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GENERAL SUMMARY

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. Works closely with all company organizations and levels of management to monitor, communicate, and report environmental information and performance, and to help resolve environmental problems and issues. These tasks are performed with an appropriate level of oversight.

Join Energy Northwest’s Environmental and Regulatory Programs department as a leader towards environmental stewardship and regulatory compliance. Typical tasks include but not limited to:

• Serve as lead and subject matter expert for a variety of environmental programs such as: hazardous waste management, hazardous materials transportation, spill response, air emissions permitting, refrigerant management, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit compliance, storm water management, pollution prevention, drinking water systems, and State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) compliance.

• Evaluate permitting requirements for new and existing projects.

• Monitor, interpret, and communicate environmental and other requirements. Identify and promote opportunities to improve environmental performance and safety.

• Conduct program assessments to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental and other regulatory requirements.

• Interface with regulatory agencies such as the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, Washington State Department of Ecology, and Washington State Department of Health.

• Support/lead inspections by regulatory agencies.

• Prepare complex technical environmental and regulatory reports.

This position provides opportunities for cross-training and professional development. The position is based at Columbia Generating Station in Richland, WA.

Preferred areas of experience and expertise: waste management and hazardous materials transportation, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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; REMP; Groundwater) are appropriately met and reported.

• Develop plans for programs, projects, audits, testing and inspections; lead audits and inspections. Use engineering judgment in evaluating results for findings. Respond to inspection reports and requests for interpretation and verification of industry and Energy Northwest issues. Participate in industry working groups and other discipline related activities.

• Perform regulatory analysis by monitoring changes in environmental regulations, and take actions to notify appropriate organizations and/or implement changes.

• Monitor plant events (condition reports) for impact/compliance with regulatory requirements. Provide assistance in determining reportability and making necessary notifications.

• Provide technical guidance routinely to other engineers; check and review technical products of others. Serve as a mentor.

• Integrate design, regulatory, operating, maintenance, and administrative requirements into tasks. Perform tasks within schedule and budget. Ensure effective coordination of efforts with other departments and disciplines. Work with minimum supervision.

Must participate on the Emergency Response Organization (ERO) when designated. Must support the biennial refueling outage.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Level IV

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an Environmental Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Biological Science, or related technical field from an accredited college or university and eight years of experience in an environmental related field.

Level III

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an Environmental Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Biological Science, or related technical field from an accredited college or university and five years of experience in an environmental related field.

Level II

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in an Environmental Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Biological Science or related technical field from an accredited college or university and three years of experience in an environmental related field.

Pay Range:

Level IV Salary: $108,279 - $162,419

Midpoint: $135,349

Level III Salary: $94,148 - $141,222

Midpoint: $117,685

Level II Salary: $81,862 - $122,792

Midpoint: $102,327

Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.

Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

Incentive Compensation

This role is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

Energy Northwest (EN) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance. EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan. Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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