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Environmental Specialist - The Marathon Dickinson Renewable Facility has an opening for an Environmental Specialist – This position will focus on air compliance and will assist with the overall environmental compliance at our Dickinson and Mandan, North Dakota locations. This position will ensure compliance with federal and state rules and regulations related to air compliance. The position will be responsible for interacting with regulatory agency inspectors during inspections/audits. This position will gather environmental data for interpretation and/or maintain regulatory compliance standards and maintain required permits and plans and communicate all regulatory issues to facility personnel. The position will be responsible for preparing and reviewing permits & reports, investigating complaints and non-compliant issues, gathering data, interpreting the data, and making compliance determinations. This position will interact with the Environmental, Safety, Operations, Maintenance and Engineering staff at the Facilities, as well as suppliers in implementing cost effective and innovative environmental prevention solutions to reduce environmental liabilities at the site.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that all environmental related activities are completed with adherence to environmental federal and state regulations.
• Prepare regulatory reports and coordinate fee payments associated with environmental compliance.
• Respond to Notices of Violation (NOV) and Letters of Apparent Non-Compliance (LOAN) issued by regulatory agencies for potential non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Work with contractors to ensure low cost, environmentally compliant and operationally efficient environmental processes are in place. 
• Provide oversight/direct supervision to contractors, audit contractor activities and approve labor and equipment charges.
• Assist in managing the environmental budget for the facility.  Approve, allocate and coordinate invoice payments for environmental spending.
• Leads efforts to complete reporting for excess emissions events, including emissions calculations and supporting the investigation and corrective action process.
• Point of contact for agencies on required reports, payments, and inspections.
• Work as a member of an Area Team to support day-to-day operation of the refinery in compliance with applicable requirements and company policies.
• Develop and maintain procedures and compliance plans and training materials ensuring that Environmental Procedures are kept current and accurate.

• Provide regulatory compliance assistance to other departments within the refinery.

• Review refinery projects for regulatory compliance and develop compliance schedules.
• Review new regulations for potential impacts on the refinery.
• Completes internal auditing of air permit and air regulatory compliance.
• Communicate environmental requirements to contractor staff, operations, and maintenance.
• Perform emergency response activities such as release notification, reporting,  and agency discussion. 

Education, Experience and Skills

 Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required with 5 years of relevant environmental experience in a process industry (e.g. refining, midstream, petrochemical or other heavy industrial); or bachelor’s degree in a HES related field with no relevant environmental experience; or bachelor’s degree in engineering with no relevant environmental experience.
• Ability to monitor compliance with environmental regulations.
• Ability to develop business acumen and technical knowledge.
• Must be team-oriented, self-motivated, detailed oriented, and have good organizational and time management skills. Must have good analytical and problem-solving skills. Must be adaptable working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft: Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Must be able to wear appropriate PPE in the facility (respirator), be able to physically perform all tasks in the field and take hair drug test and physical.
• Must have a valid driver’s license. (MPC determines valid status.)
• Travel Requirement is 30% or less.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required with 10 years of relevant environmental experience in a process industry (e.g. refining, midstream, petrochemical or other heavy industrial); or bachelor’s degree in a HES related field with 5 years relevant environmental experience; o