Environmental Engineer jobs in Richland, WA

Description

  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – Hanford Site, Richland Operations Office and Office of River Protection – Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), Assistant Manager for Safety and Environment (AMSE) - Environmental Compliance Division (ECD), requires technical support. This Technical Consultant will assess and summarize weekly and monthly AMSE environmental compliance oversight activities and provide regulatory support to the ECD to start-up and commission the Direct Feed of Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) facility. The Technical Consultant will work closely with ECD staff to assess and evaluate the contractors’ readiness to support the DFLAW operations through implementation of Air Operating and Dangerous Waste programs and requirements.  Additionally, the consultant supports regulatory inspections at the Hanford site and assist DOE in responding to the regulators’ inspection reports.

Environmental Compliance Division

The consultant shall support the following scope activities:

· Provide strategic solutions to emerging project challenges/risks such as ongoing maturation of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs and interfaces between all the site contractors and AMSE. 

· Complete critical assessments of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs as required to start-up and commission the DFLAW facility.

· Coordinate environmental compliance oversight activities with DOE organizations and disciplines to ensure the necessary interfaces are in place.

· Perform environmental regulatory and programmatic reviews for adequacy and reliability; ensure compliance with established criteria and sound engineering principles; and identify omissions, discrepancies, inadequacies, and nonconformance with approved criteria.

· Utilize project management skills to support ECD’s ability to support the DFLAW integrated operational schedule; implement effective, environmental/regulatory risk mitigation strategies, assess cost and schedule impacts due to environmental non-compliance issues; and evaluate adequacy/implementation of procedures for implementing the approved permit conditions; and identify areas for improvements in the contractors’ permit management, environmental compliance programs, and readiness activities. 

· Support site-wide regulatory inspections, assist DOE in responding to inspection reports for accuracy and compliance with the regulations, interact with the regulators for resolution of inspection issues, and maintain configuration control of a comprehensive inspection log for tracking/closure of regulatory inspection open items.

· Coordinate and perform ECD environmental regulatory oversight activities to achieve readiness and start-up of the DFLAW project. Oversight activities will evaluate the effectiveness of the contractor’s Air Operating and Dangerous Waste Programs and adherence to the permitting conditions.

· Document oversight results within the Integrated Contractor Assurance (iCAS) database. 

· Brief AMSE, AMTF, AMWTP, and AMRC management and Core Requirement owners on oversight results, technical issues, options for resolution, and facilitate decision-making.

· Prepare weekly and monthly reports which document the effectiveness of AMSE’s oversight of the contractors’ environmental compliance and regulatory permitting/inspection activities.

· Maintain regulatory inspection/permit correspondence logs to track, manage and complete ECD actions and activities.

· Follow-up on AMSE issues, adverse conditions, and other areas of concern.

· Participate in weekly coordination meetings.

· Participate on Integrated Project Teams (IPT).

· The contractor shall maintain proficiencies in the following through periodic training:

o HGET

o Radworker II

o Hazwoper 40-hour

o Respiratory

Requirements

Qualifications

· Education – BS/BA degree in engineering or physical science.

· Experience – Ten (10) years of relevant experience.

· Highly experienced in Environmental Compliance, regulatory implementation, and regulatory permitting/field oversight/inspection activities.

· Familiarity level knowledge of Safety and Health, Quality Assurance and Nuclear Safety related controls and requirements.

· Capable of reading, interpreting, and understanding DOE environmental and regulatory oversight/program policies and procedures.

· Capable of reading, interpreting, and understanding DOE program and project management practices, policies, and procedures.

· Expert writing skills, proven experience in supporting programs and projects with analysis, tracking, monitoring, assessment, review and coordination.

· Excellent verbal and communications skills. 

· A knowledge of Microsoft (MS) 365 Word, PowerPoint, TEAMS and/or other MS Office tools.

· Working level knowledge of Hanford Site mission, activities and priorities. (preferred)

· Identification of any conflicts, potential conflicts, or perceived conflicts of interest with any Hanford Site contractors.

· Fully vaccinated against COVID, a granted exception to vaccination for COVID, or able to meet entry and testing requirements for entrance and work in federal buildings.

· Must be a U.S. Citizen