Your Job
Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified professionals to consider for the Environmental Engineer (Water) at our containerboard mill located in Cedar Springs, GA. The Environmental Engineer provides leadership and strategic direction to the mill’s environmental programs; helping align mill and regional water strategies, drive performance improvement through efficient, effective, and sustainable management systems, and ensuring leaders and employees are equipped to manage water responsibilities as well as the mill’s other environmental compliance programs. This position reports to the mill Environmental Manager and creates value for the organization by ensuring compliance is maintained and risk is identified and mitigated. Long-term value is created through the application of our Principle Based Management™ business philosophy.
Our Team
If you are passionate about embracing and leading change, possess strong interpersonal skills and efficiently balance multiple priorities this may be the role for you. You’ll utilize your verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of audiences – from mill operations personnel to business leaders. To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be self-directed, self-motivated, lead by example, possess strong analytical skills, exhibit sound decision-making, and have proficient organizational skills.
The Cedar Springs facility is one of the largest containerboard facilities in the country with three paper machines that make different weights of brown paper & containerboard paper. The Cedar Springs Mill, located in the southwest corner of Georgia is approximately 28 miles from Dothan, Alabama. Dothan is the 8th largest city in the state of Alabama with a population of about 71K. From Dothan, you are only 90 miles from the beautiful Gulf Coast. You can easily drive to 3 capital cities in 3.5 hours or less. You are just 1.5 hours from Tallahassee, FL and Montgomery, AL. Additionally, Dothan has several parks, restaurants and local entertainment activities. To learn more about Georgia-Pacific’s packaging business please visit: www.gppackaging.com and view the video How Paper Is Made!
What You Will Do
- Provide leadership and strategic direction related to the mill’s water programs consistent with our Stewardship & Compliance Principles to achieve our Vision
- Develop and maintain an evergreen point of view of environmental risks, priorities, key issues, and strategic plans as it pertains to the mill and regions water program
- Lead and support the mill’s environmental permitting efforts and track emerging environmental issues
- Fulfill regulatory compliance obligations in a disciplined manner that leverages technology enablers, common processes, and best practices from across the enterprise
- Systematically drive the water environmental programs to be more resilient, effective, consistent, verifiable, and efficient (structured and principled vs. rule based)
- Build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including regulatory agencies
- Coordinate and oversee offsite contractors and consultants, as needed, to maintain environmental obligations
- Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of mill processes and their impact on environmental performance which allows the facility to enable our operations teams to meet their environmental obligations
- Lead compliance with requirements of the various regulations including but not limited to NPDES, SPCC, SARA, Stormwater (SWPP)
- Coordinate compliance monitoring and sampling events
- Routine data/information management/analysis
- Routine report generation and submittal to regulatory agencies
- Develop, maintain, and enhance robust environmental management systems to comply with water/wastewater permits and regulations
- Manage daily operation of an Aerated Stabilization Basin (ASB) wastewater treatment system
- Reviewing and optimizing system performance
- Ensuring treatment chemical inventories are maintained
- Ensuring equipment is in good operable condition and maintained as needed
- In conjunction with the water/wastewater responsibilities this role will also support the air and solid waste programs at the facility as needed
- Participate in water/wastewater training and cross training in air and waste program
- Periodically rotate "on call" to provide environmental support to operations and review daily compliance status outside of regular business hours
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- Manufacturing or industrial experience working in an environmental regulated facility
- Experience in developing and maintaining environmental compliance reports
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Management, Engineering or Natural Sciences (i.e.: Chemistry, Biology)
- Five (5) or more years working in the environmental regulatory arena
- Experience with State of Georgia air, water, and waste environmental regulations
- Experience with Wastewater Treatment Program oversight
- Environmental experience in the pulp and paper industry
- Experience with MACROs in Microsoft Excel (creating graphs and perform advanced calculations in Excel or other software packages)
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.
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