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Richmond, Virginia, WV Full Time Manufacturing and Production Posted 08/11/2026

Job Description

Are you eager to lead groundbreaking sustainability efforts at the LEGO Group’s newest manufacturing site, driving impactful change in environmental practices?

Join the Global LEGO team as a Sustainability Manager to spearhead innovative carbon, water, and waste strategies at our new manufacturing site, collaborating globally to achieve Zero Impact Operations and drive meaningful environmental change.

• Lead the full lifecycle of sustainability initiatives at the site, including baseline setting, roadmap development, investment case, delivery, and performance reporting.
• Translate global Zero Impact Operations strategy into a site-specific plan with clear owners and milestones.
• Collaborate with site engineering, facilities, and production teams to build and maintain resource-efficiency roadmaps.
• Prioritize and manage the project pipeline using tools like the Water Resilience Matrix and Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC) for carbon.
• Engage with the Site Leadership Team to provide updates, options, and recommendations for decision-making.
• Coordinate Kaizen and continuous improvement events to achieve sustainability outcomes.
• Build sustainability ownership and literacy across site teams through engagement and behavior-change activities.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Sustainable Operations is a global department leading the change journey towards Zero Impact Operation in our factories. We lead and develop sustainability strategies and roadmaps for carbon, water, and waste at factory level and play an important part in the LEGO Group’s sustainability ambitions and commitments.

The Sustainability Manager delivers the site's sustainability agenda, translating global sustainability strategy and long-term goals into site-specific roadmaps and driving execution in close partnership with the site's engineering and operations teams. The role is the operational delivery layer at site level carrying the technical credibility to work alongside engineers and the engagement skills to keep sustainability visible at the Site Leadership Team table.

Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, or operations environment, with a focus on sustainability. Bachelor’s degree (BSc/BEng) in Engineering (chemical, mechanical, environmental, energy, or process) or a closely related technical or environmental science discipline is highly desirable to engage with engineering functions for business alignment.

• Proven end-to-end delivery of carbon, energy, water, or waste projects at plant or site level, owning the outcomes.
• Stakeholder management skills, experience with senior leadership, decision meetings, and shop‑floor engagement.
• Cross‑functional collaboration experience, leading projects and workstreams without direct authority.

• Advanced expertise in carbon/GHG accounting and ISO 50001 systems, with skills in roadmap and abatement‑curve development.
• Knowledge of water resource conservation and waste‑flow analysis, including resilience and risk assessment, supported by valued certifications like LEED or BREEAM.
• Proficiency in project and portfolio management, budgeting, and financial literacy, enhanced by a Master’s in Sustainability or related fields.
• Strong data analysis capabilities, including KPI design and performance/ESG reporting, with familiarity in continuous improvement methods like Lean and Kaizen.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, turning complex data into compelling cases for action, supported by project management certifications like PMP/PRINCE2
• Commercial and financial awareness, contributing to capital and Opex budgets and supporting investment cases.

• Best of Both work arrangement – 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
• No relocation will be available
• Some minimal travel (including internationally) will be required

The salary for this position has a range of $104,327.00 - $156,491.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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