Environmental Compliance Coordinator
*Local to Richmond, VA only please
*This position will be 50/50 working from an office or in the field
Description:
- Ensures company compliance with environmental, chemical, waste management, and permit regulations at various locations within driving distance from downtown Richmond, associated with the client’s Electric Distribution operational teams.
- Share responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of work sites, to comply with regulatory and company Environmental, Health and Safety standards and procedures.
- Communicate and prepare reports for submittal internally, externally, to governmental agencies and customers.
- Support the client’s employees and other contracted staff, inspect, or assess, and provide recommendations regarding environmental compliance issues to personnel responsible for compliance tasks and management.
- Provide environmental training to site personnel in handling of chemicals and waste materials, spill prevention, erosion, and sediment control and other environmental compliance topics and requirements.
- The environmental team is looking to bring on a contractor to help build out and manage a database of all work orders that have an environmental root cause (ie oil leaks).
- This contractor would pull together pertinent information for job requests, coordinate with District Office leadership for schedules on repairs to transformers in the field and help coordinate environmental cleanups from 3rd party contractors.
Responsibilities:
- Environmental Database creation (will decide platform but think of a really big excel sheet)
- Coordinate with supervision on timelines for repairs to better manage the environmental cleanup
- Complete internal spill reports and associated documentation
- If applicable, report spills to VADEQ/NRC
- Attend inspection program trainings
- Present data on environmental response to contractors
- If needed go to a site that has an oil spill and assess needs of materials used to contain leaks
- Inspect transformers at Data Centers
- Other ECC job duties as necessary (storm response, inspections)
- Coordination/Communicate with vendors on environmental issues identified during padmount transformer inspections.
- Internal/external spill reporting.
- Coordinate and at times oversee more complex environmental cleanups (oil spills).
- Attend Inspection Program Rollout meetings.
- Attend training and help educate inspectors on an as needed basis.
- Create and maintain a database of environmental work requests.
- Coordinate with the clients’ Energy Distribution Supervisors on timelines for transformer replacements/cleanups.
- Will conduct Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Inspections at Data Centers in Northern VA (less than 10% of the role).
- Assist other ECCs with inspections and regular environmental duties at a District Office level.
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Environmental Field Experience
- Oil/spill response a major plus
- Database management experience, related to building databases, integrations
Preferred Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Experience with an electric utility
- Experience with conducting project inspections
- Experience working within a team
Soft Skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and in field environments, as well as in a team setting, including external vendors.
- Organizational skills and time management skills.
- Strong leadership and ability to problem solve.
- Strong technological skill set.
- Advanced excel experience
Education:
- 4yr degree, Bachelors in an Environmental discipline
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