Senior Environmental Engineer

Environmental Engineer

We have an opening for an Environmental Engineer to work in partnership with leadership and employees at our Mill centrally located between Raleigh, NC and Richmond, Va. This is a unionized facility with approximately 400 employees. Experience ownership firsthand as you ensure the compliance and performance management of one or more environmental media areas (air, water, solid/hazardous waste, hazardous substances) at a world class integrated corrugated medium paper production facility.

How You Will Impact:

• Serve as a technical expert for the mill’s business units (pulp, power, wood yard, and paper)
• Primary contact with regulatory agencies and other outside stakeholder groups
• Maintains complex environmental permitting and regulatory tracking
• Resolves high profile environmental issues
• Knowledgeable of emerging state and local environmental regulations
• Provides support during development of regulatory compliance programs
• Drives continuous improvement opportunities including system development
• Promotes employee engagement to achieve desired results
• Ability to explain complex processes and regulatory requirements in layman’s terms
• Supports operations in reviewing environmental controls systems
• Ability to maintain records in “audit ready” condition
• Establish, write, and communicate programs and policies to comply with regulatory programs
• Conduct training to both hourly and salaried personnel
• Participate in the on-call weekend duty rotation
• Vacation relief, and miscellaneous water treatment lab bench work (BOD, TSS, TOC, etc.)
• Implement programs and prepare a variety of regulatory reports which include data collection, calculations, accurate record keeping, and an adherence to regulatory guidelines with minimal supervision

What You Need To Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• Must have experience in air program (Title V, including stack testing) in a large integrated facility
• 2+ years environmental experience in a manufacturing facility.
• Pulp & Paper experience strongly preferred.
• Must be detail-oriented
• Excellent Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word) Skills
• Knowledge of local, state, and federal environmental regulations
• North Carolina wastewater treatment certification, or the ability to achieve at least Grade III.
• Excellent organizational, planning, time management, and prioritization skills
• Good Customer Focus, Decision Making Skills Excellent Problem Solving and Written Communications Skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Working Knowledge of VBA or Pi

What We Offer:

• Corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability and excellence
• Comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities
• An attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies and potential
• A career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.