Pendleton Environmental Professional I

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Job Title: Environmental Engineer

Job Summary: This position is located at the Milliken Pendleton Plant located in Pendleton, SC and reports to the location’s Engineering Services Manager. The Environmental Engineer is responsible for the overall coordination, implementation, and execution of environmental affairs for the plant. These responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the areas of wastewater treatment, air emissions, solid waste, hazardous waste, operator certification, asbestos management, spill response, auditing, SARA, stormwater, PCB management, environmental file maintenance, and training. The Environmental Engineer is responsible for being knowledgeable of the regulations applicable to the location and for staying abreast of state of the art treatment and abatement technologies. The Environmental Engineer is responsible for leading programs for the minimization and elimination of waste streams to all media (land, air, and water). The Environmental Engineer is responsible for ensuring that all associates, visitors, contractors, and truck drivers receive the proper training as it pertains to their job functions.

Key Responsibilities:

Wastewater Treatment

- Monitor daily wastewater treatment operations to ensure compliance with all permit requirements.

- Ensure that written procedures are in place for proper sampling, including measurement for parameters, where certified, and correct and timely shipment of samples to certified labs.

- Ensure complete knowledge of all permits and permit regulations.

- Maintain all permit compliance data and prepare the required reports for submission to regulatory agencies.

- Work with the Corporate Environmental Engineer to prepare permit renewal applications and construction applications when necessary.

- Monitor compliance data and bring any adverse trend or permit excursion to the immediate attention of location management. Recommend corrective action.

- Ensure that the plant has the proper number of certified operators of the level required by each permit and that measures are taken to remain certified.

Air Emissions

- Work with the Corporate Environmental Engineer and with plant associates to ensure that construction permits are obtained prior to installation or modification of processes that affect air emissions.

- Be knowledgeable of all air permit requirements and ensure that procedures are in place to collect the data necessary to demonstrate permit compliance.

- Ensure that any emission tests required by the permit are performed and reported as required by the permit.

- Perform air emission calculations to prepare reports as required by regulatory agencies.

- Monitor the performance of air emission sources and bring any adverse trend or permit excursion to the immediate attention of location management. Recommend corrective actions.

- Ensure that all calculations and submissions concerning emissions-based fees are correct and all fees paid.

- Ensure air monitoring training is completed as required by the Title V permit and by corporate procedures.

Waste

- Maintain period data on solid waste and input into Enablon at the end of each month.

- Ensure that procedures are in place for the proper characterization, handling and disposal of hazardous waste, non-hazardous chemical waste and used oil. Maintain the disposal manifest records in the environmental files.

- Ensure that procedures are in place for, and that all associates are trained in, the proper disposal of solid waste.

- Ensure facility has trained personnel to perform audits of waste accumulation areas and maintain accumulation log.

Miscellaneous

- Maintain facility’s ISO 14001 certification and be knowledgeable of its requirements. Lead external and internal audits as necessary.

- Ensure all reports required by SARA Title III are submitted on or ahead of deadline and kept in the Environmental files.

- Manage spill response procedures and training for the facility.

- Maintain stormwater pollution prevention plan compliance with sampling and training as necessary.

- Participate in the location safety process & sponsor Environmental and Emergency Procedures Subcommittee.

- Report environmental incidents or concerns immediately to the Engineering Services Manager and Plant Manager.

- Ensure items on the environmental calendar are completed in a timely manner.

- Manage direct reports and provide development opportunities.

Qualifications - Required:

- Four-Year Bachelor’s Degree with relevant work experience (Environmental Science or related study)

- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint

- Ability to demonstrate initiative and ownership with little supervision

- Strong problem-solving capability

- Ability to communicate and interact at all levels

Qualifications – Preferred:

- Leadership Experience

- Project Management Exposure

- Previous Manufacturing Experience

- Biological WWT License

- Technical Aptitude

- Collaborative Project Experience

Milliken is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, including but not limited to lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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