Senior Environmental Engineer
About The Position
The Senior HSE Engineer supports the Health, Safety, & Environmental Team, with a primary focus on ensuring upstream oil and gas processes operate safely and responsibly in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations. The role provides engineering technical leadership and compliance project oversight for safety and environmental risks, including air emissions quantification and control; waste and wastewater characterization and treatment; subsurface contamination analysis and remediation; HSE risk quantification and advisement for malfunctions and upset conditions; and pipeline and process risk controls. The Senior HSE Engineer performs or coordinates detailed testing, monitoring, and modeling to determine the composition of hazardous chemicals in air emissions and wastes. The role applies engineering analysis to evaluate regulatory applicability and compliance, provides quality assurance and review for major HSE projects, and supports legal counsel as a technical expert on HSE risk quantification and control. The position also provides technical support and training to staff, coordinates emissions testing and sampling projects, manages air permit applications and related agency correspondence for assigned regions, and works with operations and facility engineering teams to integrate HSE compliance into facility design and installation. Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Environmental, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.
- Registered Professional Environmental Engineer.
- At least five years of environmental engineering experience.
- Experience supporting E&P and multi-site environmental compliance.
- Experience with data management and analysis systems such as Spotfire or SQL.
- Acceptable pre-employment background and drug test.
- Effective project management skills.
- Advanced mathematical, process chemistry, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Advanced knowledge of oil and gas production and processing equipment.
- Advanced working knowledge and experience with complex Excel functions, process simulations, and agency-specified models.
- Demonstrated communication, accountability, trust-building, collaboration, self-awareness, planning and prioritization, and results-oriented capabilities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with process simulation software such as ProMax.
- Experience with dehydration unit simulation software such as GlyCalc.
- Experience with air dispersion modeling software.
- Experience with EPA Reference Method stack or emission testing.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and implement tools and processes to model air emissions; train staff on emission calculation techniques; and provide QA/QC review of staff emission calculations.
- Provide on-call analysis of environmental risks and compliance status related to equipment or process malfunctions, and assist with developing corrective actions.
- Develop technical justifications for emission calculations in response to regulatory agency inquiries and represent the company during permit limitation negotiations.
- Provide engineering analysis and technical leadership regarding groundwater and subsurface remediation risks.
- Provide engineering analysis and technical leadership regarding waste stream characterization, treatment, and compliance options.
- Provide engineering analysis and technical leadership to support Health & Safety and PHMSA compliance staff.
- Attend operations meetings and build relationships with corporate-office operations staff and field-based leadership.
- Collaborate with Facility Engineering and Operations during facility design and installation to ensure equipment and operating conditions satisfy HSE compliance regulations.
- Maintain current working knowledge of applicable local, state, and federal oil and gas regulations, particularly requirements for air emission control, waste and wastewater management, remediation, and emergency release reporting.
- Manage preparation of air permit applications and serve as the primary contact for related regulatory agency correspondence in assigned regions.
- Support responses to and meetings with state and federal agencies regarding alleged HSE violations and other issues.
- Coordinate and oversee emissions performance testing and oil and gas sampling projects.
- Develop and deliver environmental compliance training to company personnel.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
