Environmental Engineer Fulltime

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Have the Opportunity to chart your own course, challenge yourself, and acquire new capabilities to build a rewarding and fulfilling career. We reward employees with competitive pay and incentives to recognize skills, competencies, and contributions to business results.

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The DuPont Yerkes manufacturing site is seeking a motivated professional Environmental Engineer for its multi-business facility located in Buffalo, NY,

The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for satisfying the Site’s environmental compliance obligations and identifying & driving continuous improvement. In addition, the Environmental Engineer is responsible for providing active leadership and program development and implementation for environmental systems at the Yerkes site.

Your Key Responsibilities:
• Serve as the technical expert on all matters relating to the site’s air pollution control, ISO 14001 infrastructure, RMP, associated regulatory compliance programs, and emissions.
• Prepare Title V air permit applications including renewals and modifications.
• Develop air dispersion modeling using regulator-approved modeling programs.
• Verify accuracy of emission calculations and estimates for routine emissions as well as maintenance, startup, and shutdown emissions.
• Serve as the program manager for site LDAR program, including all aspects of monitoring, maintaining, and reporting on all aspects of the program.
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of all required reporting to state and federal agencies.
• Develop and provide technical guidance and best practices to various departments regarding their responsibilities to the air compliance program.
• Interpret local, state, and federal air regulations then develop and implement air compliance programs, inspections, and guidance documents to ensure site compliance.
• Maintain a strong, broad, current working knowledge of appropriate federal (EPA) and New York (DEC) regulations and corporate EHS standards.
• Maintain NYSDEC CBS / PBS program requirements, permits, and audits.
• Serve as a RCRA waste coordinator, maintain 90-day storage area, profile wastes, and ensure compliance with requirements.
• Maintain SPDES and SPCC programs, sampling, and reporting.
• Participate in company and local Environmental networks.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations during the design and installation phase of facilities to ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
• Build effective relationships with regulatory bodies, laboratories, and service providers for regulatory compliance program.
• Works with W&P/M&M environmental resources to implement and maintain policies and procedures to comply with health and environmental laws, regulations, and standards.
• Host regulatory site visits and inspections.
• Drive incident investigations to identify root cause and corrective/preventive actions.
• Conduct internal 1st Party Audits and Field Environmental, ISO 14001, and RMP Assessments to ensure compliance with DuPont Standards and Federal, State and Local regulations.
• Direct and participate in second, and third-Party Environmental audits, as necessary.
• Develop and deliver professional meeting presentations to stakeholders including regulators and other officials.
• Be a visual presence on the production floor and provide counsel, advice, and support to other functions on all environmental related matters.
• Assess, analyze, and collate environmental performance data and reporting information to internal staff, regulatory bodies and other third parties (e.g., Responsible Care, ISO14001).
• Assess current and emerging environmental laws, programs, and directives relevant to operations and performance measures.
• Supports the management of change (MOC) process as a change owner, subject matter specialist (Environmental) and change action owner.
• Conduct facility training sessions as it relates to Air, ISO and RMP regulations to ensure compliance and enhanced awareness.
• Support Environmental EMS & RCMS Programs as needed.

Qualification Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Engineering, Chemistry, or a related technical degree from an accredited program.
• Minimum 5 years applicable experience showing proficiency in air pollution permitting and compliance and/or multimedia environmental compliance audits, and environmental management systems, (preferred experience working in the state of New York).
• Completion of a master’s degree in a related field may be substituted for 2 years of experience.
• Superior technical writing abilities.
• Expert knowledge of Federal, State, and Local air regulations with emphasis on the Clean Air Act, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, Title V Permitting, Title VI Ozone Depleting Substances.
• Experience in air quality dispersion models and project management.
• Demonstrated initiative-taker who can work independently with minimal day-to-day supervision.
• Flexibility and the ability to manage a wide variety of assignments with continually changing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate, network and work cross-functionally with Operations, Technology, Maintenance, Training organizations as well as with corporate and external functions.
• Ability to clearly and effectively present complex information to all levels of employees, management, and regulators.
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 and EPA RMP requirements a plus
• Proficiency in the use of computer software (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.

The Pay range for this role is $79,100.00 – $124,300.00 Annual

How Base Pay is Determined: DuPont has job leveling frameworks that help organize roles based on progressive levels of responsibility, proficiency and qualifications. Each role has an associated pay range (or an established pay rate for some roles) based on the competitive market in each country where we operate. Each individual’s pay is based on a variety of factors, including their role and the associated pay range for that role, their geographic location (i.e., country, state, metropolitan area), as well as their skills, experience, education and certifications, and performance.

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