Manager - Terminal Compliance, Risk, and Quality

Canal Barge Company•Channahon, IL

15h•Onsite

About The Position

The primary function is to own compliance, regulatory reporting, and product quality at Canal Terminal Company, and to identify and advise on the compliance and product risks present in terminal operations and in new business. The position maintains the terminal's permits, environmental programs, registrations, response plans, and regulatory reporting; leads environmental and quality incident investigations and corrective actions; owns the Product Quality Management program; and advises and reports on sustainability performance in conjunction with corporate. In new business, the position evaluates the regulatory and product risk presented by each opportunity and provides a documented recommendation to proceed or decline. The position defines the risks to be mitigated and provides them to the project management function, which determines how they are addressed in system design and project cost. Risk management discipline is critical in the position. The ability to identify, characterize, prioritize, and mitigate risk is applied across every accountability described below, and much of the resulting work is project oriented and managed as such. This is a site resident position in Channahon, IL. Success depends on being present in the terminal to respond and react as events occur, and the position is expected to be available to the operation on that basis. Its accountabilities further depend on sustained physical presence and detailed working knowledge of all storage and handling operations for 39 tanks, with inbound and outbound modes of barge, rail, and truck, as well as packaging into totes and drums, and laboratory operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, environmental science, or a related technical discipline.
Minimum of seven years of experience in bulk liquid terminal, chemical plant, refinery, or comparable operations, including at least three years in a regulatory compliance or risk management capacity.
Demonstrated risk management background, including formal risk assessment methodology, risk ranking, and evaluation of regulatory and product risk in new business. This is the central requirement of the position.
Working command of environmental and transportation compliance, including RCRA generator requirements, air permitting and emission calculation, NPDES and stormwater, SPCC and facility response planning, EPCRA and Tier II, FIFRA establishment registration, MTSA facility security, and DOT and PHMSA requirements. Familiarity with CFRs 21, 29, 33, 40, 46, and 49 CFR.
Demonstrated ownership of Agency reporting obligations, permit applications and renewals, and serving as a facility point of contact with regulatory agencies.
Demonstrated ownership of an incident investigation and corrective action program, including formal root cause methodology and verification of corrective action effectiveness.
Direct experience evaluating hazardous or reactive chemical products for acceptance, including chemical compatibility analysis, safety data sheet interpretation, and inhibitor and stabilizer chemistry.
Knowledge of industrial quality management systems and certification programs, and a chemistry background sufficient to direct product quality and product risk decisions.
Experience managing regulatory and environmental consultants, including scope definition, technical direction, and cost oversight.
Current 40 Hour HAZWOPER and hazardous waste training, valid driver's license, and ability to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential.
Ability to travel to the Canal Barge corporate office in New Orleans on at least a quarterly basis, with limited additional travel for industry meetings, training, and other company locations as required.

Nice To Haves

Laboratory experience preferred.
Familiarity with Responsible Care and SQF certification preferred.
Familiarity with sustainability reporting, including Scope 1 emissions accounting, preferred.
Professional certification such as Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Certified Safety Professional, or equivalent is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the terminal's regulatory compliance position across environmental, transportation, security, product, and facility requirements, and ensure that every permit, registration, program, and plan required for compliant operation is in place, current, and adhered to.
Determine regulatory applicability for terminal operations and for changes to them, monitor regulatory and industry developments, and translate new obligations into terminal requirements.
Own the compliance calendar and the systems that ensure no obligation, permit condition, inspection, or submission lapses.
Ensure ongoing CTC Responsible Care Partner certification. Serve as Responsible Care Coordinator and represent CTC with relevant industry and trade bodies.
Own all periodic and event driven reporting to regulatory agencies, and the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of what the terminal submits.
Own the terminal's compliance and incident records, including the integrity of the data held in the systems of record and the retention of documentation, so that CTC's compliance position is auditable at any time.
Deliver compliance and quality metrics and trends to the Vice President of Terminal Services and presents reports to the management team through the Quarterly Review cycle.
Own the terminal's audit programs, including internal, customer, and third-party audits as well as compliance with certifications and standards.
Serve as the terminal's point of contact with regulatory agencies, and manage applications, inspections, information requests, and enforcement correspondence.
Own the terminal’s air, water and waste management programs, including compliance with regulatory requirements.
Select, direct, and manage regulatory and environmental consultants, and own the quality and schedule of their work.
Own the incident management process end to end for spills, releases, environmental and compliance events, and customer quality non-conformances, carrying each from reporting and classification through investigation, corrective action, and closure, and uphold the standards to which an investigation is held.
Determine the investigation methodology and the reporting, tracking, and analysis systems appropriate to each event, and ensure that incident and corrective action data remains complete and consistent across whatever platforms are in use.
Own the corrective and preventive action register across all sources of findings and verify the effectiveness of corrective action rather than its completion.
Own the spill prevention and response program required by federal and state regulations, including the associated plans, designations, drills, and notification obligations.
Own the evaluation of regulatory and product risk in new business and provide the Leadership Team with a documented recommendation to proceed, proceed with conditions, or decline.
Define the conditions of acceptance and the risks to be mitigated, and hand them to the project management function, which determines how they are addressed in system design and project cost. Verify that the required controls are in place before first receipt.
Own the risk assessment and management of change processes for the facility and provide analyses supporting growth, acquisition, and due diligence activity.
Own the procedure, training, and documentation prerequisites for accepting a new product, to be completed before the first receipt.
Own the Product Quality Management program.
Own product quality verification across storage and transfer operations, and the technical management of quality sensitive products.
Own customer quality non-conformance investigation and resolution.
Serve as the technical link between the laboratory, terminal operations, logistics, business development manager, and customers on matters of product quality and product risk.
Own CTC sustainability measurement and reporting, including Scope 1 emissions.
Advise the Leadership Team on sustainability matters, and advance CTC sustainability initiatives in conjunction with corporate.
Manage the work of this position as projects, including permit applications and renewals, regulatory program builds and remediation, certification cycles, management system implementations, consultant participation in projects, and initiatives arising from audit and corrective action findings.
Collaborate on risk assessments and the management of change process supporting capital projects owned by others.
Own the standard operating procedure system, including version control, review cadence, approval routing, and the link to training records. Operations authors and revises task content; this position owns the system and sets the cadence.
Own compliance and quality policies and programs.
Perform other duties as required and directed by the Vice President of Terminal Services, and carry out the Business Philosophy, Code of Conduct, and Mission of Canal Barge.