Environmental Specialist - Waste & Water

Indorama Ventures•Springfield, MA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Specialist is responsible for maintaining compliance with federal, Louisiana, and facility requirements governing wastewater, stormwater, hazardous and nonhazardous waste, used oil, universal waste, and spill prevention. The specialist supports the site’s ethylene manufacturing operations, wastewater-treatment system, maintenance activities, laboratories, contractors, and capital projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in environmental science or related field is Required.
Minimum of 3-10 years’ relevant environmental or sustainability experience in a petrochemical/refining facility and/or corporate office.
Must have a level of proficiency with SAP, Internet, Email, and Microsoft Office programs.
Experience with State of Louisiana environmental requirements required.
Experience with RCRA regulations, SPCC, general knowledge of Clean Water Act.

Nice To Haves

Experience with TCEQ Regulatory Databases preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary environmental contact for the facility’s Louisiana Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, or LPDES, permit.
Maintain a detailed compliance calendar containing all sampling, monitoring, inspection, certification, notification and reporting deadlines.
Review the LPDES permit and translate its requirements into operating procedures, sampling plans and operator checklists.
Review wastewater-treatment data, laboratory results and operating trends.
Identify results approaching permit limits and initiate corrective action before an exceedance occurs.
Validate flow totals, composite-sampling periods and monthly-average calculations.
Prepare, review and submit Discharge Monitoring Reports through EPA NetDMR or the applicable LDEQ reporting system.
Administer the facility’s industrial stormwater requirements and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, or SWPPP.
Maintain and implement the facility Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure plan where applicable.
Serve as the facility’s program owner or principal technical resource for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Manage nonhazardous industrial waste, wastewater-treatment sludge, contaminated soil, spent chemicals, debris, scrap materials and other plant wastes.
Conduct routine field inspections of wastewater, stormwater and waste-management activities.
Perform formal compliance audits against: LPDES permit conditions, RCRA requirements, Louisiana hazardous- and solid-waste regulations, SWPPP requirements, SPCC requirements, Facility environmental procedures.
Maintain the environmental compliance calendar.
Maintain electronic and hard-copy records according to regulatory and corporate retention requirements.
Ensure data is entered into corporate systems agrees with source documents and agency reports.
Track at minimum: Wastewater flow and analytical results, DMR calculations and submissions, Stormwater inspections and sampling, Waste generation and shipment quantities, Waste profiles and determinations, Manifests and disposal certificates, Inspection findings, Spill events, Training completion, Instrument calibration, Corrective-action status.