Environmental Engineer

About the role

The Environmental Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring environmental compliance and supporting the manufacturing processes at Dauch's Gallatin plant in Gallatin, TN.

Responsibilities

• Maintain adherence to safety, environmental, quality and sustainability standards and enforce policies and regulations.
• Provide environmental engineering and technical support to ensure environmental compliance.
• Lead the environmental efforts for the Gallatin TN facility.
• Identify and resolve environmental issues that may arise.
• Communicate with environmental agency personnel regarding construction and operating permit issues.
• Support the negotiation of potential compliance issues and enforcement actions.
• Obtain and maintain current knowledge of all environmental regulations and compliance reporting.
• Develop and implement training programs to ensure regulatory compliance with government agencies, ISO14001, and company requirements.
• Focus on incident prevention and safety through best practices.
• Develop, monitor, and assess plant environmental metrics.
• Maintain hazardous waste program by annually taking a hazardous waste management training through a third party service.
• Train employees dealing with hazardous waste and submit annual training for all other indirect personnel.
• Handle the coordination of hazardous waste disposal and manage cleanup efforts of spills, maintaining all required legal documents.
• Review and maintain all environmental permits, files, and documents.
• Request quotes, seek purchase approval, and lead plant projects related to required environmental equipment and training activities.
• Aid Plant Management in maintaining a positive relationship with the local community regarding environmental compliance.
• Ensure emergency response plans are implemented and aligned with local regulatory, regional, divisional, and corporate requirements.
• Serve as the company representative during any agency inspections of facilities and primary contact for environmental consultants and vendors.
• Train full-time employees, contractors, and agency employees.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering or related Engineering field.
• 3-5 years environmental responsibilities, preferably in an industrial setting.
• Knowledge and experience with environmental permitting and recordkeeping.
• Knowledge of ISO14001; OSHA, EPA, DOT, and related environmental regulations.