Environmental Compliance Administrator

Aqua, an Essential Utilities company, employs people in a variety of roles within our eight-state footprint, ranging from field workers and customer service representatives who are on the front lines working with customers, to scientists and engineers who help ensure we’re delivering reliable water and wastewater services to our communities.  If you’re looking for a rewarding career helping improve our environment and protect our natural resources, we encourage you to join our team!

About Essential Utilities

Essential Utilities, Inc. delivers safe, clean, reliable services that improve quality of life for individuals, families, and entire communities.

Operating as the Aqua (water and wastewater services) and the Peoples and Delta (natural gas) brands, Essential serves approximately 5.5 million people across 10 states. We are committed to sustainable growth, operational excellence, a superior customer experience, and premier employer status - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S. 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Schedules sampling for water and/or wastewater systems and assists operators and managers with sampling issues.
• Records and monitors test results in the Aqua compliance database and/or spreadsheets.
• Organizes and tracks compliance data for inclusion in reports, including field data.  Plots and graphs data and tracks compliance.  Drafts compliance reports and ensures timely filing of all compliance reports and permits.  Identifies gaps in documents or potential areas of non-compliance and suggests resolutions.
• Responsible for administrative functions of the procure to pay process including initiating Purchase Requisitions, managing vendor invoices for coding and coordination with Accounts Payable Department.
• Performs regular review of water and wastewater analytical data and makes recommendations to the department leadership to ensure compliance or when non-compliance occurs.
• Reviews inspection reports and regulatory correspondence.  Meets with operators and managers to discuss regulatory information.  Works with engineering and/or management to draft responses.
• Prepares and submits necessary paperwork for reduced monitoring for any contaminant that allows reductions from the base monitoring frequency.
• Tracks and monitors laboratory budget to ensure laboratory testing budget is on target. Assists with budget preparation as needed.
• Facilitates and participates in training of operations staff on compliance matters.  Provides regulatory updates to facility operators of any new sampling requirements and provides periodic updates of laboratory results to operations.
• Coordinates, drafts and issues any public notices.  Partners with management, engineering and PR staff as needed on communications.
• Researches and provides pertinent information to department leadership in response to state violations, i.e., monitoring/maximum containment level violations.
• Serves as a company representative to discuss water quality issues with customers who contact Aqua.  Performs and logs phone conversations and mails test results to customers.
• Prepares annual Consumer Confidence Reports (CCR) for all systems in accordance with annual deadlines.  Prepares CCR certifications for each system.
• Files all documentation in accordance with department operating procedures.
• Performs other related activities as requested.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Activities, duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, biology, or chemistry preferred
• 2 -4 years related experience preferred.
• Experience working with databases and computerized maintenance management systems preferred (e.g. Cority, SAP, LIMS)