Lead Environmental Engineer

Position Summary:

The Environmental Leader is responsible for leading the environmental function for the Advan Six Chesterfield, Virginia manufacturing site, a large manufacturing facility with air, water, waste, emergency planning, and environmental management system obligations. This role provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for environmental compliance, permitting, regulatory engagement, environmental risk management, and continuous improvement across the site. The Environmental Leader reports directly to the Chesterfield HSE Manager.

The role leads compliance programs for air permitting, VPDES and pretreatment water discharges, stormwater, RCRA waste, SPCC/AST requirements, and Responsible Care/RC14001 environmental management system elements. This position works closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, corporate HSE, consultants, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance, support capital projects, and protect Advan Six’s license to operate.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Environmental Leader provides overall leadership, direction, and accountability for the site’s environmental programs, ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements while supporting safe, reliable, and compliant manufacturing operations. This role is responsible for leading environmental strategy, managing regulatory relationships, supporting capital and operational priorities, and driving continuous improvement in environmental performance across the Chesterfield site.

Lead all environmental compliance and permitting activities for the Chesterfieldl site, including programs under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, EPCRA, CERCLA, SPCC, FRP, Virginia AST requirements, and applicable state and local requirements.

Provide overall leadership for air compliance and permitting.

Oversee compliance with the facility’s VPDES permit for direct discharges, including monitoring, reporting, permit strategy, permit renewals, and implementation of compliance plans.

Oversee compliance with the industrial pretreatment permit for discharges to the POTW.Manage the site industrial stormwater program, including SWPPP implementation, inspections, sampling, corrective actions, employee awareness, and regulatory reporting.

Provide overall leadership for site waste management, including RCRA regulated wastes, waste minimization, accumulation areas, inspections, contingency planning, contractor oversight, and disposal vendor performance.

Lead EPCRA and CERCLA compliance programs, including Tier II, release reporting, emergency planning, and regulatory notifications.

Manage SPCC Plan requirements and Virginia above ground storage tank (AST) and oil discharge control plan compliance programs.

Lead communication, negotiation, inspection support, enforcement response, and relationship management with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies.

Develop and execute regulatory compliance strategies for emerging environmental requirements and ensure new or revised obligations are evaluated, communicated, funded, and implemented.

Manage the environmental department budget, including consultants, contractors, sampling, monitoring, reporting, compliance projects, and other resources required to maintain compliance.

Provide environmental guidance to site leadership on compliance risks, priorities, regulatory developments, and strategic decisions.

Lead the on-site internal environmental audit program for functional compliance with Advan Six environmental procedures and ensure timely corrective and preventive actions.

Review capital projects, process changes, management of change activities, and maintenance projects for environmental permitting requirements, regulatory impacts, and internal HSE standards.

Support environmental aspects of emergency response, incident investigation, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and lessons learned.

Participate in periodic environmental on-call duty to provide weekend and after-hours coverage for environmental incidents, regulatory notifications, operational support, and emergency response needs.

Implement and maintain applicable American Chemistry Council Responsible Care and RC14001 environmental management system elements, including planning, implementation, checking, corrective action, management review, and continual improvement.

Establish environmental performance metrics, compliance assurance routines, management review materials, and reporting processes for site and corporate…