Environmental Compliance Specialist

reworld; Haverhill (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reworld is seeking a hands-on Environmental Compliance Specialist to oversee compliance programs across a thermomechanical treatment facility and satellite sites in a field-based role near Haverhill, MA. You will maintain air, water, and waste programs while working closely with operations, maintenance, and regulatory agencies.

This role emphasizes practical, accountable environmental management in an active industrial setting and requires on-site presence at facilities and strong collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, chemistry, biology, or related field.
• At least three years of direct, on-site environmental compliance experience in heavy industry, energy, or waste-to-energy facilities.
• Direct participation in environmental permits, renewals, or modifications.
• Experience with environmental testing, monitoring, data review, and regulatory reporting across programs.
• Familiarity with practical compliance in active industrial conditions.
• Experience working with operations, maintenance, contractors, consultants, laboratories, or regulatory agencies.
• Ability to use environmental data-management tools and prepare clear technical recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support air emissions, CEMS, ash, solid waste, stormwater, wastewater, and hazardous waste compliance.
• Participate in facility permit applications, renewals, modifications, and supporting documentation.
• Complete and review environmental testing, monitoring, data, records, and regulatory reports; ensure submittals meet standards.
• Conduct environmental walkdowns at facilities; document findings and coordinate corrective actions.
• Support air-emissions and CEMS activities, including review of records and testing results.
• Coordinate environmental testing with consultants, engineers, contractors, and labs.
• Analyze data to identify compliance risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Support regulatory-inspection readiness and communicate technical matters to teams and regulators.
• Monitor regulatory changes and help update permits, test plans, and procedures.
• Support community outreach for mercury diversion.

Skills

Environmental compliance

On-site field operations

Permits & regulatory reporting

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental science or related field

Tools

Data-management tools

Job description

Who we are

For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing our customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes.

Our Vision

Reworld is leading the charge to a carbon-negative future through revolutionary sustainable materials management solutions that reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine waste for the benefit of society and the environment.

Our Business

Reworld partners with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and innovative solutions, to help customers reduce, reuse, recycle and recover value from waste streams and meet or exceed their sustainability goals.

Our Value

Reworld's differentiator comes from our ecosystem of technology, facilities and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.

About the role

Seeking a hands-on Environmental Compliance Specialist for a field-based, operating-facility role for someone who has supported environmental compliance in heavy industry, energy, power generation, solid waste, or comparable plant operations.

This role offers visible, meaningful work across a solid waste-to-energy facility, also known as a Thermomechanical Treatment (TTF) Facility, two solid waste transfer stations, and a closed landfill. You will help maintain compliant air, CEMS, water, ash, solid waste, and hazardous-waste programs while building depth in a practical, high-accountability operating environment.The Environmental Compliance Specialist supports the Haverhill facilities (TTF and Landfill) and its satellite facilities (Lynn and Danvers Transfer Stations).

This role reports to the Haverhill Facility Manager and partners closely with the Regional Landfill Manager, Regional Environmental Director, plant operations, maintenance teams, consultants, laboratories, and regulatory agencies. Approximately 80% of the work supports the thermomechanical treatment facility and 20% supports transfer stations and landfills, facilities. This is not a laboratory, academic, research, or audit-only role. This work requires routine site presence and direct involvement in facility environmental compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Support environmental compliance programs for air emissions, CEMS, ash, solid waste, stormwater, wastewater, and hazardous waste.
• Participate directly in facility permit applications, renewals, modifications, and supporting documentation for construction, operation, and expansion.
• Complete and review environmental testing, monitoring, data, records, and regulatory reports; ensure submittals are accurate, complete, timely, and retained to Reworld and regulatory standards.
• Conduct environmental walkdowns at Haverhill facilities (TTF and Landfill) and satellite facilities (Lynn and Danvers Transfer Stations); document findings, coordinate corrective actions with operations and maintenance, and follow actions through closure.
• Support air-emissions and CEMS activities, including review of emissions records, testing results, equipment logs, and related reports.
• Coordinate environmental testing and compliance work with consultants, engineers, contractors, and testing laboratories.
• Analyze environmental and operational data to identify compliance risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support regulatory-inspection readiness and communicate technical compliance matters clearly to operating teams and external stakeholders.
• Monitor federal and state regulatory changes and help update permits, test plans, procedures, and compliance strategies.
• Support Reworld growth initiatives and community outreach for mercury and mercury-containing-product diversion.

Required Background

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, engineering technology, chemistry, biology, or a related scientific discipline. Relevant power-plant, industrial-operations, or military experience may be considered in place of a degree.
• At least three years of direct, on-site environmental compliance experience in a heavy-industrial, energy, power-generation, waste-to-energy, landfill, transfer-station, recycling, material-processing, or comparable operating facility.
• Direct participation in environmental permits, permit renewals or modifications, regulatory reports or submissions, facility inspections, and corrective-action follow-up.
• Direct experience with environmental testing, monitoring, data review, documentation, or reporting across multiple programs, such as air, water, solid waste, ash, stormwater, wastewater, potable water, or hazardous waste.
• Familiarity with facility operations and with the practical demands of maintaining compliance in active industrial conditions.
• Experience working with operations, maintenance, contractors, consultants, laboratories, or regulatory agencies.
• Ability to use environmental or operational data-management tools and prepare clear technical reco