Senior Environmental & Safety Specialist

Senior Environmental & Safety Specialist

Location:

Aiken, SC, US

The Senior Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Specialist – Environmental Focus is a critical member of the plant team who provides technical leadership and oversight to ensure environmental compliance and drive continuous improvement in environmental performance across the Aiken, SC and Blythewood, SC facilities. This role partners with plant leadership to build ownership, accountability, and a culture of environmental stewardship. This position reports to the Aiken EHS Leader.

• Ensure a safe, clean, and environmentally compliant work environment for employees, contractors, and visitors in which working Safer Together is the first priority.
• Partner with the EHS team to conduct environmental incident investigations and make recommendations to ensure regulatory inspection readiness.
• Lead Environmental Initiatives and processes to drive toward zero non-conformities and Notice of Violation (NOVs).
• Set and accomplish critical environmental metrics to ensure continuous improvement.
• Drive and sustain environmental excellence through the Environmental Management System.
• Authority to stop work or elevate conditions that pose environmental compliance risk.
• Maintain compliance with environmental operating permits, such as US EPA Title V air permits, Municipal Wastewater permits, State or local Storm Water permits, Class II Landfill permits, SARA 311/313, Groundwater compliance, and SPCC.
• Develop and maintain environmental monitoring and recordkeeping to satisfy operating permit requirements.
• Manage all aspects of the plant’s Hazardous waste, Solid waste, and Universal waste within Federal, State and Local guidelines.
• Provide regulatory guidance to facility leadership and operating personnel.
• Review or update policies and procedures to comply with changes to environmental regulations and standards.
• Facilitate required environmental testing of air, water and water sources.
• Work with division resources to support Corporate Sustainability reporting, Green House Gas (GHG) reporting, Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT), and other current or pending regulatory requirements.
• Interact with outside consultants/contractors on regulatory compliance, tracking and approving terms of service, budgets, and spending.
• Ensure operations and maintenance personnel are aware of and accountable for environmental compliance.
• Interact with agency personnel to facilitate site inspections, inquiries and corrective actions.
• Maintain chemical approval process.
• Develop and implement environmental programs such as air and water compliance, above-ground storage tanks, spill prevention and control, hazardous waste and materials management, solid waste recycling, and employee training.
• Update compliance action item tracking tools and templates for existing and newly issued permits, ensuring on‑time completion.
• Assess product, process and operational changes to determine environmental impact.
• Utilize process and engineering knowledge to identify and lead improvements to reduce environmental impact and meet sustainability goals.
• Serve as plant liaison on environmental issues affecting the community and industrial neighbors.
• Maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, drive compliance behaviors, and fully engage employees in sound environmental process management.
• Guide the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) in developing risk‑ranked strategic plans, prioritizing capital/resource requests, and advising on environmental requirements and responsibilities.
• Develop, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of all critical environmental processes, programs, and procedures.
• Grow and develop the plant EHS advocates.

• Zero Notices of Violation (NOVs) for federal, state, and local environmental requirements.
• 100% on‑time completion of permit‑required tasks.
• Audit findings closure rate (time‑bound).
• Corporate and Division metrics for sustainability targets (GHG, waste reduction, water usage).
• Plant environmental metrics including Environmental Non‑Conformities (ENCs), NOVs, and Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Feedback from plant NLT members.