Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Position Summary

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.

This position requires a full-time, five-day on-site presence at our Fort Worth, Texas office. Remote and hybrid work arrangements are not available.

Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• 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.

Technical Skills Required

• 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.

Experience Required

• 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.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly sit, stand, and walk for extended periods of time.
• Ability to sit, balance, climb, stand, bend, squat, squeeze, kneel, turn, crouch, and stoop repeatedly.
• Physically able to lift 75 pounds and manipulate up to a 500-pound drum on a regular basis.
• Frequent exposure to varying temperatures, rain, loud noises, heavy machinery, fumes, airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, electrical, chemicals, and moving parts.
• Prolonged use of computer screen