Senior Environmental Engineer - Air Lead

Location: La Porte, TX - (Hybrid)

About the role

The Senior Environmental Engineer leads the Air Compliance efforts for the Battleground Manufacturing Complex (BMC) site, requiring a strong background in air compliance and experience interacting with permitting authorities. This position is responsible for air regulatory compliance activities, including New Source Review (NSR), Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), Permits by Rule (PBR), Standard Permits, and Title V (TV) permits. The role involves collaboration with BMC Operations, Laboratory, Maintenance, Safety, and Management personnel and serves as the primary O&P representative for air compliance interactions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and other environmental agencies.

Responsibilities

• Champion and apply the INEOS 20 Principles to all safety, health, and environmental (SHE) goals and work processes.
• Collaborate with other SHE professionals to develop and maintain the site SHE management system (SMS) to ensure environmental compliance, reporting, and record-keeping.
• Ensure compliance with existing environmental permits, including data collection and analysis, auditing, annual reporting, and troubleshooting for improvements.
• Monitor developing regulations to identify those affecting the site and take action to ensure compliance.
• Identify and pursue process improvement tactics and tools to drive performance and continuous improvement.
• Provide primary technical expertise for SHE systems and programs.
• Establish environmental performance expectations, requirements, and plans to improve, including supporting the development of a multi-year departmental improvement plan.
• Participate in developing and updating Environmental elements of the business SHE Management System (SMS).
• Serve as cost center custodian, responsible for departmental spending and identifying cost improvement initiatives.
• Establish key environmental performance indicators and targets for BMC and report end-of-month statistics.
• Engage all levels of the workforce in desired behaviors and activities to achieve performance results.
• Monitor environmental performance data and trends, audit for compliance, and suggest tactics to improve performance.
• Develop and implement environmental strategies that balance regulatory compliance and business needs.
• Support O&P Environmental Manager on ESG reporting efforts for the BMC site, as needed.
• Foster environmental awareness among employees and contractors.
• Liaise, cultivate, and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and community industrial associations.
• Act as a technical authority for BMC environmental air compliance programs, including communication with Site Leadership Team and Corporate SHE & Compliance Team.
• Maintain and build a strong technical background on site environmental permits.
• Provide technical guidance on compliance issues related to CEMS, PEMS, HRVOC, MON, RICE MACT, LDAR, MSS, MECT, 30 TAC 101, 111, 115, 116, 117, semi-annual deviation reports, and annual reports.
• Maintain air emissions spreadsheets and databases, including the ENVision database.
• Provide technical support for site permitting, monitoring, compliance, and reporting efforts.
• Submit Air Emission Event reports for Reportable Quantity (RQ) exceedances to state (TCEQ) and federal (NRC) agencies.
• Maintain records for non-reportable (recordable) emission events.
• Track and manage agreed orders, supporting implementation of corrective actions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or a technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10+ years of plant experience in regulatory compliance and environmental permitting.
• Advanced degree(s) may be considered for relevant experience.
• Multi-media environmental experience, with an extensive background in air permitting applications.
• Proven performance in regulatory program implementation.
• Ability to interpret SHE regulations and understand their applicability to site operations.
• 5-7 years of experience managing air programs in a petrochemical or refinery facility.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to directly and indirectly lead/influence diverse groups of people successfully.
• Strong technical written and oral communication skills for interacting with regulatory agencies, community, plant operations personnel, and leadership.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• General knowledge of chemical reaction, polymerization, and distillation process design to demonstrate routine emissions for permit applications and upset conditions.
• Strong initiative to solve problems and make timely, effective decisions.
• Proficient use of computer applications and databases to implement or improve environmental programs.
• Defines personal success in terms of the whole team.

Pay

Offer Range: $142,857 - $170,000 (commensurate with experience).