Representative, Environmental Air Quality

PureWest Resources•Denver, CO

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 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. It works closely with Environmental, Operations, Engineering, Production, Facilities, and other business groups to integrate environmental requirements into facility design, construction, operation, and modification. The position also serves as an environmental resource to operational and engineering stakeholders, conducts field visits to verify equipment and compliance conditions, supports audits and agency inspections, and helps investigate compliance issues and develop corrective actions. The stated minimum qualifications are for Environmental Representative II.

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 and upstream oil and gas experience, including WYDEQ Air Quality Division requirements, WAQSR, and BACT.
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 facilities, equipment, and operational or facility changes for air permitting and regulatory applicability under Wyoming and federal requirements.
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.
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 facility equipment and sources, including storage vessels, separators, dehydrators, compressors and engines, heaters, pneumatic devices and pumps, flares and combustors, loading, fugitives, venting, and blowdowns.
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.
Update databases for equipment installations, removals, replacements, modifications, and production changes to reflect field conditions.
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 and LDAR programs, including inspection, monitoring, repair, recordkeeping, and reporting.
Prepare regulatory reports, notifications, and submittals and maintain auditable records supporting compliance determinations.
Support internal audits and agency inspections; monitor regulatory developments and assess impacts to operations.
Communicate environmental requirements practically to field and engineering personnel and serve as a resource to Operations, Engineering, Production, Facilities, and other stakeholders.
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.