What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Subject Matter Expert position at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions?
Who We Are
As the Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor since 2008, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) makes the world safer. With safety and security in the forefront, SRNS develops innovative approaches to deliver on our environmental commitments and nuclear materials challenges; supplies products and services necessary to maintain the nation’s nuclear deterrent; secures nuclear materials to prevent unwanted proliferation; and transforms nuclear materials into assets and stable wasteforms. The SRNS workforce is highly capable, engaged, and adaptable to meet existing and expanding missions. SRNS employees apply superior expertise and innovative solutions to complex and challenging national and global issues. We have the knowledge to address a range of national and international nuclear issues. We make the world safer – and you can, too.
Job Family
Environmental
Discipline
Environmental / Regulatory Compliance Engineering
Career Level
P3
Salary Range
$80,160 - $112,416
Note for Salary
This is the range within which SRNS expects the majority of qualified candidates would enter this role if offered. Actual offers may be more or less than the amounts shown depending on candidate’s qualifications, experience, internal equity, and other factors.
Job Family Description
Environmental personnel monitor and assess environmental conditions to ensure compliance with regulations and internal requirements, promote environmental protection, and minimize environmental impacts from new projects and ongoing operations. They conduct environmental impact assessments, collect and analyze data related to air, water and soil quality, and recommend strategies to minimize environmental impact. They develop environmental management plans, and study contaminated sites.
Discipline Description
Environmental/Regulatory Compliance Engineers provide engineering support for environmental systems in operating facilities and across the entire site. They identify system concepts and determine system functional and technical requirements, conduct process analyses, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot and resolve problems and ensure operation within technical, regulatory and safety basis requirements. They propose and develop process/system improvements including equipment upgrades, and plant modifications, prepare modification input documents, provides technical input (e.g., for procedure development), approve work packages, and advise operations/maintenance/project management for optimizing day-to-day operations. They may conduct major technical alternative studies, CERCLA/RCRA studies. Environmental/regulatory compliance engineers develop complex environmental systems, applications, and procedures, conduct investigations, and prepare remediation work plans and reports for complex projects. They conduct analyses or tests required for complex technical problems. They also review and analyze environmental documentation issued by regulatory agencies, evaluate proposed regulations to determine financial, industrial, public, and environmental impact, and work with external regulators to resolve compliance issues.
Some Typical Duties & Responsibilities Include
Environmental/Regulatory Compliance Engineers provide engineering support for environmental systems in operating facilities and across the entire site. They identify system concepts and determine system functional and technical requirements, conduct process analyses, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot and resolve problems and ensure operation within technical, regulatory and safety basis requirements. They propose and develop process/system improvements including equipment upgrades, and plant modifications, prepare modification input documents, provides technical input (e.g., for procedure development), approve work packages, and advise operations/maintenance/project management for optimizing day-to-day operations. They may conduct major technical alternative studies, CERCLA/RCRA studies.
Environmental/regulatory compliance engineers develop complex environmental systems, applications, and procedures, conduct investigations, and prepare remediation work plans and reports for complex projects. They conduct analyses or tests required for complex technical problems. They also review and analyze environmental documentation issued by regulatory agencies, evaluate proposed regulations to determine financial, industrial, public, and environmental impact, and work with external regulators to resolve compliance issues.
Required Qualifications
Equivalencies to experience and education requirements will be considered.
RCRA, Hazardous Waste, Environmental Permitting, Solid Waste, Environmental Compliance, PCBs, Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), wastewater treatment, stormwater
Career Band
Professional
Career Band Description
Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own field/discipline, solving complex problems with minimal guidance and oversight.
