What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Engineer or Specialist position at Koch?
Your Job
Koch Fertilizer Dodge City, LLC is seeking an Environmental Engineer or Specialist to join our Dodge City team. This role is ideal for someone who is interested in environmental compliance, regulations, and how they apply within a manufacturing environment. In this role, you will build capability to interpret environmental regulations, support compliance programs, and help ensure our facility operates safely, responsibly, and legally. You will work alongside experienced team members to analyze requirements, identify opportunities for improvement, and contribute to solutions that strengthen site performance.
Our Team
The Dodge City Environmental team partners closely with operations, maintenance, and other site capabilities to integrate environmental compliance into daily operations. We focus on building long-term, sustainable systems that support safe, reliable plant performance.
What You Will Do
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Fertilizer delivers a full line of fertilizers designed to boost crop performance and help growers reach their yields. Our team also brings logistical expertise and a wide range of invaluable services, from delivered freight and logistics capabilities to online shipment tracking.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Koch Fertilizer Dodge City, LLC is seeking an Environmental Engineer or Specialist to join our Dodge City team. This role is ideal for someone who is interested in environmental compliance, regulations, and how they apply within a manufacturing environment. In this role, you will build capability to interpret environmental regulations, support compliance programs, and help ensure our facility operates safely, responsibly, and legally. You will work alongside experienced team members to analyze requirements, identify opportunities for improvement, and contribute to solutions that strengthen site performance.
Our Team
The Dodge City Environmental team partners closely with operations, maintenance, and other site capabilities to integrate environmental compliance into daily operations. We focus on building long-term, sustainable systems that support safe, reliable plant performance.
What You Will Do
- Interpret and apply complex federal and state environmental regulations across site operations.
- Prepare and submit required regulatory reports in multiple disciplines.
- Oversee recurring compliance monitoring and inspections.
- Develop an understanding of plant processes, associated risks, and their impact on environmental performance.
- Maintain and improve environmental management systems to ensure regulatory compliance across areas such as Air Permitting, CEMS, Stack Testing, Waste, Remediation, and more; specific duties vary by experience and plant needs.
- Serve as the environmental representative on cross-functional site teams, providing environmental input into projects, changes, and operational decisions.
- Participate in incident review teams, evaluate environmental impacts, support root cause analysis, and track corrective action plans.
- Develop and deliver environmental training programs to strengthen compliance understanding and build site-wide capability.
- Experience working in a regulated operations or manufacturing environment with exposure to compliance programs, reporting, or standards; OR completion of a degree or coursework in Environmental, Engineering, Safety, or related field
- Ability to analyze information and apply requirements to real-world situations
- Experience using Excel or similar tools for data tracking and reporting
- Degree or coursework in Environmental Science, Engineering, Safety, or a related field
- Demonstrated ability to identify improvements and challenge existing processes
- Interest in growing into a leadership role over time
- Experience in fertilizer, chemical, ammonia, or related manufacturing environments.
- Familiarity with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) regulations
- Hands-on experience with air permitting and Title V Compliance Demonstration and Deviation Reporting
- Experience with complex environmental reporting, including Emissions Inventory and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
- Experience with waste management programs including inspections, scheduling shipments, and regulatory documentation
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch Ag & Energy Solutions company, Koch Fertilizer delivers a full line of fertilizers designed to boost crop performance and help growers reach their yields. Our team also brings logistical expertise and a wide range of invaluable services, from delivered freight and logistics capabilities to online shipment tracking.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).