Environmental Manager

Company:

INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?

Offer Range: $158,000 - 195,000

Organizational context and job purpose

The INEOS O&P USA business manufactures and markets Ethylene, Propylene, Butadiene, Polypropylene and Polyethylene. Manufacturing sites include Chocolate Bayou Works (Alvin, TX), Battleground Manufacturing Complex (LaPorte, TX), and Carson PP Unit, (Carson, CA), with a division office in League City,

Purpose of Job

The Environmental Manager provides leadership and support to the O&P INEOS (O&P) sites for the development and coordination of implementing compliance strategies to enable cost effective compliance with Local, State and Federal environmental requirements. In this role, permit development, compliance plans and audits, and advocacy are executed to ensure that business operations are viable.

The role is responsible for strategic compliance elements that include monitoring and assessing the impact of new regulations, compliance planning / implementation, tracking of emissions credits, and advisor for capital projects. The position covers a diverse range of environmental media including air, water, waste, soil, groundwater, and wetlands. This role is the primary O&P representative for regulatory interactions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and the Railroad Commission of Texas.

This position must be able to carry a plan through the approval process and lead the project to implementation by determining approvals and resources required, organizing the appropriate internal and external resources, and managing the team to accomplish the task with clear communication of progress to pertinent management. The tasks usually involve managing large-scale permitting efforts that cross multiple groups or departments and external parties including regulatory agencies and contractors. Examples are HRVOC allocation tracking, NOx trading compliance, Maintenance Permitting, Flexible Permitting, Title V Deviation reporting, and NAAQS monitoring (National Ambient Air Quality Standard), Green House Gas reporting and permitting.

How the Role Fits In:

INEOS encompasses a wide range of products, feedstocks and assets in locations that must meet the most stringent air quality requirements in the United States from both a state and federal governing standpoint for industrial sources. These requirements result in the expenditure of millions of dollars and significant staff resources to implement and monitor to assure compliance and maintain Ineos’ license to operate. Enforcement for violations is aggressive in our operating locations of California & Texas and requires very defensive and thorough implementation of the requirements along with maintaining relationships with regulatory agency staff who have the delegated enforcement responsibility from the US EPA and staying up to date with plant operations at all O&P locations.

Responsibilities AND Accountabilities

Accountability 1:

Through analysis, providing solutions to complex and vaguely defined issues regarding regulatory matters relating to air quality.

• Performs complex permitting strategies and application development and manages the review and negotiation of such with the TCEQ for renewals, amendments, capital projects, Title V and other federal permits.
• Prepare and lead negotiation with staff at the highest level (Executive Director and Regional Administrator – both political appointees) in TCEQ and EPA Region VI regarding air quality permits and compliance.
• Identification and resolution to compliance conflicts between operating.
• Maintaining the highest level of knowledge in O&P of the state and federal requirements on all air emissions sources under the Clean Air Act and the Texas Code.
  
  

Accountability 2:

Provides Program Implementation/Management

• Participates on Capital planning teams as the SHEQ representative to ensure that the SHE issues are properly risk ranked for funding, technically prepared for compliance and risk management, and progressed against regulatory deadlines.
• Serves as SPA for critical path air issues on major regulatory implementation such as Climate Change.
• Project leadership is provided to augment the site staff to avoid disruption of the delivery of routine, day-to-day responsibilities.
  
  

Accountability 3:

Provides Team Leadership

• Mentors site personnel in the development of permits and agency submittals to ensure consistency in applying regulatory requirements
• Leads a regular meeting with the O &P Site and SHE management as well as air quality staff to ensure emerging issues are included in site planning efforts and that consistency is promoted across the sites through rigorous sharing of lessons learned related to compliance and actual operating practices.
• Presenting ideas and concepts to non-discipline colleagues and management in a manner that is respectful and understandable.
  
