Environmental Engineer

About the role

The Rome Mill is a complex, fully integrated pulp and paper manufacturing facility with two paper machines. The mill includes multiple process lines of wood handling, pulping, power and recovery, and effluent treatment. The scope of the position includes implementing, coordinating, maintaining, monitoring, and improving the progress of environmental programs across the mill.

Responsibilities

• Provide regulatory guidance to mill operations, maintenance, and management on a day-to-day, or as needed basis.
• Ensure that the mill is aligned with corporate initiatives and priorities, assuring compliance with IP expectations.
• Drive continuous and deliberate improvements including systems development to ensure environmental compliance and prevent problems.
• Ensure completion of required compliance reports for wastewater, solid waste, and chemical management (i.e. NetDMR, Water Withdrawal, Tier II, Hazardous Waste, etc.).
• Support operating teams navigating regulatory concerns, provide necessary compliance training to salaried and hourly teams.
• Implement systems and processes to improve/sustain results for mill EMS systems.
• Serve as liaison between the organization and regulatory agencies concerned with environmental control.
• Participate in environmental compliance audits and assist the site in closing the gaps identified.
• Chemical approvals for environmental.
• Attend operational departmental meetings.
• Prepare, review, update and submit environmental inspections and reports.
• Participate as a member of HSE department; maintain strong relationships with other business unit personnel as well as operating and maintenance department leaders.
• Work with mill engineering and operations to evaluate capital projects for potential permitting needs as well as projects for the wastewater and solid waste processes.
• Act as IP representative for contractors providing services within HSE department, complete IPCC training.
• Provide environmental outage coordination, both for routine and annual outages.
• Act as visible and active leader in delivering excellent safety results.
• Complete safety work observations to ensure internal and external resources are complying with safe work practices, HSE work plans.
• Develop Corrective Actions Plans to address systematic gaps.
• Participate and lead in the development of Environmental Management System procedures, Key Element Surveys (KES) programs.
• Actively use and improve upon existing systems for managing daily activities, including development of standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Initiate and facilitate problem solving through trouble-cause-correction processes (TCC).
• Understand and promote Manufacturing Excellence (ME) tools and processes; participate and lead ME improvement initiatives in the department.
• Support 5S and housekeeping programs for the area and drive improvement projects, audit systems, and excellent results (i.e. Hazardous/Universal waste buildings, Day Lab, etc.).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental sciences, or related field required.
• Two plus years of environmental compliance/management experience in a manufacturing environment (pulp and paper industry preferred).
• Water/wastewater Laboratory supervision experience preferred.
• Experience in practical application of Federal environmental regulations.
• Knowledge of State of Georgia regulations will also be beneficial.
• Experience using a computer, skilled in word processing, spreadsheet programs (Microsoft Excel), database systems, and SAP business systems.
• Plant application, PI ProcessBook, ParcView experience preferred.

Skills

• Wastewater Laboratory Analysts Certification.
• DOT, RCRA, hazmat training certification.
• EPA Smoke School.

Benefits

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

• Health, welfare and retirement plans including Medical, Dental, Life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short-term and Long-term Disability, 401(k), Company-funded retirement contributions, Paid Time Off, Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement), Student Loan Repayment Assistance, and Voluntary Benefits including insurance for home, auto, vision and pets.
• Leadership training, promotional opportunities.

About Us

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Career

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The Company

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