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Environmental Specialist - Waste

The Marathon Anacortes Refinery has an opening for an Environmental Specialist - Waste at our Anacortes, Washington location. This position will ensure compliance with federal, state, and county rules and regulations related to hazardous and non-hazardous waste and remediation.  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 prepare required permits and waste plans and communicate all regulatory waste issues to refinery 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 Refinery, 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 waste & maintenance related activities are completed with adherence to environmental federal, state and county regulations.
• Prepare regulatory reports and coordinate fee payments associated with waste & maintenance activities.
• Provide assurance and verification for environmental compliance for waste & maintenance activities.
• Respond to Notices of Violation (NOV), Notices to Comply (NTC) issued by regulatory agencies for potential non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Manage the waste handling contractor and work with other contractors to ensure low cost, environmentally compliant and operationally efficient waste management processes are in place. 
• Provide oversight/direct supervision to hazardous waste contractors, audit contractor activities and approve labor and equipment charges.
• Manage the budget for waste disposal and transportation off-site for the refinery. Approve, allocate and coordinate invoice payments for waste disposal and transportation.
• Evaluate waste for proper identification, handling and disposal site. Prepare profiles, manifests and other waste shipping documentation.
• Lead for waste minimization, pollution prevention and recycling programs at refinery.
• Point of contact for agencies on required reports, payments and inspections.
• Interact with disposal sites and transporters to ensure proper waste management of all refinery wastes.  Manage the audit program for TSDFs and hazardous waste transporters.
• Interpret and incorporate new regulations as they relate to current refinery waste practices.
• Develop procedures for waste and maintenance related activities applying knowledge of RCRA, TSCA, OSHA, DOT & WA Department of Ecology regulations.  Ensure that Environmental Procedures assigned to the waste specialist are kept current and accurate.
• Communicate environmental requirements to waste handling contractor staff, groups generating refinery waste, refinery management and maintenance.
• Interact with refinery maintenance groups to ensure proper management of waste and materials.  Coordinate coverage of these groups during periods of high activity including capital projects and turnarounds.
• Develop waste handling plan for turnaround activities specific to the units.
• Perform emergency response activities such as release notification, equipment breakdown, reporting, odor patrols and agency discussion when on-call. 

Education, Experience and Skills

 Minimum 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; or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 2 years relevant environmental experience
• 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 refinery (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 det