Legal Counsel - Environmental and Remediation

The Legal Counsel, Environmental and Remediation will provide competent, practical, and timely legal advice concerning global environmental and remediation matters to enable The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and its teams to comply with applicable laws/regulations, minimize legal/financial liabilities, protect and advance corporate interests, and preserve corporate assets.

Job Duties / Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain close coordination with Goodyear's Vice President, EHS and Business Continuity and global and regional EHS and legal teams to advise on and manage global environmental compliance programs and matters

• Manage the legal portfolio of Goodyear's global environmental remediation matters

• Maintain close coordination with Goodyear's Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Manager, Global Remediation

• Interface with other Goodyear organizations (Risk Management; Finance; Tax; Accounting; Real Estate; Business Development; Communications) and other members of the Global Law Department (including Contracts Center of Excellence) in connection with global environmental remediation matters

• Manage and coordinate defense strategies for formal regulatory citations, claims, litigation, and similar actions for global environmental matters, and provide legal support for incident management and response efforts, and manage Goodyear's outside environmental and remediation counsel

• Conduct investigations into global environmental incidents, ethics hotline complaints, and regulatory complaints, and advise on the development of corrective actions and reports of findings to senior leadership

• Develop/conduct training for key stakeholders on relevant environmental and remediation matters

Key Experience

• Highest level of ethical conduct and integrity

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to navigate across functions and establish trust with Executive and Senior Management

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to develop business-oriented and cost-efficient solutions

• Demonstrated business judgment and consensus-building skills

• Ability to provide practical solutions 

• Proven ability to work as part of a team providing timely/clear/concise legal advice in order to accomplish business objectives of the corporation

• Highly motivated, efficient, organized and detail -oriented

• Strong interpersonal skills

Key Skills

• Law degree from an accredited United States law school and a member of the bar (not state specific)

• 4 or more years of experience at a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal department

• Demonstrated leadership experience

• Demonstrated experience serving clients in a fast-paced corporate environment (including client counseling experience)

#LI-NC2

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 49 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate

If you need reasonable accommodation to complete the online application, or any other part of the employment process, please contact the Goodyear Candidate Care Line at 330.796.4500.

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.