both technical and cultural contexts)
• Experience engaging with regulatory authorities in more than one European jurisdiction
• Fluency in English and either Swedish or Dutch
• A valid driver’s license

We believe you are a confident and decisive professional who can act with clarity and authority when needed. You build trust quickly, including with senior stakeholders, by communicating with credibility and sound judgment. You are skilled at building and maintaining strong relationships across functions and geographies, and you navigate complex situations with a structured and forward-looking approach.

You can balance and integrate multiple perspectives—technical, legal, and financial—when making decisions, and you demonstrate strong cultural awareness when working in an international environment. At the same time, you are organized and proactive, with the ability to manage issues systematically and anticipate challenges ahead of time.

We offer you

At Nouryon, we provide a great job and friendly coworkers, plus benefits in addition to salary. Our collective agreement is with IKEM. Plus, we offer unilateral perks, such as bonus, reduced hours, health care allowance, lunch allowance, and more.

Have we got your interest?

This is a permanent position on a full-time basis, reporting to Henrik Eriksson, Global Environmental Liability Manager, and based in Sweden, Gothenburg at our Nordic Business Center or in The Netherlands, Amsterdam.

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once received, we will review to see if there is a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/

As an applicant, you will be subject to a background check before employment. You will receive more information about this later in the recruitment process.

We work actively and systematically with HSE matters to ensure a safe and sustainable working environment for our employees. As an employee, you may therefore be required to undergo drug testing on a random basis. This is part of our commitment to safeguarding the safety and well-being of our staff.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About Nouryon

Explore careers and life at Nouryon

If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one, we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.

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Contact

For additional information about the vacancy, please contact hiring manager Henrik Eriksson, Global Environmental Liability Manager, at [email protected]

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or your application or need assistance, please contact: [email protected]

For union contacts, please see below:

Akademikerklubben: Katarina Risö – [email protected]

Unionen: Helene Rosenlund [email protected]

Ledarna: Sanna Backman – [email protected]

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