HPN - Environmental Specialitist

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Regular Full-Time Technical White Plains, NY, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $27.00 To $29.00 Hourly

LOCATION: White Plains, New York

AIRPORT: Westchester County Airport

Under the general supervision of the Environmental Manager, the Environmental Specialist coordinates and monitors the airport’s environmental performance and requirements under the Airport Environmental Management System (AEMS), which is certified to the ISO 14001:2015 standard. The ideal candidate will have good customer service skills and have experience working with the public.

include the following, and other duties as may be assigned:

• Responsible for the performance of essential duties to ensure continued compliance with internal and external environmental mandates and obligations.
• Assist in the development of environmental programs, initiatives, and the continued improvement of our environmental management practices.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with the Westchester County Airport Environmental Policy in our overall commitment to ensure the continual improvement to our AEMS.
• Assist with AEMS facility audits, inspections, and training.
• Monitor and coordinate activities involving open spill sites, spill response, and working with our environmental consultant to attain final spill closure. Review all spill reports and clean-up events to ensure compliance with procedures, and to determine if any further work may be required for final spill closure.
• Monitor airport SPDES permit and Storm Water Pollution Prevention Permits, conduct monthly outfalls sampling, prepare monthly Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMR’s) for submission to the regulatory agencies, and perform facility Best Management Practices (BMP’s) and general housekeeping inspections.
• Oversee the Airport Recycling Program (Source Separation Law), and Pest Management Plan.
• Monitor aircraft deicing activities to ensure the operational integrity of spent deicing fluid collection systems and pre-treatment permit compliance. Coordinate the system removal and disposal of spent deicing with our trucking contractor, and ensure notification procedural compliance.
• Responsible for the oversite of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, universal waste, and conducting weekly inspections of airport maintenance satellite and main collection waste areas. Coordinate waste disposal and ensure proper material manifests and reporting requirements.
• Perform field maintenance tasks and inspections as directed by the Environmental Manager and enter results into the AEMS access/GIS data base and maintain information in the data base.
• Support the daily operations of the Environmental Department and the AEMS, assume operational responsibility in the absence of the Airport Environmental Manager.
• Act as a liaison with various airport tenants, contractors, aircraft operators, County departments, and environmental regulatory agencies.
• Act as an airside/landside escort for contractors, vendors and/or consultants for fieldwork.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working knowledge of the following:

• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), including specifically Hazardous Waste/Non-Hazardous Waste/Universal Waste storage, accumulation and manifesting requirements, along with reporting requirements
• Petroleum Bulk Storage (PBS) codes, inspection requirements, Underground Storage Tank (UST), Above Ground Storage Tank (AST) inspections, and SPCC Plan requirements
• Storm Water Management and NYDEC SPDES permits
• Air quality requirements, including permitting and ozone depleting substances
• Hazard Communications and Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know.
• Storm water inspections and requirements