Senior Environmental Specialist

Ecolab•Garyville, LA

7d•$101,400 - $152,100•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Environmental Specialist is responsible for supporting the plant’s environmental program. This position reports to the SH&E Manager. The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar or related.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, environmental science or related field
5 years of relevant environmental compliance experience and knowledge in a manufacturing environment
Demonstrated experience applying environmental regulations (ex. RCRA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act) and working with environmental regulatory agencies (ex. EPA, LDEQ)
No Immigration Sponsorship Available for this role.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing LPDES wastewater permits, stormwater permits and large quantity generator (LQG) sites
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to deal with various levels of employees, management, vendors, and customers
Strong organizational skills, with an ability to be flexible in a dynamic work environment
Good working knowledge of SAP

Responsibilities

Ensures that Garyville plant procedures and programs comply with LDEQ and EPA environmental regulations.
Manages the following tasks that are required for regulatory compliance by local, state, or federal agencies: Annual Air Emissions Inventory and Annual Air Compliance report
Assist the plant with monitoring, sampling, waste shipment tracking and testing programs as needed and to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements and environmental permit limitations.
Create annual and monthly reports such as Tier II, Annual Waste Summary, Toxic Release Inventory and Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs)
Coordinate regulatory inspections and regulatory reporting with agencies
Interpret regulations and identify sound solutions across air, waste and water medias
Support the Garyville Plant as the environmental expert during third party audits, such as: ECAP, RC14001, LDEQ, and EPA.
Lead environmental improvement and waste reduction projects to help meet company sustainability goals.
Serves as an environmental resource to field and operations personnel, process engineers, pre-startup safety reviews (PSSRs) and Incident investigations.
Supports the guiding principles of Responsible Care to continually improve Garyville’s plant’s safety, health, environmental performance, process safety, security, and efforts to respond to public concerns relating to design, development, manufacture, storage, marketing, distribution, use and ultimate safe disposal of chemical products.
Supports and is committed to the Quality Improvement Process.
Plans strategies to ensure error-free work by “doing it right the first time” and conveys this attitude in the daily performance of various duties.
Supports and incorporates the activities of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) into ongoing work duties through teamwork within and across departments.
Supports new product introduction to facility assuring acceptable controls are in place.