Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Health, Safety, Security, and Environment

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

August 2, 2024

Business unit:

Downstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Position Purpose

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
• Certifications Required:  None specified

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.

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