Environmental Specialist

Accountabilities:

• Provide environmental technical expertise and compliance support to manufacturing sites across the assigned region.
• Evaluate compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental regulations, permits, internal standards, and other environmental requirements.
• Lead or support environmental legal compliance audits, risk assessments, and compliance reviews, including the development and verification of corrective actions.
• Provide technical guidance on air permitting and emissions compliance, including permit applicability, emissions inventories, permit applications and modifications, calculations, monitoring, recordkeeping, and regulatory reporting.
• Periodically verify that environmental permits, registrations, and authorizations accurately reflect site equipment, processes, materials, production volumes, emission sources, discharges, and operating conditions.
• Provide technical oversight for hazardous and non-hazardous waste programs, including waste characterization, generator status, storage, labeling, transportation, disposal, manifests, vendors, and regulatory documentation.
• Support wastewater and stormwater compliance programs, including permitting, sampling, monitoring, analytical-data review, discharge limitations, treatment-system performance, inspections, reporting, and unauthorized discharge investigations.
• Support programs related to spill prevention and response, chemical management, storage tanks, environmental releases, and environmental emergency response.
• Investigate and manage environmental incidents, releases, permit deviations, exceedances, Notices of Violation, and other significant environmental events, including root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions.
• Review and validate environmental compliance data used for permit tracking, emissions calculations, regulatory reporting, waste reporting, wastewater reporting, and other environmental submissions.
• Monitor corrective actions and help sites prioritize closure according to regulatory and environmental risk, escalating overdue or high-risk items when appropriate.
• Analyze audit findings, incidents, regulatory events, and compliance trends to identify recurring or systemic risks and develop scalable solutions, tools, standards, and best practices.
• Develop and maintain standardized compliance tools, procedures, permit matrices, compliance calendars, checklists, and technical guidance to improve regional consistency.
• Coordinate and provide technical oversight for environmental consultants, laboratories, waste vendors, and other environmental service providers.
• Monitor emerging environmental regulations and evaluate their potential impact on regional manufacturing operations.
• Promote the sharing of environmental compliance best practices, regulatory lessons learned, and significant environmental events across sites to prevent recurrence and support continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, or a related technical discipline, with at least 8 years of progressive environmental compliance experience, preferably within manufacturing or industrial operations.
• A master’s degree or higher, or local equivalent, may be preferred for this level.
• Demonstrated technical expertise across multiple environmental regulatory programs, including air permitting and emissions, hazardous waste, wastewater and stormwater, chemical management, spill prevention, and environmental reporting.
• Strong ability to interpret environmental regulations and permit conditions, determine regulatory applicability, identify compliance gaps, and develop practical risk-based solutions.
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems and environmental compliance management or data systems is preferred.
• Professional certifications such as CHMM, PE, QEP, REM, or equivalent are preferred but not required.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and provide technical guidance across multiple organizational levels and functions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with EHS, Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Legal, leadership, and external environmental service providers.
• Willingness and ability to travel to manufacturing sites within the assigned region as required.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary of $121,600–$182,400, commensurate with experience and subject to adjustment based on physical location.
• Potential additional incentive compensation as part of the overall compensation package.
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off.
• Additional voluntary benefits.
• Opportunity to influence environmental compliance and sustainability practices across multiple manufacturing operations.
• Exposure to diverse environmental programs, regulatory requirements, and industrial operations.
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional and technical stakeholders.