What's the Role?

The Shell USA Deer Park team is seeking an Environmental Engineer to support regulatory and compliance environmental support to Shell Deer Park. This position will support the unit environmental engineers in delivering regulatory and company environmental training and applies requirements across multiple process units. This position educates and partners with plant personnel, community members, and regulators to create and implement innovative solutions to achieve extraordinary environmental performance.

The Environmental Engineer has a site-wide programmatic scope and influences Shell personnel, contractors and incident investigation teams. There are no direct reports, and minimal discretionary spend authority associated with the position. The Environmental Engineer provides air, water and waste regulatory support for compliance and permitting, program development, agency interface and reporting for Shell Deer Park. This position helps deploy site environmental compliance processes and actively engages all levels of the workforce across the Operations, Maintenance, and projects teams to enable continuous improvement.

Accountabilities:

• Provide hands-on environmental support to plant personnel across the Deer Park site including regulatory and Shell Group standards
• Monitor site performance against permit and other regulatory requirements and identify opportunities to continuously improve
• Communicate and ensure alignment with process units on permit and compliance requirements
• Be an environmental focal point for environmental guidance, communications, and questions for the operating and maintenance organization
• Prepare agency incident reports, maintenance notifications, periodic reports, and enforcement responses for agency submittal
• Support the environmental department in reviewing and updating departmental databases for completeness and accuracy
• Participate in 24-hour on-call rotation to determine reportable quantity releases and report incidences to appropriate regulatory agencies within required timeframes
• Provide turnaround support by preparing environmental impact statements and ensuring environmental issues are adequately addressed
• Create, develop and implement projects, programs, and assigned initiatives
• Develop and implement operator environmental tools to proactively monitor compliance
• Evaluate environmental incidents, which includes calculations, ranking, and classifying all emission events
• Support preparation and maintenance of agency documents such as air permits, emission reports, incident reports, variance petitions, and other surveys
• Assist in the selection of air pollution control technology for new or modified equipment
• Understand management systems and work with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to deliver programs that fulfill requirements and deliver performance results
• Review, interpret, and clarify regulatory and legal requirements applicable to Deer Park, and takes initiative to ensure site programs comply with requirements
• Assist in the delivery of environmental training to address regulatory and Shell Group standards, site environmental policies, programs, and procedures
• Analyze site environmental data and trends, communicates results, and recommend interventions to improve performance
• Conduct field reviews, audits, and investigations
• Respond to agency enforcement actions by providing quality information in a timely manner
• Manage change within assigned process areas in accordance with site and department procedures
• Monitor, track, and update environmental incidences within the site tracking systems
• Implement process unit environmental testing requirements and coordinate all activities related to source testing as required
• Perform assigned air, water, and waste environmental tasks
• Participate in spill, release, and emissions event causal investigations as assigned
• Manage, review, and summarize data associated with internal and external reporting
• Responsible for any environmental tasks that may be assigned to manage environmental department workload and site environmental compliance

Requirements

• Must have legal authorization to work in the USA on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Environmental within a petrochemical or refining manufacturing facility
• Experience in interpreting and implementing environmental regulatory requirements
• Preferred experience with implementing and/or compliance with the following regulations:
  • Benzene Waste Organic National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (BWON)
  • Ethylene Production Maximum Achievable Control Technology (EMACT)
  • Hazardous Organic National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (HON)
  • Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (MON)
• Experience with complying with, obtaining or renewing operating permits (ie. Clean Air Act (CAA), Prevention Significant Deterioration (PSD), Texas New Source Review (NSR), Texas Permit by Rule (PBR), and Title V)
• Experience in directly interfacing with state or federal regulatory agencies
• Must have command knowledge of Excel and Word
• Ability to communicate up and down the line of management
• Preferred experience with the following programs:
  • Sphera Incident Reporting
  • Pi Vision
  • OpsEnvironmental
  • Power Aps
  • Power Bi
  • Sharepoint
  • UTL
  • Intellatrac

The base salary range for this position is $122,000.00 - $182,000.00 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents. Additionally, employees are eligible for disability leave for up to 52 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives. For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays. Additional information on Shell's US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html.

Company description

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world's growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible. We have expertise in among other exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of oil products, chemicals, electric power, renewables and energy solutions.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There's never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you'll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we're nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…

We're creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment processes, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we'll take it from there.

We're closing the gender gap – whether that's through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.

We're striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We're huge advocates for career development. We'll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

Disclaimer

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