Security Clearance Information
SRNS is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug & alcohol test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, criminal records, and employment history, and education verifications. Positions with SRNS may require applicants to obtain and maintain a DOE L or Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Factors such as pre-employment background review results, dual citizenship status, and unpaid and/or unfiled taxes may impact your ability to obtain a security clearance. This list of factors is not exhaustive; pre-employment information and security clearance requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Clearance Required To Perform Job
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What We Offer
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) Benefits team is constantly assessing trends in the benefits area to provide the best possible services to our workforce. We ensure high quality outcomes of each service provider by consistent monitoring and oversight for positive results. We also negotiate cost effective premiums that will meet the needs of our evolving workforce. Your SRNS Health & Welfare benefits provide peace of mind and financial protection for you and your family. Some of the Benefits offered to full service employees include:
Standards of Excellence
The SRNS Vision States That We Will "be The Standard Of Excellence In Nuclear Materials Management By Delivering Knowledge, Innovation And Experience." This Is Underpinned By The Recognition That Everything We Do Relies On Our Employees And How They Demonstrate The SRNS Standards Of Excellence Every Day. Built On The Foundation Of Safety And Security, Each Employee Is Expected To
Model Excellence by demonstrating the highest standards and values in work and promoting them within the organization and to the customer.
Deliver Results by meeting customer expectations to ensure objectives, goals and deadlines are met while being good stewards of resources.
Energize and Recognize Teams through growing organizational strength and recognizing continued excellence.
Build Relationships by developing relationships with coworkers and customers to foster a respectful workplace.
Shape the Future by creating a diverse, innovative and integrated workforce that fosters mission success and company growth.
Note
SRNS is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. SRNS utilizes the Disabled Veteran Enhancement Opportunities program which is aimed at improving employment opportunities for disabled veterans at the Savannah River Site (SRS). SRNS is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, you may contact us by phone at 803-952-8207, or by e-mail at hrrecruiting@srs.gov.
27-May-2026
As the Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor since 2008, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) makes the world safer. With safety and security in the forefront, SRNS develops innovative approaches to deliver on our environmental commitments and nuclear materials challenges; supplies products and services necessary to maintain the nation’s nuclear deterrent; secures nuclear materials to prevent unwanted proliferation; and transforms nuclear materials into assets and stable wasteforms. The SRNS workforce is highly capable, engaged, and adaptable to meet existing and expanding missions. SRNS employees apply superior expertise and innovative solutions to complex and challenging national and global issues. We have the knowledge to address a range of national and international nuclear issues. We make the world safer – and you can, too.
Job Family
Environmental
Discipline
Environmental / Regulatory Compliance Engineering
Career Level
P3
Salary Range
$80,160 - $112,416
Note for Salary
This is the range within which SRNS expects the majority of qualified candidates would enter this role if offered. Actual offers may be more or less than the amounts shown depending on candidate’s qualifications, experience, internal equity, and other factors.
Job Family Description
Environmental personnel monitor and assess environmental conditions to ensure compliance with regulations and internal requirements, promote environmental protection, and minimize environmental impacts from new projects and ongoing operations. They conduct environmental impact assessments, collect and analyze data related to air, water and soil quality, and recommend strategies to minimize environmental impact. They develop environmental management plans, and study contaminated sites.
Discipline Description
Environmental/Regulatory Compliance Engineers provide engineering support for environmental systems in operating facilities and across the entire site. They identify system concepts and determine system functional and technical requirements, conduct process analyses, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot and resolve problems and ensure operation within technical, regulatory and safety basis requirements. They propose and develop process/system improvements including equipment upgrades, and plant modifications, prepare modification input documents, provides technical input (e.g., for procedure development), approve work packages, and advise operations/maintenance/project management for optimizing day-to-day operations. They may conduct major technical alternative studies, CERCLA/RCRA studies. Environmental/regulatory compliance engineers develop complex environmental systems, applications, and procedures, conduct investigations, and prepare remediation work plans and reports for complex projects. They conduct analyses or tests required for complex technical problems. They also review and analyze environmental documentation issued by regulatory agencies, evaluate proposed regulations to determine financial, industrial, public, and environmental impact, and work with external regulators to resolve compliance issues.
