How Cemex Creates an Environment for Sustainability with Erin Loza

In this week’s Coffee and Compliance, we had the chance to sit down with Erin Loza, the Director of Environmental for the West Region at CEMEX. Erin shared her impressive career path, starting as an administrative assistant and working her way into her current role as a director. Erin oversees more than 226 plant facilities and manages many employees throughout California and Nevada.

Her evolution from an Environmental Specialist into Director of Environmental happened in just 4 years – an accomplishment she believes is due to her business involvement, enthusiasm for new opportunities, and ability to connect with her colleagues. 

To Erin, employees are a company’s #1 stakeholder, which shows in her commitment to leadership and teamwork. She views her employees as peers as they work together to tackle challenges, which was tested last year during the pandemic. Despite the obstacles, Cemex embraced COVID-19 as a unique opportunity to reset.

Through technology, teams could connect and focus on refining regulatory procedures; however, this would not have been possible without strong leaders like Erin.

While digital tools were essential for communication, Erin also stressed the importance of implementing tools to track data and share information across teams easily. Erin left us with some final wisdom for EHS professionals, including finding a mentor and pursuing opportunities that interest you.

Through her passion for the business and being involved, Erin has been able to pave her path; she balances her role as a director with fearlessly embracing new opportunities and creating connections with her coworkers.

As a champion for diversity and inclusion, Erin sees a lot of benefit in finding something important to you. The more opportunities for involvement, the more we can learn; this leads to a more diverse role within the company and increases your ability to expand into more opportunities.

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