Environmental Compliance Specialist

Environmental Compliance Specialist II

The Environmental Compliance Specialist II is responsible for supporting wastewater, stormwater, air quality, and hazardous chemical programs designed to ensure continuous improvement for achieving regulatory compliance with environmental permits, while also developing, communicating, and implementing initiatives to consistently improve sustainability goals, maximizing operating efficiencies, and profitability.

• Regulatory Compliance:
  • Collect, analyze, and report required data and documentation for wastewater, stormwater, and air permit compliance programs across multiple states, counties, and regulatory agencies.
  • Support the chemical management program through accurate documentation and designation of hazardous waste disposal events, storage, labeling, and reporting.
  • Continuously audit and identify compliance gaps, improvement opportunities, and ineffective systems or processes across different operating groups, and work collaboratively with the EHS team to implement efficient and effective solutions.
  • Maintain accurate and timely communication with internal and external stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, about environmental compliance.
• Training:
  • Contribute to the development of processes/programs to train and engage with personnel at individual operating locations to ensure consistent compliance procedures, communicate best practices, and meet internal sustainability and conservation goals.
  • Commit to constant training and professional development and seek ways to expand knowledge, and technical skills to remain up to date on environmental regulations and responsibilities.
• Recordkeeping:
  • Maintain environmental compliance records as required by applicable law and/or Pacific’s internal Records Retention Policy.
  • Compile compliance and conservation data to conduct analyses for identifying compliance gaps, detecting savings opportunities, and overall advancement of EHS goals and initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Environmental Engineering, Physical Science, Environmental Science, or other related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Three or more years of experience in environmental compliance with proven record of excellent performance.
• Two or more years of experience with hazardous waste regulations, such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hazardous materials standards.
• Strong computer skills in MS Office, with proven ability to write routine reports, technical summaries, and regulatory correspondences.

• Master’s degree in environmental engineering, physical science, environmental science, or other related disciplines from an accredited college or university.
• Prior experience with environmental permitting and compliance in the seafood industry highly desired.

• Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Grasping. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which you must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

• Typical office environment.
• Work around standard office and PC equipment.
• Wet and/or humid conditions in…