What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Specialist position at Nucor?
Job Title: Environmental Specialist
Job Details
Division: Nucor Insulated Panel Group
Location: Sheridan, Arkansas
Basic Job Functions:
Nucor Insulated Panel Group (NIPG), a proud Nucor product group, is one of North America’s largest and most experienced manufacturers of Insulated Metal Panels. With 8 locations throughout the United States and 1 location in Canada. This role would be supporting the NIPG locations in Sheridan, Arkansas, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Brigham City, Utah.
Environmental Specialists at Nucor Insulated Panel Group provide leadership in all environmental matters including permitting, maintenance, recording keeping, and auditing of environmental compliance programs. Additional duties include taking a lead role in plant-wide environmental project management, training, and community outreach.
- Leadership role in promoting Nucor’s mission ensuring that safety is instilled as a value with a strong focus on environmental stewardship.
- Assist multiple locations in the division in maintaining compliance with air, water, and waste regulations, tank management, emergency plans, Risk Management Plan, and environmental management system (EMS).
- Ability to work in a team setting or independently on projects.
- Interact with various Federal, State, and Local regulatory agencies on permitting, compliance, and facility inspections.
- Submit required environmental reports to agencies including but not limited to: Air Emissions Inventory, Annual Waste Summary, Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), discharge monitoring reports (DMRs).
- Represent Nucor Insulated Panel Group at Corporate and Nucor Insulated Panel Group EHS meetings, training sessions, and plant audits.
- Track and submit division metrics as related to corporate requirements/President’s Environmental award statistics.
Safety is the most important part of all jobs within Nucor; therefore, candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, practices, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent.
- Two years of environmental compliance experience
- Strong organizational skills and written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook.
- Valid driver’s license
- Willing and able to travel in the US and internationally up to 50% of the time.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US (Nucor will not sponsor the need for a visa now or in the future).
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4-year degree in environmental, health, safety or related technical field.
- Solid understanding of environmental permitting and serve as a liaison for State and Federal environmental agencies
- 3 years of environmental compliance experience in a manufacturing field
Ability and desire to promote into a senior level environmental role at other Nucor divisions
Why Nucor?
When you join Nucor, America’s largest steel manufacturer and recycler, you’ll help create a variety of steel products that become so much more, for so many people. And you won’t do it alone. Our supportive culture builds each other up, values family, relationships, and puts safety above anything else. With the freedom to take your ideas to the next level, there’s no end to what you can achieve. This is your chance to build lifelong career, give back to your community, make the world a better place – and BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER.
Job Security – Benefits – Bonus Programs
With performance-based compensation, profit sharing, and a no-layoff practice, we take care of our teammates who design, engineer, fabricate, and support the products that define our company.
Nucor is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – M/F/Disabled/Vets – and a drug – free workplace