Environmental Compliance Specialist

Who we are

For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing our customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes.


Our Vision

Reworld is leading the charge to a carbon-negative future through revolutionary sustainable materials management solutions that reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine waste for the benefit of society and the environment.

Our Business

Reworld partners with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and innovative solutions, to help customers reduce, reuse, recycle and recover value from waste streams and meet or exceed their sustainability goals.

Our Value

Reworld's differentiator comes from our ecosystem of technology, facilities and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.

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About the role

Seeking a hands-on Environmental Compliance Specialist which is a field-based, operating-facility role for someone who has already supported environmental compliance in heavy industry, energy, power generation, solid waste, or comparable plant operations.

This role offers visible, meaningful work across a complex waste-to-energy facility and a network of transfer stations, landfills, and material-processing facilities. Working alongside the Senior Environmental Compliance Specialist, you will help maintain compliant air, CEMS, water, ash, solid-waste, and hazardous-waste programs while building depth in a practical, high-accountability operating environment.

The Environmental Compliance Specialist supports the Thermomechanical Treatment Facility and satellite sites across Central and Eastern Massachusetts. The role reports to the Senior Environmental Compliance Specialist and partners closely with the Regional Landfill Manager, Regional Environmental Director, plant operations, maintenance teams, consultants, laboratories, and regulatory agencies. Approximately half of the work supports the thermomechanical treatment facility and half supports transfer stations, landfills, and material-processing facilities. This is not a laboratory, academic, research, or audit-only role. This work requires routine site presence and direct involvement in facility environmental compliance. Please Note - Relocation support may be available for a candidate who otherwise meets the required operating-facility experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Support environmental compliance programs for air emissions, CEMS, ash, solid waste, stormwater, wastewater, potable water, and hazardous waste.
• Participate directly in facility permit applications, renewals, modifications, and supporting documentation for construction, operation, and expansion.
• Complete and review environmental testing, monitoring, data, records, and regulatory reports; ensure submittals are accurate, complete, timely, and retained to Reworld and regulatory standards.
• Conduct environmental walkdowns at SEMASS and satellite facilities; document findings, coordinate corrective actions with operations and maintenance, and follow actions through closure.
• Support air-emissions and CEMS activities, including review of emissions records, testing results, equipment logs, and related reports.
• Coordinate environmental testing and compliance work with consultants, engineers, contractors, and testing laboratories.
• Analyze environmental and operational data to identify compliance risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Support regulatory-inspection readiness and communicate technical compliance matters clearly to operating teams and external stakeholders.
• Monitor federal and state regulatory changes and help update permits, test plans, procedures, and compliance strategies.
• Support Reworld growth initiatives and community outreach for mercury and mercury-containing-product diversion.

Required Background

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, engineering technology, chemistry, biology, or a related scientific discipline. Relevant power-plant, industrial-operations, or military experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• At least three years of direct, on-site environmental compliance experience in a heavy-industrial, energy, power-generation, waste-to-energy, landfill, transfer-station, recycling, material-processing, or comparable operating facility.
• Direct participation in environmental permits, permit renewals or modifications, regulatory reports or submissions, facility inspections, and corrective-action follow-up.
• Direct experience with environmental testing, monitoring, data review, documentation, or reporting across multiple programs, such as air, water, solid waste, ash, stormwater, wastewater, potable water, or hazardous waste.
• Familiarity with facility operations and with the practical demands of maintaining compliance in active industrial conditions.
• Experience working with operations, maintenance, contractors, consultants, laboratories, or regulatory agencies.
• Ability to use environmental or operational data-management tools and prepare clear technical records, reports, and presentations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to meet testing and reporting deadlines across multiple programs and agencies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Note that qualified candidates can point to an operating facility where they personally supported permits or regulatory reports, completed environmental inspections or monitoring, and followed compliance findings through closure.

Preferred Background

• Thermomechanical treatment, power-generation, boiler, combustion, air-pollution-control, stack-testing, or CEMS experience.
• Experience at transfer stations, landfills, material-processing facilities, recycling facilities, or other solid-waste operations.
• Massachusetts environmental compliance or MassDEP experience.
• Hazardous-waste experience, including RCRA, DOT, and related documentation.
• Experience coordinating outside testing laboratories, consultants, contractors, or engineers.
• Microsoft Copilot experience.
• Massachusetts Professional Engineer or Drinking Water Operator credential.

Work Environment and Travel

• Day travel of approximately 10%-20% to Reworld sites across Eastern and Central Massachusetts.
• Occasional evening, weekend, or holiday work to support testing, permitting, inspections, and compliance deadlines.
• Work throughout active industrial facilities, including hot, cold, dusty, noisy, wet, and odorous areas.
• Ability to wear required PPE and a respirator; climb ladders and work at heights with fall protection; lift heavy objects; and perform tasks such as pushing, pulling, sweeping, and shoveling.
• Reworld is a smoke-free worksite.

All Reworld positions require a candidate's ability to perform the duties and responsibilities of the role while upholding Reworld's Values, including (but not limited to) contributing to a safe and inclusive workplace, delivering results through trust, and building breakthrough capabilities.

Please note that Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Pay Transparency

Reworld is committed to paying its staff equitably, and we strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits packages. The range below reflects Reworld's reasonable estimate of base pay for this role based on primary posting location. It is expected that most qualified candidates in this location will fall within the posting range. The final salary offered for this role will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to: experience, education, geographic location, skills and competencies, travel requirements and/or union contracts (if applicable). Pay ranges are reviewed from time to time and may be modified in the future.

The pay range for the primary location of this position is: $87,300.00 - $116,200.00 USD per annum

Reworld™ provides an industry-leading benefits package that supports the whole person-and their families-through a balanced approach to mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. Regular full-time employees based in the USA have access to comprehensive medical, prescription drugs, dental, and vision coverage, FSA, HSA, short- and long-term disability benefits. Our 401(k) plan is industry-leading, with an up to 7% company match. Additional benefits include Company-paid life and AD&D insurance, EAP, paid parental leave, and educational assistance. For more information regarding these offerings, please visit the Reworld Careers Benefits Page. Reworld™ reserves the right to amend, suspend or terminate any benefit plan, in whole or in part, at any time.

Our DEI Commitment

Reworld is an Equal Opportunity Employer, has developed an Affirmative Action Program (AAP), and will not discriminate against any qualified applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability (including perceived disability, physical, mental, and/or intellectual disabilities), veteran status, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or any other characteristic protected by law.


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