Water Quality & Env Compliance Lead

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Water Quality & Env Compliance Lead

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Salary Range: $68,640 to $114,600

Benefits include 401(k), Defined Contribution Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, medical, prescription, dental, vision, disability, paid time off, life insurance, voluntary benefits, health and wellness programs and more.

Primary Role

Leads multiple operations or programs to continually meet all applicable environmental regulations. Provides technical knowledge and guidance on wastewater treatment, permitting, regulatory compliance reporting and corrective actions.

Key Accountabilities

• Gives technical guidance to operations regarding wastewater, water quality, and environmental compliance related issues.

• Collaborates with plant and laboratory staff, ensuring communication across working groups, and appropriate sampling procedures for testing are met. Recommends process improvements and procedures to maintain adherence to wastewater, water, and various environmental permits and regulations.

• Ensures compliance with applicable wastewater and environmental regulatory permits.

• Assists local, State, and Federal regulatory agencies during inspections. Responds (on-call) to wastewater, water quality, and environmental compliance problems, taking appropriate corrective action including documentation to advise management.

• Assures that policies, programs, standards of performance and approved objectives related to wastewater, water quality, and environmental compliance are adhered to. Prepares, reviews, and submits necessary regulatory reports to governing bodies. Works with Operations staff on receipt of chemical supplies to ensure adequate supply, monitoring equipment, and chemical feeds to maintain standards. Supervises the training of plant operating staff and other personnel in chemical handling practices, permit requirements, and environmental initiatives.

• Supports wastewater activities related to the Environmental Management Program to ensure compliance with applicable regulations are continually met. Plans, prepares and controls the portion of the financial plan related to area of responsibility. Conducts special projects.

Knowledge & Skills

• Advanced knowledge of wastewater treatment practice is required.

• Must have advanced knowledge of wastewater, water and environmental regulations affecting the business.

• Must have strong familiarity with various wastewater treatment technologies and instrumentation used in the business.

• Ability to analyze complex situations and propose viable solutions.

• Experienced in data analysis, regulatory reporting, and interfacing and reporting to a variety of regulatory agencies.

• Must understand principles of water and wastewater treatment and be able to troubleshoot systems.

• Process, project, and program management skills; quantitative skills (e.g., analytical, technical, problem solving); effective people management; written and verbal communications; interpersonal skills.

Experience / Education

• Bachelor Degree required. Master’s preferred.

• Minimum four (4) years’ experience in wastewater, and/or water, and/or laboratory operations preferred.

• Valid driver's license is required.

• Previous experience managing teams is preferred.

• Knowledge of environmental compliance regulations required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required.

Travel Requirements

• 35% - 50% travel within the Big Island and Oahu. May need to travel to mainland (CA and NJ occasionally).

Work Environment

• General office with field work as required.

• Role will require to be onsite 5 days a week.

Competencies

• Champions safety

• Customer obsessed

• Cultivates innovation

• Nimble learning

• Drives Results

• Collaborates

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Quality Assurance

Industries

• Utilities

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