Koch Industries

Environmental Manager

Koch Industries$80K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Engineering, or Natural Sciences (Chemistry, Biology)
  • Experience with environmental compliance and management systems
  • Practical application of Environmental Laws and regulations in a manufacturing facility
  • Field work experience related to air and water
  • Knowledge of Texas and federal environmental regulations, especially Title V air permitting

Responsibilities

  • Serve as technical expert and compliance standard owner for the site
  • Ensure compliance with federal (EPA) and state/local environmental requirements
  • Participate in strategic planning and environmental performance tracking
  • Train personnel on Georgia Pacific's environmental risk management system
  • Conduct incident investigations and corrective actions
  • Assist in the daily environmental compliance and permit management
  • Keep updated on new environmental engineering techniques

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Potential benefits for infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption support
Full Job Description
Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a self-motivated and driven Environmental Manager to join our Corrigan Plywood site in Corrigan, Texas

The Environmental Manager will perform professional work at multiple levels in support of the Environmental Department, the Plant, and Divisional/Corporate Environmental Programs. The individual will have responsibilities for the evaluation, development, implementation, troubleshooting, and management of the facility's environmental compliance programs and systems. This position will assist in ensuring facility compliance with pertinent governmental regulations, such as state and federal air regulations, drinking water, storm water, wastewater, hazardous waste and to relative company policies and procedures such as Georgia Pacific's Environmental Compliance Standards.

What You Will Do

  • Technical Expert and Compliance Standard Owner for the site
  • Manage compliance of federal (EPA) and state/local environmental program requirements, including but not limited to air, water/wastewater, stormwater, solid and hazardous waste, SPCC, CERCLA/EPCRA, TSCA, DOT and FCC
  • Participate in the plant's strategic planning and project review processes, track environmental performance metrics, and support continuous improvement of the facility's environmental management system
  • Assist with training personnel and implementing Georgia Pacific's environmental 7 Element Risk Management System
  • Participate in incident investigation, mitigation, root cause analysis and corrective action
  • Assist with day-to-day environmental compliance requirements of applicable permits, plans, and regulations - these may include collecting records, preparing reports, monitoring & directing work performed by consultants, conducting inspections, and sample collection
  • Stay current with new ideas, engineering and techniques in the environmental field
  • Represent facility during agency inspections and interactions
  • Identify cost effective solutions for technical and regulatory environmental issues
  • Work closely with the respective Regional Environmental Manager and/or Business Environmental Manager for guidance and direction on all environmental matters
  • Knowledge share with other GP Building Product facilities' environmental teams
  • Work collaboratively with mill operations to ensure the environmental program is effective across the mill
  • Proactively maintain a broad knowledge of current and emerging federal, state, and local Environmental regulatory requirements affecting mill operations
  • Train facility personnel with respect to environmental regulations
  • Obtain and maintain Method 9 Opacity certification


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Engineering or Natural Sciences (i.e.: Chemistry, Biology)
  • Environmental compliance and management systems experience


OR

  • Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Engineering or Natural Sciences (i.e.: Chemistry, Biology)

AND
  • Experience applying Environmental Laws and regulations in a manufacturing/industrial facility
  • Experience performing air and water field work
  • Working knowledge of Texas and federal environmental regulations including Title V air permitting program


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience conducting facility audits or inspections to identify improvement areas
  • Five (5) years or more of environmental compliance and management systems experience
  • Experience in a leadership role with the responsibility of direct reports


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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