EHS Specialist

EHS Specialist

The Environmental Health & Safety Specialist will be responsible for conducting a variety of environmental health and safety compliance, audit, inspection, and reporting activities to ensure all environmental programs comply with applicable laws, regulations, and requirements. This role provides technical expertise and support for implementation and execution of environmental requirements and sustainability project development, assisting improvement of company-wide environmental performance. This role will support the Coppell, Texas and the Ft. Worth, Texas Facilities.

• Assist environmental programs of wastewater, storm water, waste management and air pollution control to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
• Assist in managing housekeeping personnel.
• Adhere to all safety policies and procedures including, but not limited to, Lock Out/Tag Out/Try Out (LOTOTO) (ensuring machinery is off before performing maintenance or repair), hot work, confined spaces work, use of powered industrial machines, etc.
• Manage DI process water system maintenance, sanitation and operation.
• Assist in the preparation environmental reports for EPA, TCEQ, City, and TRA to ensure compliance with permit conditions, including Annual Waste Summary (AWS), Pollution Prevention (P2) plan, wastewater semi-annual report, and storm water benchmark reports.
• Assist in the development of company-wide environmental standards, Work Instructions, and SOPs.
• Assist in the management of and update STEERS, NOR, wastewater permit, Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP), SPCC, and Air Pollution Control PBR Permit.
• Assist in RCRA Hazardous and Non-Hazardous Waste classification, profile, sorting, labeling, disposal, recycle, shipping preparation, and DOT transportation.  Assist in waste minimization and cost reductive plans and achieve zero landfill goals.
• Inspect and audit plant environmental programs for conformance to EPA, TCEQ, and local applicable environmental regulations and maintain records.
• Work with management teams to identify, develop, and implement continuous improvement and sustainability projects applicable to both regulatory and operational improvements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Competent with computer software, such as Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
• Competent in technical report writing.
• Working knowledge of project management and organization skills.
• Must be self-motivated, fast-paced, able to work independently and multi-task.

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or minimum of 2 years of relevant environmental experience.
• Some working knowledge of wastewater treatment, hazard communication, PBR, SPCC, SWPPP, and STEERS.
• Working knowledge of project management and organizational skills.
• HAZWOPER 40-Hour Training Certificate is preferred.
• Must be self-motivated, fast-paced, able to work independently and multi-task.

• Lift, push and pull up to 75 pounds, walking and standing for long periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
• The ability to work extreme weather of hot, cold and exposed to rain.
• While Preforming the duties of the job employee may be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibrations.
• The ability to safely work with chemicals and hazardous material.
• The ability to safely climb ladders.