Environmental Engineer

Description

Pay Rate: PL12

Pay Rate: $94,880 - $118,600

Multiple factors, including individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range. Variable pay may provide additional opportunities for financial awards. This job is eligible to participate in IP’s short‑term incentive plan.

Salaried Full‑Time

238 Mays Bridge Rd SW, Rome, GA 30165

The Rome Mill is a complex, fully integrated pulp and paper manufacturing facility with two paper machines. The mill includes multiple process lines of wood handling, pulping, power and recovery, and effluent treatment. The scope of the position includes implementing, coordinating, maintaining, monitoring, and improving the progress of environmental programs across the mill. Primary focus will be to assist with managing day‑to‑day and some long‑term activities for the mill’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), solid and hazardous waste programs, chemicals in transportation program, and landfill operation.

The position works within the HSE group and reports to the Environmental Manager, and has responsibility for oversight of the onsite wastewater laboratory and technicians.

The Environmental Engineer’s duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, working with the Environmental Team to:

• Provide regulatory guidance to mill operations, maintenance, and management on a day‑to‑day, or as needed basis. Ensuring that the mill is aligned with corporate initiatives and priorities, assuring compliance with IP expectations.
• Drive continuous and deliberate improvements including systems development to ensure environmental compliance and prevent problems.
• Ensure completion of required compliance reports for wastewater, solid waste, and chemical management (i.e. NetDMR, Water Withdrawal, Tier II, Hazardous Waste, etc.).
• Support operating teams navigating regulatory concerns, provide necessary compliance training to salaried and hourly teams.
• Implement systems and processes to improve/sustain results for mill EMS systems.
• Serve as liaison between the organization on and regulatory agencies concerned with environmental control.
• Serve on Health, Safety & Environmental weekend rotation team.
• Participate in environmental compliance audits and assists the site in closing the gaps identified.
• Chemical approvals for environmental.
• Attend operational departmental meetings.
• Prepare, review, update and submit environmental inspections and reports.
• Participate as a member of HSE department; maintain strong relationships with other business unit personnel as well as operating and maintenance department leaders.
• Work with mill engineering and operations to evaluate capital projects for potential permitting needs as well as projects for the wastewater and solid waste processes.
• Provide environmental outage coordination, both for routine and annual outages.
• Act as IP representative for contractors providing services within HSE department, complete IPCC training.
• Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results.
• Complete safety work observations to ensure internal and external resources are complying with safe work practices, HSE work plans.
• Develop corrective action plans to address systematic gaps.
• Participate and lead in the development of Environmental Management System procedures, Key Element Surveys (KES) programs.
• Actively use and improve upon existing systems for managing daily activities, including development of standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Initiate and facilitate problem solving through trouble‑cause‑correction processes (TCC).
• Understand and promote Manufacturing Excellence (ME) tools and processes; participate and lead ME improvement initiatives in the department.
• Support 5S and housekeeping programs for the area and drive improvement projects, audit systems, and excellent results (i.e. Hazardous/Universal waste buildings, Day Lab, etc.).

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental sciences, or related field required.
• Two plus years of environmental compliance/management experience in a manufacturing environment…