Senior Environmental Compliance Specialist

About the Role

The Senior Environmental Compliance Specialist joins an existing team of engineers, analysts, and laboratory professionals focused on optimizing the performance of the division’s municipal wastewater treatment plants. The position allocates 100% of their time to environmental compliance of elements beyond municipal wastewater NPDES permits, including Hazardous Waste, Air Emissions, EPCRA, USTs, SPCC, Industrial Stormwater, and Municipal Stormwater.

• Visit all WTD operational facilities, review existing programs and documentation, and meet with operators, engineers, and mechanics. Complete a gap assessment between the requirements and the current activities.
• Design, implement, and improve programs to help WTD comply with state and federal regulations and applicable permits.
• Develop a network across the King County divisions. Where it makes business sense, push to standardize compliance approaches.
• Identify risk and communicate risk to leadership.
• Partner with the first-line worker force to understand their needs and constraints. Explain the why behind new initiatives or changes. Build programs that are as easy to implement as possible.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited course of study, in environmental engineering, environmental science, environmental management, biology, chemistry or a related field.
• Direct hands‑on experience with developing, sustaining, and implementing environmental compliance programs.
• Direct experience reading and interpreting permits and regulations.
• Direct work or audit experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment.
• Experience collecting, understanding, analyzing and interpreting data in a professional environment.
• Experience interfacing directly with environmental regulatory agencies.
• Experience communicating risks and plans to senior leadership.

• 8+ years of experience in a full‑time regulatory compliance role.
• Experience developing and sustaining environmental compliance programs within Washington State.
• PE, CHMM, or similar credential.

• Valid unencumbered Washington State Driver’s License.

• Customer Focus:
  Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Collaborates:
  Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates Effectively:
  Developing and delivering multi‑mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Action Oriented:
  Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Plans and Aligns:
  Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Optimizes Work Processes:
  Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

• Potential exposure to chemicals, noise, confined space, odor, fall hazards, and viral contaminants.

Work must be performed in Washington state at one of the following locations: 1200 Monster Rd SW, Renton, WA 98057; 22505 WA‑9, Woodinville, WA 98072; 1400 Discovery Park Blvd, Seattle, WA 9819. Employees must reside in Washington state and be able to respond to workplace reporting requirements.

Work schedule is a 40‑hour work week with flexible options. The position is exempt from overtime under the FLSA.

King County is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer. No person is unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or other protected class. Our EEO policy applies to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, selection for training, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation.