Environmental Compliance Supervisor

Top Quality Recruitment (TQR); Crookston (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Quality Recruitment (TQR) is seeking an Environmental Compliance Supervisor to ensure factory adherence to environmental sampling, testing, and reporting protocols. The role troubleshoots noncompliance issues and implements corrective actions.

Key activities include emission testing, permit compliance, water sampling oversight, and coordinating with maintenance and lab teams to optimize environmental performance and reporting to MPCA.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of environmental law and applicable permits for the factory.
• Experience interpreting and complying with environmental regulations.
• Willingness to secure required licensing within two years of employment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure facility compliance with environmental sampling, testing, and reporting.
• Conduct emission testing and maintain records for PM10, SO2, NOX, CO, CO2 and other regulated units.
• Coordinate with lab and operators for water sampling and wastewater analysis.

Skills

Environmental law understanding

Permits knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Education

Four-year technical education

Licensing/Certification in environmental fields

Job description

The Environmental Compliance Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring factory compliance with established environmental sampling, testing, and reporting. This position troubleshoots noncompliance issues and takes corrective measures as appropriate.

Key Activities

• Conducts the daily opacity test on air emissions and maintains records.
• Required emission stack compliance testing for PM10, SO2, NOX, CO, CO2, greenhouse gases, opacity, or other emission units regulated by the Title V permit. In the event the opacity is out of compliance, the incumbent notifies local factory management and the corporate environmental department. The incumbent will ensure adjustments are then made to bring the opacity into compliance, followed by retesting and notifications.
• Ensures compliance within permitted emission levels of all factory emission points such as pulp and sugar dryers, boilers, lime kiln, baghouses, and cyclones. This includes coordinating, conducting, and completing the emission testing as required for permit compliance. Also maintains updated operating and maintenance plans for air pollution control equipment.
• Monitors daily hydrogen sulfide levels per Minnesota Stipulation Agreement and applies approved chemicals as needed to ensure compliance. Monitoring and taking corrective action to ensure compliance with the Stipulation Agreement is a major accountability. This position also maintains appropriate chemical inventory as required.
• Oversee and coordinate with operators and the lab to ensure all water samples are collected properly and promptly for lab analysis. Monitor test results and determine the causes and the best methods of correction when wastewater treatment performance issues arise.
• NPDES Treatment of Wastewater – each factory discharges between 150 and 300 million gallons of water into the river each year. This position ensures compliance with all discharge parameters and files monthly eDMR’s with the MPCA.
• Monitors and oversees the activities of the wastewater treatment operations to maximize performance, throughput, uptime, and chemical optimization.
• SWPPP Storm Water Collection – ensure compliance with storm water collection, treatment, and discharge requirements.
• Solid Waste Landfill – each factory produces lime waste. The incumbent ensures that the inert lime landfill complies with regulations; this position is required to be certified as a Solid Waste Landfill Operator and coordinates annual operator landfill training.
• Mud Remediation – Ensures compliance with solid waste permits, including groundwater monitoring, soil nutrient testing, surface water collection and storage, and offensive odor ratings. Where applicable, oversees mud pressing operations to maximize performance, throughput, uptime, and chemical optimization. Manages factory-owned land application fields.
• Pulp & Tailings – disposal within permitted requirements and conduct site inspections. Completes by-product management annual report within the established time frame. Manages and coordinates byproducts, hauling, and disposal. Implement measures to more accurately track and acquire efficiencies in the factory land application of by-products at the factory. Leads the management of byproducts while maintaining the factory yard, landfills, and ponds. Coordinates with Ag personnel as needed while managing by-products. Industrial byproducts (IBP) license or management per the MPCA IBP process.
• Manages the ICM maintenance activities and projects in the wastewater areas.
• Works alongside the factory maintenance superintendent to ensure proper planning and scheduling are completed for ICM projects and tasks.
• Keeps roads, ditches, and areas at the perimeter of the factory clean and clear for the general public.
• Oversees factory snow removal and ice remediation of the factory entrance and designated roads.

Preferred Skills

• This position requires a basic understanding of environmental law and in-depth knowledge and understanding of the permits under which the factory must operate; this position is the factory’s environmental expert.

Educations & Experience

• Four-year technical education.
• Environmental Compliance Supervisors are also required to secure licensing as shown below during the first two years in this position, unless otherwise noted below.
• A valid driver's license is also required.

TQR is an equal-opportunity employer that encourages diversity. We will consider all applications.

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request.