Lead Environmental Engineer

Job description

AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect. Please view a short video about our company here, AdvanSix Video. For more information on AdvanSix, please visit our website at Why work at AdvanSix? • We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being • Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program • Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development • Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences Position Summary: The Environmental Leader is responsible for leading the environmental function for the AdvanSix Chesterfield, Virginia manufacturing site, a large manufacturing facility with air, water, waste, emergency planning, and environmental management system obligations. This role provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for environmental compliance, permitting, regulatory engagement, environmental risk management, and continuous improvement across the site. The Environmental Leader reports directly to the Chesterfield HSE Manager. The role leads compliance programs for air permitting, VPDES and pretreatment water discharges, stormwater, RCRA waste, SPCC/AST requirements, and Responsible Care/RC14001 environmental management system elements. This position works closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, corporate HSE, consultants, and regulatory agencies to ensure compliance, support capital projects, and protect AdvanSix’s license to operate. Duties and Responsibilities: The Environmental Leader provides overall leadership, direction, and accountability for the site’s environmental programs, ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local requirements while supporting safe, reliable, and compliant manufacturing operations. This role is responsible for leading environmental strategy, managing regulatory relationships, supporting capital and operational priorities, and driving continuous improvement in environmental performance across the Chesterfield site. • Lead all environmental compliance and permitting activities for the Chesterfieldl site, including programs under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, EPCRA, CERCLA, SPCC, FRP, Virginia AST requirements, and applicable state and local requirements. • Provide overall leadership for air compliance and permitting. • Oversee compliance with the facility’s VPDES permit for direct discharges, including monitoring, reporting, permit strategy, permit renewals, and implementation of compliance plans. • Oversee compliance with the industrial pretreatment permit for discharges to the POTW. • Manage the site industrial stormwater program, including SWPPP implementation, inspections, sampling, corrective actions, employee awareness, and regulatory reporting. • Provide overall leadership for site waste management, including RCRA regulated wastes, waste minimization, accumulation areas, inspections, contingency planning, contractor oversight, and disposal vendor performance. • Lead EPCRA and CERCLA compliance programs, including Tier II, release reporting, emergency planning, and regulatory notifications. • Manage SPCC Plan requirements and Virginia aboveground storage tank (AST) and oil discharge control plan compliance programs. • Lead communication, negotiation, inspection support, enforcement response, and relationship management with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. • Develop and execute regulatory compliance strategies for emerging environmental requirements and ensure new or revised obligations are evaluated, communicated, funded, and implemented. • Manage the environmental department budget, including consultants, contractors, sampling, monitoring, reporting, compliance projects, and other resources required to maintain compliance. • Provide environmental guidance to site leadership on compliance risks, priorities, regulatory developments, and strategic decisions. • Lead the on-site internal environmental audit program for functional compliance with AdvanSix environmental procedures and ensure timely corrective and preventive actions. • Review capital projects, process changes, management of change activities, and maintenance projects for environmental permitting requirements, regulatory impacts, and internal HSE standards. • Support environmental aspects of emergency response, incident investigation, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and lessons learned. • Participate in periodic environmental on-call duty to provide weekend and after-hours coverage for environmental incidents, regulatory notifications, operational support, and emergency response needs. • Implement and maintain applicable American Chemistry Council Responsible Care and RC14001 environmental management system elements, including planning, implementation, checking, corrective action, management review, and continual improvement. • Establish environmental performance metrics, compliance assurance routines, management review materials, and reporting processes for site and corporate leadership. Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or a related technical field. • Minimum of 7 years of environmental compliance, permitting, or environmental program management experience, including multi-media environmental compliance experience at an industrial facility. • Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting industrial or manufacturing operations. • Experience interacting with regulatory agencies on permitting, inspections, compliance matters, or enforcement-related activities. Additional Qualifications: • Strong working knowledge of federal and Virginia environmental regulations, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, EPCRA, CERCLA, SPCC, Virginia AST requirements, and applicable Virginia DEQ programs. • Demonstrated experience with air compliance and permitting, including NSR construction permitting, emissions inventories and deviation reporting. • Experience with water compliance programs, including VPDES permit compliance, wastewater discharge monitoring, industrial pretreatment, stormwater and discharge monitoring reports. • Experience with RCRA hazardous waste management, waste characterization, generator requirements, inspections, contingency planning, waste minimization, and waste vendor management. • Understanding of EPCRA and CERCLA reporting obligations, including TRI, Tier II, release reporting, emergency release notification, agency follow-up, and emergency planning interfaces. • Understanding of RC14001, Responsible Care, ISO 14001, or similar management system principles, including internal auditing, corrective action, management review, and continual improvement. • Ability to interpret regulations, permits, enforcement documents, technical reports, and regulatory guidance and translate them into practical site compliance requirements and risk-based decisions. • Strong project management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, compliance deadlines, capital project interfaces, budgets, consultants, and cross-functional teams. • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to prepare regulatory correspondence, executive summaries, compliance reports, and presentations and to build effective relationships with operations, engineering, maintenance, Corporate HSE, legal, consultants, regulators, and community stakeholders. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and environmental data, document management, or reporting systems is preferred. Base Salary for this role is $104,600 - $158,000 annually. We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include periodic pay rate adjustments based on market competitiveness. Hired applicants will be eligible for paid holidays, paid time off including vacation, eligibility to purchase company stock, tuition reimbursement, and a 401K with a competitive company match. Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary financial benefits such as incentive pay, equity awards, and participation in a deferred compensation plan. Hired applicants will be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending and health savings account eligibility, employer-provided short term disability benefits, eligibility to purchase long term disability benefits, employer-provided basic life insurance and eligibility to purchase voluntary life coverages. The pay range, incentives and benefits listed above are general guidelines only and not a guarantee of total compensation or benefits. The final offer will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, the responsibilities of the job, experience, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as the job location, applicability of a collective bargaining agreement, length of service, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The incentive pay is dependent on your role, business results and individual performance. All aspects of total rewards offered are subject to the terms and conditions of the specific plans. At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles. AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification. To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.