Environmental Engineer - Air Specialist

Opportunity to become the Plant Air Environmental Specialist with a global chemical leader in Eastern NC. Accountable for air quality environmental performance at the chemical / material handling plant operations. Ensuring 100% compliance with all federal, state, and local air quality environmental regulations. Responsibility for obtaining all air quality environmental permit renewals and modifications necessary for facility operations, optimizations, and expansions.
Responsibilities:- Maintain compliance with all air quality regulatory programs, permits, and approvals.- Ensure all air quality program policies and procedures are consistent with all appropriate state and federal environmental regulations.- Develop and maintain working relationships and interface with air program regulatory personnel with the North Carolina Department of Environment (DEQ) – Division of Air Quality (DAQ) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).- Stay current with state and federal air regulations to evaluate any proposed regulatory changes in respect to their impact on the site.- Prepare applications for new permits, modifications or renewals. Must coordinate with operations and maintenance personnel to meet production schedules and plant outages.- Oversee all air quality monitoring systems and coordinate audits and reporting requirements.- Oversee performance air testing programs, and review and approve testing reports.- Facilitate air dispersion modeling requirements, including modeling provided in-house or through third-party consultants.- Supervise consultants performing air related permitting activities. Monitor costs and schedules to insure approved budgets are achieved.- Support the development and implementation of the comprehensive and integrated set of strategies and policies supporting the company’s environmentally responsible practices and reputation.- Establish and maintain the means to detect company vulnerability with respect to air quality issues.- Provide cost effect strategies to comply with increasingly stringent air quality environmental laws, regulations, and permit requirements.- Recommend budget appropriations and acquire all necessary resources to achieve environmental air quality program success.- Identify air quality program opportunities to optimize productivity and efficiencies within the facility’s operating and maintenance areas.
Qualifications:- BS in Chemical or Environmental Engineering with 6 + years of Environmental experience in a chemical process or related plant working with local and state regulatory agencies.- Understanding of the chemical processes and production as well as PSM compliance and air emissions stack testing.- Knowledge of air quality environmental laws, rules, and policies.