Some Typical Duties & Responsibilities Include
Environmental/Regulatory Compliance Engineers provide engineering support for environmental systems in operating facilities and across the entire site. They identify system concepts and determine system functional and technical requirements, conduct process analyses, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot and resolve problems and ensure operation within technical, regulatory and safety basis requirements. They propose and develop process/system improvements including equipment upgrades, and plant modifications, prepare modification input documents, provides technical input (e.g., for procedure development), approve work packages, and advise operations/maintenance/project management for optimizing day-to-day operations. They may conduct major technical alternative studies, CERCLA/RCRA studies.
Environmental/regulatory compliance engineers develop complex environmental systems, applications, and procedures, conduct investigations, and prepare remediation work plans and reports for complex projects. They conduct analyses or tests required for complex technical problems. They also review and analyze environmental documentation issued by regulatory agencies, evaluate proposed regulations to determine financial, industrial, public, and environmental impact, and work with external regulators to resolve compliance issues.
Required Qualifications
Equivalencies to experience and education requirements will be considered.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field plus at least five years of experience (YOE) in a relevant role, OR Master's degree in relevant field plus at least two years of experience (YOE), OR Doctoral degree in relevant field
- Equivalencies to experience and education requirements will be considered
RCRA, Hazardous Waste, Environmental Permitting, Solid Waste, Environmental Compliance, PCBs, Clean Water Act (CWA), Safe Drinking Water Act, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), wastewater treatment, stormwater
Career Band
Professional
Career Band Description
- Roles in this band apply the knowledge in area of expertise to analyze information; design and develop new approaches, methodologies and processes; and, provide professional advice and guidance to others in accordance with professional quality standards
- Applies a theoretical knowledge-base to work to achieve goals through own work
- Characterized by specific functional expertise typically gained through formal education
- May provide guidance to others as a project manager using technical expertise
Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own field/discipline, solving complex problems with minimal guidance and oversight.
Security Clearance Information
SRNS is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug & alcohol test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, criminal records, and employment history, and education verifications. Positions with SRNS may require applicants to obtain and maintain a DOE L or Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Factors such as pre-employment background review results, dual citizenship status, and unpaid and/or unfiled taxes may impact your ability to obtain a security clearance. This list of factors is not exhaustive; pre-employment information and security clearance requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Clearance Required To Perform Job
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What We Offer
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) Benefits team is constantly assessing trends in the benefits area to provide the best possible services to our workforce. We ensure high quality outcomes of each service provider by consistent monitoring and oversight for positive results. We also negotiate cost effective premiums that will meet the needs of our evolving workforce. Your SRNS Health & Welfare benefits provide peace of mind and financial protection for you and your family. Some of the Benefits offered to full service employees include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
- Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
- Employer paid life insurance with buy up options
- Employer paid Short Term and Long Term Disability
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Various wellness programs
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Discounts and other supplemental benefits
Standards of Excellence
The SRNS Vision States That We Will "be The Standard Of Excellence In Nuclear Materials Management By Delivering Knowledge, Innovation And Experience." This Is Underpinned By The Recognition That Everything We Do Relies On Our Employees And How They Demonstrate The SRNS Standards Of Excellence Every Day. Built On The Foundation Of Safety And Security, Each Employee Is Expected To
Model Excellence by demonstrating the highest standards and values in work and promoting them within the organization and to the customer.
Deliver Results by meeting customer expectations to ensure objectives, goals and deadlines are met while being good stewards of resources.
Energize and Recognize Teams through growing organizational strength and recognizing continued excellence.
Build Relationships by developing relationships with coworkers and customers to foster a respectful workplace.
Shape the Future by creating a diverse, innovative and integrated workforce that fosters mission success and company growth.
Note
SRNS is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. SRNS utilizes the Disabled Veteran Enhancement Opportunities program which is aimed at improving employment opportunities for disabled veterans at the Savannah River Site (SRS). SRNS is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, you may contact us by phone at 803-952-8207, or by e-mail at hrrecruiting@srs.gov.
27-May-2026
Salary : $80,160 - $112,416