  

Accountability 4:

Acts as business Technical Authority

• Acts as the company’s most senior technical person on environmental regulatory matters relating to air quality issues which carry large financial liabilities as well as a bearing on our license to operate.
• Responsible for content development and updates for the Environmental elements of the business SHE Management System (SMS).
• Participates in re-financing, merger and acquisition activities with discretion and efficient risk and regulatory insight.
  
  

Accountability 5:

Interaction with industry experts

• For knowledge of emerging technology, proposed regulations and industry best practices, networking with industry experts is required through the most cost-effective approaches i.e. AFPM, TCC, TIP and other personal longstanding professional relationships.
• Building on engineering and operations experience, problem solving must consider a broad range of internal and external factors when solving problems to provide the best cost and risk management options.
• Can see applications for practices from different industries that could benefit our business especially across the various INEOS assets applying best practices from olefins and polymers into pipelines.
  
  

Accountability 6:

Stewardship of People

• Supervise environmental professionals, advisors, and provide for professional and career development.
• Provide direction for SHE service providers.
  
  

Accountability 7:

Coordinate data reporting as part of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

• Business representative for INEOS Carbon & Energy Network (CEN).
• Manage ESG annual reporting efforts into INEOS Group.
• Advise business on issues regarding Product Environmental Footprint and Life Cycle Analysis (PEF/LCA)
  
  

Skills & Knowledge Required

Education/Experience

• Bachelor Degree in engineering/technical discipline
• 15 years experience in environmental permitting and regulatory compliance
• Advanced degree(s) may be considered for relevant experience
• 5 years experience in a Corporate/Division or multi-unit facility oversight role
• Proven performance in regulatory Program Implementation
• Extensive background working with air compliance regulatory applications
  
  

Being recognized as a company expert on regulatory matters relating to environmental issues which carry large financial liabilities as well as a bearing on our license to operate.

Experience in operations positions is highly desired for application of problem solving, risk management and impact of project implementation to routine operations.

Skills/Competencies

Technical skills

• Able to look at a system or data from a system and identify inherent problems and develop specific solutions with plans for implementation.
• Demonstrated understanding of complex 6-sigma tools and practices
• Insight based on knowledge and experience to identify undefined restrictions in processes and systems and create solutions.
• Able to determine the best method out of multiple possibilities of solving broad and complicated problems. (“Right” answer not necessarily the easiest path to go.)
• Must be able to utilize years of experience and know-how to develop new concepts and approaches.
• Develops local discipline policies and practices as well as approves modified and new procedures and standards.
  
  

Behavioural skills

• Delegating appropriately
• Setting and distributing priorities
• Motivating others
• Business acumen
• Organizational agility
• Political savvy
• Managerial courage
• Interacts with industry experts to apply new technology as intended to existing practices to achieve improved business performance.
• Manage large implementation efforts that involve multiple groups.
• Challenges management perspectives to enhance performance
• Able to present ideas and concepts to non-discipline colleagues and management in a manner that is respectful and understandable.
• Creates an environment in which quality information flows freely between self and others; encourages open expression of ideas and opinions.
• Recognizes the need for new or modified approaches and acts ahead of need.
• Considers a broad range of internal and external factors when solving problems.
• Ability to see applications for practices from different industries that could benefit our business.
• Works with functional policies and toward accomplishing local and company goals.
• Supervision is indirect general managerial direction based on corporate guidelines and experience in the environmental, operations and transportation field for application in mentoring site personnel.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Frequently (70-100%) sitting.
• Occasionally (30-60%) lifting and carrying up to 20 pounds.
• Infrequently (10% or less) ascending and descending stairs, bending, stooping, twisting, kneeling, and reaching at/below shoulder height.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; viewing a computer screen and extensive reading.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
• This position requires the employee to always be alert, able to concentrate on their task at hand, and not impaired by medications (prescription, non-prescription, illegal or legal substances including alcohol), or any other mental condition which adversely affects alertness, concentration, or judgment.
  
  

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance. On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.