Principal Environmental Engineer

Role Description

The Principal Environmental Engineer is responsible for assisting the Green River plant with all environmental regulatory compliance.  The Environmental Engineer is responsible for helping obtain required permits and maintaining compliance with permits: including air, water, land, hazardous materials, and waste.  The Environmental Engineer helps provide options to solve environmental compliance issues and promote sound environmental policy. This requires having a good understanding and practical experience dealing with a large host of regulatory agencies and their numerous regulations.  

Duties and Responsibilities

• Obtain required air quality permits, renewals, and modifications for major Title V sources. Responsible for all monitoring, record keeping and reporting to regulatory agencies to maintain compliance with construction and operating permits. Initiate and assist in plant wide testing of operations, process variables, and new raw materials as needed. Supervise testing by directing supervisors, operators, and technicians as required. 
• Assist and provide guidance on all other required permitting, monitoring, and reporting for other environmental regulatory and agency requirements, including: 
•  Land Quality, Water Quality, Solid & Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Substance, SPCC, SWPPP, BLM, SEO, USFWS, WGFD, PCB & MSDS. 
• Review and comment on proposed new regulatory requirements to various agencies to promote sound environmental policy with the greatest flexibility.  Provide recommendations to management for economically efficient and environmentally sound compliance alternatives to compliance issues. 
• Spend time interfacing with various departments regarding permit requirements.  Explain the criteria of dust control requirements, including the dust control action plan to reduce fugitive emissions at the site. 
• Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes while focusing on safety and best practices.  
• Performs tasks in accordance with the quality and environmental management systems established according to the ISO 9001:2015 and ISO14001 2015 standards. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned. 

Minimum Skills and Abilities

Required Skills/Abilities:  

• Demonstrated experience understanding permit requirements and working with plant personnel on being successful.         
• Demonstrated ability to work with agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. 
• Outstanding communication, coaching, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with people at all levels of the organization. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental or biological sciences. 
• 5 to 7 years’ experience in industrial and/or mining environmental permitting and compliance. 
• Experience in industrial and/or mining environmental permitting and compliance required.  

Physical Requirements:  

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. 
• Prolonged periods in a noisy environment.  
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at a time.  
• Ability to walk or stand on uneven surfaces.  
• Able to meet physical demands of the position.