About this role
Develops, implements, and administers environmental programs to ensure the safety of Energy Northwest facilities and protect human health and the environment. Provides leadership and coordination in developing company policies, programs, and procedures for assigned environmental programs to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations.
Responsibilities
- Assigned owner for one or more environmental programs.
- Interface with state and federal regulatory agencies.
- Responsible for routine written and oral communications with those agencies including participation in audits, inspections, and assessments using skills and experience gained through application of standards and regulatory requirements.
- Provide technical advice and proactive counsel to management on a wide range of complex environmental regulatory issues, interpretation and verification of industry guidance, and regulatory requirements for application to plant specific issues.
- Provide verbal and written management presentations on industry and generating station issues, preparation and presentation of new permit applications and subsequent amendments, and participation in industry regulatory initiatives.
- May provide unconventional or advanced problem solving techniques.
- Routinely provide technical leadership on complex and/or extended programs and projects.
- Coordinate with other Energy Northwest organizations to ensure environmental monitoring requirements (e.g., NPDES.
- Groundwater) are appropriately met and reported.
- Develop plans for programs, projects, audits, testing and inspections; lead audits and inspections.
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