25-047.B - Environmental Specialist

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Houston, TX
Senior level
Energy
The Role
The Environmental Specialist facilitates compliance with environmental regulations, manages permits, prepares compliance reports, and provides technical support for environmental matters. They negotiate with agencies, conduct compliance assessments, and maintain adherence to environmental policies and procedures, while ensuring effective communication and relationships within the organization.
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Job Objective:
Facilitates compliance in a variety of environmental disciplines and media by implementing environmental reporting, training, and recordkeeping. Performs EHS-related administrative and permitting duties.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

  • Administers and maintains environmental permits
  • Evaluates environmental permit compliance status
  • Prepares new or improved methodologies for compliance
  • Strategically prepares environmental permit applications independently, including evaluating equipment and control options, limits on operations or throughput, and stack parameters.  Works with operations to complete applications that are fit-for-purpose 
  • Negotiates permit terms with relevant agencies
  • Prepares compliance reports, including but not limited to emissions inventories, greenhouse gas reports, deviation reports, compliance certifications, remediation reports, Tier II reports, and waste generation reports
  • Creates and implements new or improved measures for permit compliance and reporting
  • Conducts site environmental compliance assessments at gas processing plants, storage sites, and compressor stations
  • Provides environmental technical support and guidance to operations on new and existing regulations and permit requirements
  • Interprets new regulations and identifies options for compliance
  • Oversees environmental contractors
  • Reviews Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR), spill cleanup, and waste handling reports
  • Ensures compliance of laboratory testing results
  • Creates and supports environmental systems, policies, and procedures
  • Represents company in regulatory compliance audits and negotiates with agencies on Notices of Violation
  • Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment and innovation
  • Supports company vision and mission
  • Adheres to established work schedule, attendance standards and is punctual to work and meetings

Other Job Responsibilities:

  • Ability to be available 24 hours per day (on call for questions, emergencies, etc.)
  • Maintains employee confidence and protects company assets, including intellectual property, by keeping information confidential
  • Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional associations.
  • Other duties as assigned by management

Qualifications:

  • Ten (10+) years minimum regulatory and environmental oil and gas experience.
  • Ability to accurately solve problems and exceptional proficiency in data management.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, supervisors, other departments, officials, and the public.
  • Ability to complete multiple, diverse tasks of differing priorities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with specific ability to translate complex information into an organized and presentable manner.
  • Outstanding administrative and organizational skills.
  • Proficiency in the use and application of the following software:
    • Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and Outlook)
    • State and Federal online reporting portals

Education Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year university or college
The Company
Houston, TX
220 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Harvest Midstream is a privately-held midstream company services provider headquartered in Houston, Texas with assets in Alaska, Louisiana, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Harvest transports and processes oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids across the United States.

The remarkable growth of Harvest since 2002 is a direct result of the hard work and dedication of over 400 employees who are intensely focused on safety, operational excellence and the highest levels of service to our customers. Our company values govern how we run our business, how we treat our fellow employees and how we serve our customers. At Harvest, we are focused on developing and maintaining long-term business relationships through customer service and agility in every business interaction.

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