Sr. Environmental Engineer

Richmond, VA
Health, Safety & Environment

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S.-based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect. More information on AdvanSix can be found at https://www.advansix.com.

Position Summary:

  • The Sr. Environmental Engineer is responsible for the development, administration, and implementation of environmental programs in accordance with governmental requirements.


Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Manage implementation of requirements associated with a government environmental compliance program at the assigned site
  • Interface with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies on issues relating to compliance
  • Act in a leading role in the development of environmental management systems to facilitate an increase in understanding and accountability
  • Manage environmental consultant resources for project work, including stack and continuous emissions reporting and verification
  • Submit reports to regulatory agencies
  • Review and approve environmental air emissions components of site proposed changes and appropriations requests, in partnership with the site’s environmental specialist(s)
  • Work closely with site leaders to ensure compliance with program requirements
  • Work with site and regional environmental specialists, as well as operations, maintenance, and engineering leaders at the site, to ensure environmental requirements are integrated with plant level standard work
  • Manage the EPA Consent decree, environmental air NSR, and Title V permits and improve the enhanced Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) programs


Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in chemical or environmental engineering, chemistry, or equivalent field
  • 5+ years of experience in environmental/environmental regulations


Additional Qualifications:

  • Experience working with governmental regulatory agencies
  • Experience in chemical manufacturing environment
  • Experience working with unions desirable
  • Must have an uncompromising drive for compliance and willingness to escalate issues as needed
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and teamwork skills
  • Ability to interface with and influence all levels of plant personnel
  • Six Sigma certification preferred
  • Demonstrated leadership skills
  • Strong auditing abilities
  • Must be highly motivated, energetic, and a self-directed individual with good analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with manage multiple priorities
  • Must be proficient in Microsoft Office

Don’t meet every single requirement? At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
 

AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.
 

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

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  • Your profile and resume will be reviewed by a recruiter and you’ll be notified via email whether you will be proceeding with the interview process
  • The first interview will be a telephone screening with the HR and recruiting team, If there is mutual interest, there will be additional interviews with the team and an in-person site visit
  • Once interviews are completed, if you are determined a good fit for the AdvanSix team, a formal offer will be extended. Offers will first be verbally given and quickly followed by a formal letter via email
  • Every offer is contingent on the successful completion of the pre-employment and background checks required for the position.
  • We can’t wait for you to join the team!