Environmental Manager

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The purpose of this position is to manage the Environmental Department (Air Quality, Outside Sanitation, WESP and Water Quality) to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local air quality, water quality, and hazardous waste regulations.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitors and evaluates all environmental, health, safety, and housekeeping programs for compliance.
• Enforces compliance with regulatory agency requirements.
• Inspects and manage environmental department equipment and personnel to detect existing or potential environmental, safety, and health hazards.
• Knowledgeable of all regulatory compliance permits with respect to AQMD, DTSC and LASD and other regulatory agencies with facility oversight.
• Advises management of regulatory issues and makes recommendations for compliance.
• Manage, train, develop and mentor environmental department personnel.
• Responsible for budget planning and reporting for the environmental department.
• Manage projects related to environmental department equipment and process controls.
• Monitor and maintain all CEMS equipment to ensure its always in working conditions.
• Responsible for creating, updating, and auditing internal controls programs procedures.
• Organize and conduct regulatory compliance testing/monitoring programs per regulatory requirements.
• Manage required regulatory reporting in coordination with corporate EH&S Compliance Managers.
• Responsible for performing incident investigation for all plant environmental incidents and environmental department health and safety incidents.
• Responsible for maintaining operational equipment within the environmental department.
• Responsible for developing, updating, and implementing environmental department standard operating procedures, job safety analysis and standard work instructions.
• Implement continuous improvement incentives using Lean tools and methods.
• Other duties as assigned.
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PRE-HIRE REQUIREMENTS:

• BS degree in chemical or environmental engineering or equivalent experience
• 5 years’ experience in environmental field
• Knowledge of air quality, water quality, and hazardous waste regulations
• Project Management experience
• Supervisory/managerial experience
• Good communication and computer skills

POST-HIRE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

• Environmental training applicable to the job
• Safety training for applicable equipment
• Job instructional training
• Quality system familiarization
• EMS ISO 14001 awareness. Plant EMS objectives and targets
• Significant environmental air aspects and impacts

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Must be able to wear required Personal Protective Equipment.

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