Environmental Engineer

Teal Energi is seeking an Environmental Engineer in Coffeyville, KS, responsible for ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. Key duties include maintaining permits, preparing reports, managing regulatory programs, and interfacing with various departments and regulatory agencies. Candidates should have a relevant engineering degree and at least 2 years of experience in the refining or chemical industry, with a focus on environmental compliance.
Environmental Engineer

Location: Coffeyville, Kansas

Job Summary:

This professional staff position supports and leads compliance with local, state, and federal environmental regulations. The position will be responsible for: maintaining permits and approvals; leading recommendations for improvement to compliance and management systems; assessing compliance in assigned environmental media and continued knowledge development in all media; managing and maintaining assigned federal and state environmental regulatory programs; preparing and delivering training and compliance procedures; reviewing documentation for accuracy and completeness.

The position will require interfacing with Operations, Maintenance, Technical Services, Project Engineering, other refinery department personnel and contractors, and exposure to regulatory agencies and the public

Key accountabilities will include:
• Track refinery environmental performance day-to-day as environmental engineer for refinery in assigned media.
• Assist with environmental monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports, including NSPS/MACT reports, Tier II, Air Emissions Inventory, and others
• Work with environmental consultants to plan, schedule, and execute required emissions testing.
• Track and report on Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS) performance
• Support the on-going effort to implement environmental data assurance project including implementing quality alerts
• Complete the environmental KPI dashboarding for day-to-day real-time environmental compliance performance
• Become knowledgeable on flare operations, flare management plans, and investigate and report on potential flare events
• Participate in regulatory, inspections, audits, and reviews
• Manage time and resources to achieve deadlines; ability to prioritize tasks
• Participate in the Root Cause Analysis program
• Improve knowledge and skills through training, seminars, etc.
• Must be able to interface with all levels of the organization
• Regularly communicate with supervisor work progress questions and concerns
• Other duties as time permits or assigned:
• Collect and analyze data to develop conclusions and make recommendations regarding Environmental regulations.
• Support assigned projects for compliance, scope, schedule, and budget

Expected results:
• Prepare accurate and timely reports
• Develop and maintain environmental data management and reporting systems to track compliance
• Courteous and timely responses to information requests.
• Maintain highly organized records and reports in readily available location
• Support operational excellence with communication of environmental performance
• Excellent communication with peers, project team members and customers.
• Adherence to and promote company Mission and Values, standards, policies, and procedures

Education requirements:
• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering preferred. Other Engineering and related technical degrees with relevant experience will be considered
• Professional Engineer (PE) or Engineering-in-Training (EIT), preferred

Experience requirements:
• 2+ years refining, or chemical industry experience required and 2+ years environmental regulatory experience including air regulatory compliance preferred
• Mechanical aptitude, with strong mathematical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills required
• Understanding P&ID's and PFD's preferred
• Desire to work in a team environment as an active member
• Demonstrated competency of interpersonal skills
• Ability to alter work schedule to meet changing requirements
• Fluent in English, strong written and presentation technical communication skills required
• Intermediate computer skills (Word processing, graphics, spreadsheet) required

Physical requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status.