Environmental Engineer

Job Description

Pay Rate: PL12 $ 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.

Category/Shift: Salaried Full-Time

Physical

Location:

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.

• 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.
• Serves as liaison between the organization on and regulatory agencies concerned with environmental control
• Serve on Health, Safety & Environmental weekend rotation team.
• Participates in environmental compliance audits and assists the site in closing the gaps identified
• Chemical approvals for environmental
• Attend operational departmental meetings
• Prepares, reviews, updates and submits environmental inspections and reports
• Participating as a member of HSE department; maintaining strong relationships with other business unit personnel as well as operating and maintenance department leaders
• Working with mill engineering and operations to evaluate capital projects for potential permitting needs as well as projects for the wastewater and solid waste processes
• Providing environmental outage coordination, both for routine and annual outages
• Acting as IP representative for contractors providing services within HSE department, complete IPCC training
• Providing visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results
• Completing safety work observations to ensure internal and external resources are complying with safe work practices, HSE work plans
• Developing Corrective Actions Plans to address systematic gaps
• Participating and leading in the development of Environmental Management System procedures, Key Element Surveys (KES) programs
• Actively using and improving upon existing systems for managing daily activities, including development of standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Initiating and facilitating problem solving through trouble-cause-correction processes (TCC)
• Understanding and promoting Manufacturing Excellence (ME) tools and processes; participating and leading ME improvement initiatives in the department
• Supporting 5S and housekeeping programs for the area and driving 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 (pulp and paper industry preferred).
• Water/wastewater Laboratory supervision experience…