Senior Environmental Engineer

Title: Senior Environmental Engineer

Location: Pasadena TX

BASIC FUNCTION

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Monitors site performance against permit and other regulatory requirements and identifies opportunities to improve continuously
• 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
• Maintains plans and environmental records required for environmental compliance in an up-to-date condition
• Conducts routine site inspections of the Bayport facility to verify procedural compliance with regulatory requirements
• Monitors the status of environmental control equipment to verify the correct operation
• Provides environmental support to turnarounds and projects
• Review air, water, and solid waste regulations and assess their impact on Bayport.
• Provides annual training to Plant Personnel on waste handling and assists with training on other environmental topics.
• Participates in company-wide work groups as needed. Updates solid waste profiles, and handling procedures, coordinates waste removal from the site, and signs hazardous waste manifests.
• Oversees the efforts of contract personnel assisting with environmental compliance efforts
• Understands, supports, and complies with all plant safety policies and procedures, including the use of loss control software for loss control reporting and communication
• Responds to agency enforcement actions by providing quality information in a timely manner
• Hosts environmental inspections, provides requested information, and leads negotiations with regulatory agencies on environmental issues
• Submit required regulatory reports and forms
• Other duties as assigned

CORE VALUES

Must exhibit and demonstrate our 5 Core Values

• Caring: Dedicated to Safety, Employees, Customers, Community and Environment
• Trustworthy: Living a Culture of Openness, Honesty and Collaboration
• Focused: Creating Value by Delivering the Right Solutions
• Innovative: Daring to be different by finding New Ways
• Fun: Embracing our Diverse Family and Celebrating our Success

COMPETENCIES

• 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

Qualifications/Experience Required

• 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
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively

Preferred Qualification/Experience

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

Physical Capacity Requirements

This position requires the incumbent to:

• Follow safety requirements for the role including any use of personal equipment, aids, or tools
• Read technical procedures and materials in English
• Ability to read interpret and develop documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Wear mandatory FRC and PPE (foot, head, ear, eye, and hand protection) when inside the plant environment, or where directed by signage or procedure
• Routinely reacts to visual, aural, and other signals, including alarms and instructions, and is required to inspect work including at high elevations above grade visually
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Frequent bending, reaching, lifting, walking, and climbing
• Wear all required personal protective equipment, including but not limited to a respirator where directed by signage or where safety precautions are necessary
• Sit or stand for extended periods of time
• Work at the computer for significant periods of time throughout the day
• Required to reach overhead and at shoulder level with hands and arms
• The noise level in the work environment may be loud and requires that hearing protection be worn in identified areas
• Must demonstrate fine and gross hand manipulation including pinching, gripping, turning, and keyboarding
• Works in temperature extremes due to weather conditions and operating equipment
• Walk ½ a mile per job
• Move about all areas of the plant, including catwalks, deck grating, wet and muddy areas, and uneven surfaces
• Climbs and works at various heights and may work in a standing, sitting, lying down, crouched, or kneeling position
• Ascend and descend stairs and stationary vertical ladders as part of normal work activity and emergency situations
• Must be capable of lifting/carrying/pushing/pulling up to 25 pounds
• Access confined spaces and pressure vessels through standard 24" manways
• Climb up to 100 feet in height
• Additional requirements are required if a participant in the ERT program