Principal Environmental Engineer - Regional

Kelvion•Catoosa, OK

About The Position

The Principal Environmental Engineer – Regional serves as Kelvion’s senior environmental technical authority for the Americas. The role establishes regional environmental strategies and governance, interprets complex regulatory requirements, directs high-impact compliance and sustainability initiatives, and advises business and operational leaders on environmental risk. It provides technical leadership across manufacturing plants, service sites, and offsite service work while driving consistent standards, measurable performance improvement, and reduction of Kelvion’s environmental footprint. The position requires 30% travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related technical field.
10–15+ years of progressively responsible environmental compliance and engineering experience, including significant multi-site or regional responsibility in a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated experience serving as a senior technical authority, leading complex regulatory matters, and advising senior business or operational leaders.
Expert knowledge of environmental regulatory programs, permitting, management systems, and compliance assurance in complex industrial operations.
Ability to interpret ambiguous or evolving requirements, assess enterprise risk, and establish defensible technical positions.
Strategic leadership across multiple sites, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive results without direct authority.
Advanced capability in environmental data analysis, emissions calculations, risk prioritization, executive reporting, and business-case development.
Strong understanding of manufacturing processes.
Demonstrated success leading complex environmental projects, regulatory engagements, sustainability initiatives, and organizational change.
Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including communication with executives, regulators, customers, and technical audiences.
Ability to mentor technical professionals, build communities of practice, and establish consistent standards across geographically dispersed operations.
Ability to meet the physical demands described, with reasonable accommodations available: frequently standing and reaching with hands, arms, and shoulders; occasionally walking, sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, talking and hearing, and hand-lifting or moving objects up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Experience in heat exchanger, pressure vessel, HVAC, metal fabrication, or comparable heavy industry.
CHMM (Certified Hazardous Materials Manager), Professional Engineer (PE), or comparable advanced environmental credential.
Advanced experience implementing and improving ISO 14001 or comparable environmental management systems across multiple locations.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior environmental technical authority for the Americas, maintaining knowledge of operational processes, compliance conditions, environmental risks, and improvement priorities across manufacturing and service locations.
Establish and govern the regional environmental compliance framework for applicable federal, state, provincial, and local requirements, including air, wastewater, stormwater, hazardous materials, and waste.
Interpret complex regulations and translate requirements into practical standards, controls, and accountability for operating locations.
Direct regional permitting strategy, compliance reporting, internal assurance reviews, and responses to regulatory inspections, notices, and emerging requirements.
Advise regional and site leadership on environmental risk, capital planning, acquisitions, operational changes, and business decisions with material environmental implications.
Lead cross-functional assessments of manufacturing processes and set multi-year priorities to reduce emissions, water use, chemical consumption, waste, and environmental liability.
Sponsor or lead high-impact pollution prevention, remediation, and process-improvement initiatives across multiple sites.
Define regional technical standards for waste characterization, storage, labeling, transportation, disposal, vendor qualification, and reporting.
Provide final environmental review for significant new chemicals, materials, equipment, and process changes.
Drive recycling, circularity, and waste-reduction programs and ensure their adoption across the region.
Oversee evaluation and calculation of air emissions from welding, thermal processes, coating operations, and other sources, ensuring sound methodologies and defensible records.
Provide technical direction for wastewater treatment, discharge compliance, water conservation, and reuse initiatives.
Shape and lead regional energy-efficiency, decarbonization, and environmental sustainability roadmaps aligned with corporate goals.
Own and continuously improve regional environmental procedures, work instructions, management-system elements, and compliance records.
Develop environmental capability through executive briefings, technical coaching, training, and mentoring of HSE and operational professionals.
Lead or provide senior technical oversight for investigations of significant spills, releases, nonconformances, and systemic compliance failures, including root-cause analysis and corrective action.
Define regional environmental performance indicators, validate data quality, identify trends, and present risk and performance insights to senior leadership.
Govern ESG, sustainability, and customer environmental data submissions for the Americas and support enterprise reporting requirements.
Represent the Americas region in global environmental forums and influence enterprise standards, tools, and strategic priorities.
Lead major HSE management-system initiatives and serve as a trusted advisor to the Americas HSE team and business leaders.
Perform other duties consistent with the scope and level of the role.