Engineer, Principal Environmental

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare.

Located in La Porte, TX, the role of Principal Environmental Engineer will be responsible for ensuring compliance with waste management regulations for a petrochemical manufacturing facility and ensuring that waste management best practices are implemented to support the needs of the manufacturing production units while enhancing value and efficiency to waste management practices.

A Day in the Life

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all EPA and TCEQ hazardous and non-hazardous waste regulations.
• Maintain and improve the management systems to ensure the proper classification, storage, transportation, disposal and recycling of waste.
• Ensure waste streams have available approved disposal outlets and identify alternatives when issues arise with outlets being unable to accept waste.
• Identify opportunities to reduce waste volumes generated, increase reuse or recycling of materials or reclassification of waste.
• Continuously assess and champion opportunities to reduce the site's cost for waste handling, storage, transportation and disposal.
• Review new technologies to handle and manage waste to ensure they are safe, compliant and add value.
• Contribute to or submit regulatory reports such as Annual Waste Summary, Toxic Release Inventory, Benzene Waste NESHAPS.
• Prepare and submit the waste portion of LYB Sustainability report for site.
• Develop relationships with key suppliers and vendors of waste management equipment and services to ensure competitive pricing and outstanding customer service is maintained.
• Provide guidance for spill cleanup activities and associated remediation efforts.
• Manage any soil and groundwater remediation efforts at the site.
• Partner with Environmental Unit Contacts (EUC) to identify waste management needs to support production units.
• Responsible for interaction with TCEQ or EPA personnel during agency investigations or inquiries related to waste or remediation issues.
• Manage consultants or contractors as needed for outsourced projects.
• Maintain robust electronic record keeping system that provides clear documentation of waste shipments including manifests, volumes and costs.
• Develop annual budget for waste disposal, transportation and management activities at the site.
• Communicate regulatory requirements and compliance risks to unit personnel.
• Track waste spending, review invoices for accuracy and approve invoices for payment.
• Develop and maintain process to review capital projects and long range capital spending plan to identify potential impact to waste generation or management.
• Help develop the waste management matrix for major unit outages and turnarounds and supply budget estimates for turnaround for waste expense.
• Support the planning and procurement of temporary equipment needed for managing waste during turnarounds and major unit outages.
• Provide training, as needed, related to waste specific regulatory requirements.
• Serve in On-Call rotation for environmental release reporting.
• Represent the site in trade organizations and best practice groups.
• Identify, initiate and develop projects that improve environmental performance.
• Serve as backup to Environmental Unit Contact as needed by supporting specific areas of the plant in daily operations and compliance activities.
• Occasionally present HSE topics to new employees and others as needed.

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