Environmental Engineer

JOB TITLE: SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER

• Provides regulatory expertise, coaching, and hands-on support to drive environmental compliance, permitting, and regulatory reviews.
• Plans and performs required activities to maintain compliance with air, water, solid waste, and wetlands regulations.
• Activities include preparing permit applications and renewals, regulatory reports, defining programs and procedures, maintaining records, maintaining compliance assurance, training, and regulatory reviews.

• Prepare permit applications, amendments, and renewals including NSR non-attainment, Title V, NSPS.
• Perform regulatory applicability reviews, NOCS, and required plans such as SWPPP, SPCC, etc.
• Monitor activities required to maintain and demonstrate regulatory compliance with air, stormwater, potable water, solid waste, and wetlands rules.
• Provide regulatory expertise, coaching, and hands-on support to drive environmental compliance. Monitor site performance against permit and other regulatory requirements and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Duties include a large number of scheduled periodic reporting requirements internally as well as to federal, state, and local agencies.
• Responsible for maintaining contingency plans required by regulatory rules and conducting periodic site inspections to monitor compliance with these requirements.
• Review new and updated rules, determine plant impacts, and propose procedural changes to comply.
• Train personnel and conduct audits to verify compliance.
• Maintain plans and environmental records required for environmental compliance in an up-to-date condition.
• Conduct routine site inspections of the Bayport facility to verify procedural compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Monitor the status of environmental control equipment to verify correct operation.
• Provide environmental support to turnarounds and projects.
• Review air, water, and solid waste regulations and assess their impact on Bayport.
• Provide annual training to Plant Personnel on waste handling and assist with training on other environmental topics.
• Participate in company-wide work groups as needed. Update solid waste profiles, handling procedures, coordinate waste removal from the site, and sign hazardous waste manifests.
• Oversee the efforts of contract personnel assisting with environmental compliance efforts.
• Understand, support, and comply with all plant safety policies and procedures, including the use of loss control software for loss control reporting and communication.
• Respond to agency enforcement actions by providing quality information in a timely manner.
• Host environmental inspections, provide requested information, and lead negotiations with regulatory agencies on environmental issues.
• Submit required regulatory reports and forms.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Job Knowledge
  - Understands facets of the job, is aware of duties and responsibilities, keeps job knowledge current.
• Productivity
  - Manages workload, works efficiently, meets goals and objectives.
• Quality
  - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve product/services.
• Safety – HSSE
  - Works in a safe manner, uses PPE, recognizes hazards, makes safety suggestions and observations, current on Training Mine.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical or Environmental Engineering (Other technical degrees will be considered depending upon the experience level of the individual).
• 5 or more years of experience in related field, knowledge/experience of state and federal environmental regulations, and ability to acquire knowledge of plant operations.
• Must be willing to obtain TCEQ Visible Emissions Evaluator Certification and a TCEQ Class D Water Operator License.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Experience with in a petrochemical, refining, or chemical manufacturing facility.
• Experience directly interfacing with state or federal regulatory agencies.
• Experience working with operators, maintenance technicians, and engineers.

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