Facility Environmental Compliance Specialist

Clean Earth is seeking a Facility Environmental Compliance Specialist in New Castle, PA, responsible for ensuring compliance with environmental permits. Key tasks include reviewing project proposals, conducting material sampling, maintaining records, and performing inspections to meet local, state, and federal regulations. The specialist will guide operations managers, evaluate treatment options, and prepare reports for regulatory agencies. The role emphasizes a hands-on approach to waste management and customer service in the specialty waste industry.
Company Description

Clean Earth is one of the largest specialty waste companies in the United States providing remediation, disposal, recycling, and beneficial reuse solutions for contaminated soil, dredged material, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Our vast portfolio of technologies and services touches nearly every industry that generates waste including energy, infrastructure, commercial, industrial, retail, and healthcare markets.

It is our unique capability of providing a one-source, full-service solution to handle multiple waste streams from a single customer that separates us from the competition. Our processes are detailed, our due diligence is tireless, and our results provide unmatched recycling solutions for our customers with the utmost in customer service.

Everyday Clean Earth takes a hands-on, dedicated approach to recycling and beneficially reusing waste that would otherwise go into landfills. Allow our team of experts to provide a customized waste disposal and recycling solution for your company, tailored to your needs, and your goals.

Job Description

The Facility Environmental Compliance Specialist is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure that CEM, CEGW and CEB operate in compliance with their respective permits. These tasks include technical reviews of projects that are being considered for acceptance at the facilities, inbound material sampling, outbound material sampling, technical review of sampling results, facility approvals, and performing inspection and documentation activities to ensure the facilities remain in compliance with their local, state, and federal permits.
• Review testing procedures, analysis, site history and waste description for contaminated soil that is being considered for acceptance at the facility
• Assist in approval of new and ongoing projects to ensure material meets acceptance criteria and maintain the records in accordance with the permit requirements
• Job folder preparation and filing, evaluation of inbound job files for completeness and acceptability in accordance with permit requirements, approve jobs in data management system
• Direct/perform sampling of both incoming material and processed batches of outgoing material, along with compliance sampling of groundwater including chain of custody and purchase order preparation, to ensure compliance with permit sampling frequency
• Provide guidance to facility Operations Managers regarding amending of incoming material to assure that processed batches meet end use specifications
• Determine treatment and outbound reuse options consistent with outbound facility requirements, submit approval packages to outbound facilities and provide certificates to clients as needed
• Review facility permits to ensure and verify compliance with permit conditions
• Perform routine inspections, sampling, and reporting as required by permits, local, state, and federal regulations and company environmental procedures
• Maintain records according to permit requirements.
• Prepare, review and submit quarterly and annual reports to regulatory agencies and maintain and review all permit required monitoring and data. Responsible for assuring all records are in compliance
• Respond to requests for information from customers and from Clean Earth sales representatives regarding acceptable and unacceptable material, testing requirements, the approval process, and permit status
• Participate in facility audits and inspections performed by local and state regulators and by client representatives

This is a hands-on role where you will be traveling to field locations approximately 25-40% of the time. Current driver’s license, clean driving record, and automobile required.

Qualifications

Basic Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or Environmental Sciences preferred but other science degrees considered
• 2+ years of experience in waste disposal, EH&S, environmental consulting, or environmental laboratory

Preferred Qualifications
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Possess excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• Experience using computerized systems
• Ability to manage several tasks at once to meet deadlines
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected

Physical And Mental Demands
• Ability to deal politely and professionally with customers and/or coworkers
• Ability to sit and/or stand for 100% of an 8-hour day
• Dexterity in hands and fingers to operate computer and other equipment and conduct field sampling
• Ability to read reports and job-related documents
• Must be dependable and conscientious
• Ability to pay close attention to detail
• Ability to follow direction or instruction

Additional Information

Clean Earth offers competitive benefits including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans starting on the first day of employment; paid time off, wellness benefits, employee discount program, tuition assistance, and a 401k with company matching.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or genetics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

If you have a difficulty applying for any job posted on Enviri Clean Earth’s website because a disability prevents you from using the online system, Clean Earth offers the following alternate application procedure: Call toll free (833) 209-2659 and leave your name, phone number, city and state of residence. Clean Earth will arrange for an alternate method of applying and will consider your application together with all other applications received for the job. This line is dedicated to disability applications only. No other inquiries will receive a response.

Military veterans encouraged to apply.