Corporate Environmental Manager

Florida Crystals / ASR Group • Arabi, LA

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The Corporate Environmental Manager provides technical leadership, project support, and regulatory expertise across the company’s refining operations and non-refining locations, primarily in North America. The role serves as a corporate resource for environmental compliance, permitting, capital projects, and environmental management systems.

Working with site environmental managers, operations leadership, engineering teams, legal counsel, and corporate stakeholders, the manager supports compliance initiatives, leads development of corporate environmental programs and standards, and helps sites address complex regulatory and operational challenges. The position ensures environmental requirements are incorporated into capital projects, supports permitting strategies, promotes consistency across environmental programs, and helps improve environmental performance throughout the organization.

The position is based in Chalmette, Louisiana, with approximately 25–40% travel to operating facilities, project sites, regulatory meetings, and corporate locations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Management, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 6 years of progressive environmental compliance experience in manufacturing, refining, chemical processing, food processing, power generation, or other heavily regulated industrial operations.
• Experience managing environmental permitting and compliance programs across multiple facilities.
• Experience supporting environmental aspects of capital projects from concept through implementation.
• Demonstrated experience developing corporate environmental programs, standards, or management systems.
• Experience interacting with regulatory agencies and leading compliance initiatives.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong technical problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across functional and geographic boundaries.
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical operational solutions.
• Comfort working independently while supporting multiple sites and stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of air permitting and compliance, wastewater and NPDES permitting, stormwater compliance, hazardous waste and RCRA requirements, spill prevention and emergency response programs, environmental auditing and management systems, environmental due diligence and project permitting, and federal, state/provincial, and local environmental regulations.
• Approximately 25–40% travel to operating facilities, project sites, regulatory meetings, and corporate locations.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Knowledge of Title V air permitting and compliance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and project teams to evaluate environmental requirements for capital and operational projects.
• Support environmental due diligence and regulatory reviews during project planning and design.
• Identify permitting needs and regulatory approval requirements early in project development.
• Coordinate and support preparation of permit applications, permit modifications, and regulatory submissions.
• Assist sites with air, water, wastewater, stormwater, hazardous waste, chemical management, and other environmental permitting activities.
• Ensure environmental compliance considerations are integrated throughout project execution and startup.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve corporate environmental policies, standards, procedures, and management system requirements.
• Partner with site personnel to adapt corporate requirements into site-specific procedures and implementation tools.
• Support implementation of environmental management systems and corporate compliance initiatives.
• Develop guidance documents, compliance tools, training materials, and best-practice resources.
• Provide technical and regulatory support to operating facilities on complex environmental compliance matters.
• Assist sites in evaluating and responding to permit exceedances, regulatory inspections, notices of violation, enforcement actions, and compliance investigations.
• Support root cause evaluations and development of effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Interpret environmental regulations and communicate compliance obligations to site personnel.
• Monitor emerging environmental regulations, industry trends, and regulatory developments that may affect operations.
• Evaluate regulatory risks and recommend compliance strategies and mitigation measures.
• Support interactions with regulatory agencies and external stakeholders, as appropriate.
• Participate in environmental compliance audits, environmental management system assessments, and program reviews.
• Track compliance performance trends and identify opportunities for systemic improvement.
• Support development and implementation of corporate corrective action programs, and share lessons learned and best practices across operating locations.
• Provide direct on-site support during significant compliance events, major projects, audits, regulatory inspections, or operational challenges.
• Provide fill-in responsibilities to cover site Environmental Manager absences.
• Support onboarding and development of environmental personnel across the organization.
• Travel approximately 25–40% to operating facilities, project sites, regulatory meetings, and corporate locations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior