Environmental Manager - Full-time

Groendyke Transport is seeking a full-time Environmental Manager in Baton Rouge, LA. The role involves ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, overseeing cleaning activities, managing waste disposal, conducting audits, and maintaining environmental plans. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in the field. Strong organizational and communication skills are essential, along with the ability to attain environmental certifications. The position requires occasional physical activities in an office setting.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local environmental regulations.
• Direct environmental and cleaning activities to maintain regulatory compliance.
• Assist in the development of environmental and cleaning policies.
• Oversee proactive maintenance to ensure all company cleaning racks comply with safety, environmental regulations, and company policies.
• Develop and implement controls to ensure environmental and cleaning procedures are followed.
• Manage the safe and efficient disposal of all waste (liquid or solid) leaving a facility or tank trailer, except for approved customer deliveries.
• Assist in emergency response efforts, including spill containment and cargo loss incidents.
• Conduct and oversee environmental audits for existing and future properties.
• Ensure terminals have required environmental plans in place and provide necessary training, including conducting required inspections.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of applicable environmental regulations.
• Collaborate with environmental consulting firms, assigning and overseeing engineering and remediation work, and ensuring billing accountability.
• Monitor operations to limit environmental liability, implement best practices, and ensure responsible environmental stewardship.
• Oversee compliance and integration of underground and aboveground fuel systems.
• Ensure completion of all mandated annual, quarterly, and monthly reporting required by regulatory agencies.
• Oversee emissions calculations and reporting as required by air permitting.
• Manage and maintain cleaning ticket administration, including cleaning codes and reporting.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:
• Ability to attain Associate Environmental Professional (AEP) certification and, subsequently, Registered Environmental Manager (REM) certification through the National Registry of Environmental Professionals.
• Supervisory or managerial experience in tank cleaning operations.
• Experience in the tanker industry.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, including professional email correspondence.
• Initiative and innovation in problem-solving.
• Highly motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in daily operations.
• Experience and knowledge of environmental regulations.
• Strong financial analytical skills.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
• This role oversees and supervises all cleaning rack functions.

Work Environment:
• The work environment is primarily an indoor office setting; however, occasional physical indoor and outdoor activities are required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Physical Functions:
• Primarily a sedentary role with some walking.
• Occasional minimal lifting (up to 20 lbs).
• Must be able to speak, hear, and have vision appropriate for job requirements.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Requirements

Education and Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in an environmentally related discipline such as environmental engineering, health/science, environmental management, or hazardous materials management.

Computer Equipment and Software Requirements:
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).