Representative, Environmental Air Quality

PureWest Resources Inc•Denver, CO

5d•$110,000 - $125,000

About The Position

The Environmental Representative – Air Quality supports air quality permitting, emissions management, regulatory compliance, and environmental data-management programs for upstream oil and natural gas operations. The role evaluates air permitting and regulatory applicability, prepares emissions calculations and inventories, maintains facility and equipment information in environmental and asset-management systems, prepares regulatory submittals, and supports compliance with state and federal air quality requirements. The position works with Environmental, Operations, Engineering, Production, Facilities, and other business groups to integrate environmental requirements into facility design, construction, operation, and modification. It also provides practical guidance to field and engineering personnel, conducts field visits, supports audits and inspections, investigates compliance issues, and assists with training. The stated minimum qualifications are for Environmental Representative II. The role requires a relevant bachelor's degree and approximately 8–10 years of progressively responsible environmental experience with a significant air-quality component. Wyoming air-quality permitting and upstream oil and gas experience are strongly preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Chemical or Mechanical Engineering, Atmospheric Science, or a related technical discipline.
Approximately 8–10 years of progressively responsible environmental experience with a significant air-quality component.
Demonstrated experience with air permitting, emissions calculations and inventories, and regulatory compliance.
Working knowledge of the federal Clean Air Act and state air-quality permitting programs.
Ability to independently manage permitting and compliance assignments with limited supervision.
Strong analytical, organizational, technical-writing, and communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to work with Operations and Engineering to resolve environmental issues and incorporate regulatory requirements into projects.
Experience coordinating consultants and reviewing technical work products.
Ability to mentor junior personnel.

Nice To Haves

Wyoming air-quality permitting and compliance experience, including familiarity with WYDEQ Air Quality Division requirements, WAQSR, and BACT.
Upstream oil and gas experience.
Experience with NSPS OOOO/OOOOa/OOOOb, NESHAP, greenhouse-gas reporting, LDAR/OGI, methane-management programs, continuous methane monitoring, and emerging methane regulations.
Experience with ProMax, E&P Tanks, GRI-GLYCalc, or similar emissions tools.
Experience with environmental management systems, asset-management and production databases, GIS, Power BI, SQL, or similar platforms, including automating compliance workflows.

Responsibilities

Prepare air permit applications, modifications, registrations, notifications, and supporting technical documentation.
Evaluate new facilities, equipment, and operational or facility changes for air permitting and regulatory applicability under Wyoming and federal requirements, including WAQSR and the Clean Air Act, NSPS, and NESHAP.
Review proposed projects and Management of Change activities to identify permitting and compliance requirements before construction or implementation.
Obtain equipment specifications, operating parameters, production forecasts, and throughput assumptions from Engineering and Operations for permitting.
Coordinate with regulatory agencies and consultants on applications, information requests, and inspections.
Prepare and review criteria pollutant, VOC, HAP, and greenhouse-gas potential-to-emit and actual-emissions calculations for upstream oil and gas facilities.
Calculate emissions from storage vessels, separators, dehydrators, compressors and engines, heaters, pneumatic devices and pumps, flares and combustors, loading, fugitives, venting, blowdowns, and other sources.
Apply regulatory methodologies, emission factors, process simulation results, and vendor data; perform QA/QC and reconcile calculations against production, equipment, and asset records.
Prepare state emissions inventories and other periodic emissions reports.
Maintain accurate environmental, facility, equipment, permitting, and compliance data in company databases, including facility configurations and equipment inventories.
Update databases to reflect equipment installations, removals, replacements, modifications, and production changes.
Coordinate environmental data across asset-management, production, engineering, GIS, and other systems; perform routine QA/QC to identify missing, duplicate, or outdated data.
Develop compliance tracking tools, reports, and dashboards, and identify opportunities to automate data-management and compliance workflows.
Evaluate facility compliance with air permits and state and federal requirements, including NSPS, MACT, NESHAP, and GHG Reporting.
Support fugitive emissions/LDAR programs, including inspection, monitoring, repair, recordkeeping, and reporting.
Prepare regulatory reports, notifications, and submittals; maintain auditable records supporting compliance determinations.
Support internal audits and agency inspections; monitor regulatory developments and assess impacts to operations.
Serve as an environmental resource to Operations, Engineering, Production, Facilities, and other stakeholders, communicating requirements practically to field and engineering personnel.
Conduct field visits to verify equipment inventories, facility configurations, emissions controls, and compliance conditions.
Assist in investigating compliance issues and developing corrective actions; coordinate consultants and third-party service providers.
Support environmental compliance training for Operations and other personnel.
Perform other duties as assigned.