Senior Environmental Engineer

GHD Group Pty Ltd•Phoenix, AZ

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Bring your curiosity and determination to make a positive impact on the future of transport, and we’ll help you go all the way! Join our team of globally connected specialists to help solve complex transport challenges and experience groundbreaking projects from idea to delivery, and beyond. Our pledge to you. Join GHD. Who are we looking for? The US West Environment Market is a critical component of GHD’s overall growth strategy in the Americas. The US West Region is looking to bring onboard a motivated Senior Environmental Engineer to lead expansion of GHD’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Compliance practice in the West. This position is located in our Phoenix, AZ office. The EHS Compliance business focuses on assisting our clients with compliance requirements from entities such as the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), other federal entities, and any state or local requirements that exceed those standards. Services offered in the Environmental Compliance space include Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP), Spill Prevention Control and Containment Plans (SPCC), Title V Air Permitting, Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), Tier II reporting for the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) and more. Our clients are a mix of public and private organizations in the Petroleum, Oil, Gas, Government (Federal, State, Municipal), Chemical and Industrial Manufacturing, Mining, Energy, Transport, Emergency Services, Agriculture, Developers and Legal sectors. As Senior Environmental Engineer you will provide technical and delivery leadership of the EHS Compliance projects for our clients throughout the West. This position will work from our Phoenix, AZ office. Mentorship and development of junior staff is a critical component of the role. There is opportunity for travel to project sites in other areas and to provide desktop support for projects in other regions, domestically and internationally. Bring your curiosity and passion to the technical challenges we solve at GHD. Then see how everyone gets behind you. With commitment, there’s no idea too big, no dream too far. We strive to create opportunity for all. Giving you leading training and development programs to accelerate your growth. Come and see where your career can take you and the impact your commitment can make. Our Hybrid Work Model: Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering
Minimum 10 years experience in the field
PE required

Responsibilities

Needs Assessment: Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues.
Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.
Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
Engineering Solutions Design: Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, aesthetics, and cost) that conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards.
Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers, contractors, and consultants.
Knowledge Management: Develop policies and processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice.
Health, Safety, and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health, safety, and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organization's HSE policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions.
Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users’ needs.
Professional Supervision: Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision to ensure that there is effective professional supervision that supports practitioners' professional development and embeds reflective practice.
Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
Waste Management: Manage specific segments of waste management, involving waste reduction programs, waste segregation, compliance, storage, transport, and disposal.
Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues, or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.