Environmental Engineer

About the role

INVISTA is looking to have an Environmental Engineer join our Longview, Texas Polypropylene site. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the facility's compliance with environmental regulations and standards. Join INVISTA's Longview Polypropylene team and help create solutions that improve everyday life while advancing environmental excellence. As part of INVISTA, a Koch company, the Longview site manufactures differentiated polypropylene products used in medical and healthcare applications, food and specialty packaging, consumer products, durable goods, and more. Leveraging the versatility of polypropylene, INVISTA has developed more than 120 polymer grades tailored to meet diverse customer needs and evolving market demands. At Longview, Environmental Engineers play a critical role in ensuring responsible operations, advancing compliance and environmental performance, and driving innovative solutions that create long-term value. Guided by Koch's Stewardship Principle, we are committed to leaving things better than we found them by protecting people, communities, and the environment while enabling the production of materials that make modern life possible. This is an opportunity to apply your technical expertise, influence meaningful outcomes, and partner with a collaborative team dedicated to continuous improvement, operational excellence, and responsible resource stewardship. You will be part of a dedicated Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) team that includes an EHS Manager, Safety Specialist, Environmental Engineer, and EHS/LDAR Coordinator. The team collaborates closely with corporate EHS professionals and other departments to ensure a safe and compliant working environment. The EHS team at INVISTA Longview is committed to continuous improvement and cross-site learning to enhance environmental performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple compliance programs.
• Develop tools and templates while ensuring consistency in program compliance management.
• Supporting reasonable inquiry, reporting, and compliance management processes through validating data, building, and running data queries and reports, managing environmental share drives, SharePoint sites, etc.
• Driving continuous improvement through integration with site-wide processes, “right-sizing” tools, eliminating data management redundancy, and ensuring controls are in place for critical environmental data, and improving environmental information management and reporting activities.
• Ensure program requirements are understood and sustainable through the development of rigorous, robust, and integrated compliance systems.
• Perform periodic self-assessments and participate in audits to verify compliance and system effectiveness
• Perform required inspections and field reviews for maintaining compliance with permits and regulations.
• Ensure that all deadlines are met for the site Compliance Plan and Periodic Reports.
• Manage hazardous waste compliance, including manifest accuracy, RCRAInfo generator-status maintenance, and coordination of waste removal within regulatory deadlines.
• Administer the site’s Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) program, including required inspections and follow-up actions.
• Prepare and coordinate SARA/EPCRA reporting requirements.
• Support chemical inventory management and approval reviews.
• Support technical response and correspondence for regulatory bodies.
• Represent EHS in cross-functional and corporate meetings and working groups

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in an Environmental role
• Engineering or a Bachelor of Science degree within a science field (chemistry, environmental science, biology, etc.)
• Previous experience in an industrial/manufacturing setting
• Previous experience in environmental air programs (ex. Title V)
• This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship