Senior Environmental Specialist

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

The Environmental Operations team ensures all environmental policies and procedures are in compliance throughout Pierce facilities. The Environmental Specialist Sr will lead the activities of environmental and sustainability programs in accordance with regulatory requirements and company policies, guidelines, and objectives.

YOUR IMPACT

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Lead Pierce's environmental compliance programs related to, but not limited to: air permitting, record keeping and compliance, wastewater treatment, storm water management, hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, and community right to know reporting.

• Core Technical Focus areas: Air permitting and Hazardous waste management

• Manage continual activities to ensure local, state, and federal environmental laws and regulations are being followed and there are no adverse environmental impacts and promote sustainability.

• Complete required inspections to maintain compliance with applicable environmental regulations.

• Provide complex research for projects by collecting environmental data and providing project documentation.

• Oversee internal audit programs and third-party vendor audits.

• Lead projects and cross functional teams to reduce waste to landfill, energy, water and hazardous waste that will ultimately reduce environmental related risk, liability and cost to the Company.

• Monitor progress of environmental improvement programs using metrics.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:   

• Bachelor’s degree in related field.

• Five (5) or more years of experience.

• Must be able to travel to our different manufacturing sites in Wisconsin

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS

Additional Environmental Compliance Areas (Preferred Knowledge):

• Tier II Reporting

• TRI (Toxic Release Inventory) Reporting

• AEI (Annual Emissions Inventory) Reporting

• Wastewater management and reporting

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Internal Contacts: Contact with peers and others involving explanation of information (these contacts may be within or outside department or division), and the gathering of factual information; may include the communication of sensitive or confidential information. Contact across departments or divisions with employees involving persuasion of others, absent formal authority, to conform to a policy interpretation or recommend course of action.

• External Contacts: Limited to frequent external contact to: gather information, answer queries, or ask assistance.

• Communication Skills: Read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Read and interpret safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Write routine reports, correspondence and speak effectively before both internal and external groups. Read, analyze and interpret business manuals, technical procedures and/or government regulations. Read, analyze and interpret scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.

• Decision-Making: Regularly makes decisions of responsibility, involving evaluation or information. Decisions may require development or application of alternatives or precedents.

• Complexity, Judgment and Problem Solving: Generally diversified and moderately difficult work. Requires judgement in the adaptation and interpretation of established practices and procedures to meet problems and situations to which the application is not clearly defined.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Physical Demands: Frequent: Standing, Walking/Running, Sitting, Reaching, Hearing, Talking, Visual, Typing; Occasional: Driving, Fine Dexterity, Manual Dexterity; Upper Extremity Repeti