Environmental Engineer: Coke Plant Compliance & Inspections

DTE Vantage; River Rouge (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Embedded at the EES Coke Operations in River Rouge, MI, this Environmental Engineer supports day-to-day and long-term environmental compliance for a heavy industrial coke facility. The role manages programs, inspections, regulatory reporting, permits, data management, investigations, corrective actions, and agency interaction to ensure adherence and safe operations.

Collaborate with operations, maintenance, engineering, environmental staff, and contractors to identify issues, implement practical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental science, chemistry, or a related technical field from an accredited college or university.
• Four years of relevant experience in environmental compliance, permit implementation, regulatory reporting, or permit development.
• Strong working knowledge of environmental compliance requirements applicable to heavy industrial facilities.
• Ability to interpret permits, regulations, and technical requirements and translate them into practical plant practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills using field observations, data analysis, regulatory research, and collaboration with operations and maintenance personnel.
• High degree of organization with ability to manage multiple deadlines, inspections, reports, records, agency requests, and corrective actions.
• Strong technical writing, documentation, and agency communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, environmental databases, compliance tracking tools, and document control practices.
• Ability to work independently while keeping leadership informed of risks, priorities, deadlines, and recommended actions.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned environmental compliance programs, including air, water, waste, chemical, and community-right-to-know obligations.
• Interpret and apply federal, state, and local regulations, permit conditions, and facility procedures to operations, maintenance activities, projects, and compliance decisions.
• Conduct field inspections, walkdowns, audits, and compliance assessments of coke battery, by-product recovery, wastewater treatment, material handling, waste management, and supporting operations.
• Prepare and support regulatory reports, permit applications and modifications, agency correspondence, deviation reports, investigation packages, compliance certifications, and technical evaluations.
• Collect, validate, analyze, organize, retain, and report environmental compliance data; identify trends, communicate risks, and recommend practical solutions.
• Maintain environmental databases, trackers, logs, records, and compliance calendars to ensure obligations are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Investigate, document, and support resolution of environmental incidents, deviations, abnormal operating conditions, complaints, root causes, corrective actions, and preventive measures.
• Coordinate with operations, maintenance, engineering, facility leadership, environmental staff, contractors, consultants, laboratories, vendors, and agency personnel to support compliance activities and issue resolution.
• Support agency inspections, information requests, meetings, field visits, stack testing, sampling events, consultant activities, and follow-up actions.
• Review operational changes, maintenance activities, capital projects, and process modifications for environmental impacts, compliance risks, and permitting implications.
• Develop and update environmental procedures, inspection programs, training materials, internal communications, compliance tracking tools, and management systems.
• Provide technical guidance, training, and operational support to production, maintenance, engineering, and contractor personnel.
• Support emergency response, complaint response, abnormal operating condition evaluations, and regulatory follow-up as needed.
• Perform other related environmental compliance duties as assigned.

Skills

Environmental compliance

Regulatory reporting

Data analysis

Technical writing

Agency communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or environmental science

Tools

Microsoft Office

Environmental databases

Compliance tracking tools

Document control

Job description

Embedded at the EES Coke Operations in River Rouge, MI, this Environmental Engineer supports day-to-day and long-term environmental compliance for a heavy industrial coke facility. The role manages programs, inspections, regulatory reporting, permits, data management, investigations, corrective actions, and agency interaction to ensure adherence and safe operations.

Collaborate with operations, maintenance, engineering, environmental staff, and contractors to identify issues, implement practical