Sr. GENCO Environmental Specialist

About the role

Join Alliant Energy as a Sr. Environmental Specialist and lead critical environmental compliance and strategy for power generation operations. Leveraging your expertise in air permitting, EPA and DNR reporting, and regulatory interpretation, you'll ensure full compliance across a federally regulated coal plant.

Responsibilities

• Identifies and develops environmental plans and programs to meet applicable corporate policies, business goals, and regulatory compliance.
• Assists in the development of communication tools for environmental initiatives and risk impacts.
• Leads, coordinates, provides, and/or conducts environmental training and education.
• Provides technical support for environmental management system program modifications and the implementation of improvements to the system.
• Researches state-of-the-art developments in environmental controls and recommends improvements and strategies.
• Evaluates and develops comments on proposed state and federal laws and regulations.
• Coordinates with local authorities to review and assess emergency response procedures and capabilities.
• Anticipates and addresses evolving and emerging environmental issues.
• Coordinates with departments and business units to identify on-going and future environmental needs and to develop and implement comprehensive strategies to meet these needs.
• Works in conjunction with internal customers on complex environmental and research projects and analyzes improvements to workflow, policies, and practices.
• Performs in-depth analysis and interpretation of environmental performance measures.
• Captures and maintains environmental filing systems and all relevant records in compliance with permitting, monitoring, and record keeping requirements of environmental rules and regulations.
• Affirms facility compliance with environmental rules and regulations, ensuring existing policies, practices, procedures, and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) plans are being followed.
• Participates in various environmental inspections and compliance audits.
• Investigates environmental incidents and assists in implementation of improvement plans.
• Conducts onsite investigations and provides analysis on outcome of investigations.
• Engages in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy’s Values and help deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree Emphasis in civil, environmental or chemical engineering, environmental studies or physical or natural sciences, or related area.
• Preferred 5 years of experience in engineering, science, compliance planning work or environmental resource management with an electric utility, consulting firm or government agency.

Qualifications

• Must possess a valid driver’s license.
• Working knowledge of electric, gas or steam operating practices, construction standards, work methods, equipment, maintenance practices, regulatory compliance, and materials preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with government agencies, utility groups, and other industries.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage project teams with cross-functional team member knowledge and experience preferred.
• Solid knowledge and interpretation of environmental rules and applicable Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations as they apply to the utility industry.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret government regulations.
• Solid analytical skills and ability to perform successful analysis on performance measures and develop reports, charts and graphs.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use computer software programs (e.g., e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and project management) preferred.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and inclusive work environment.