Air Compliance Specialist

Job Details
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Business Unit: Disposals
Reports to: Sr Director – Regulatory Compliance
Travel Requirement: Yes

JOB DESCRIPTION

Select Water is seeking an Air Compliance Specialist to support all business units and operating areas. This role is pivotal in managing environmental compliance for a diverse portfolio, including water recycling facilities, gathering systems, disposal wells (SWD), pipelines, landfills, treating plants, and solids handling facilities. You will be the technical lead in ensuring our operations meet Select’s sustainability goals and state/federal regulatory requirements.

The essential job functions include, but are not limited to

• Permitting & Applicability: Screen company-wide projects to determine air permit or registration requirements. Navigate complex regulations across TX (TCEQ), NM (NMED), CO (CDPHE/ECMC), OK, LA, MT, ND, OH, PA, and WV.
• Authorizations: Prepare and submit New Source Review (NSR), Title V, and Minor Source applications. Manage Permits by Rule (PBR) specifically for SWD and water recycling equipment.
• Emissions Modeling: Utilize industry-standard software including ProMax, E&P TANKS, and AP-42 emission factors.
• Sampling Coordination: Manage pressurized water sampling programs to ensure accurate data for emissions inventory calculations.
• GHG & Methane Management: Lead the annual Subpart W Greenhouse Gas reporting. Assist in developing and implementing Methane Intensity reduction strategies.
• Regulatory Programs (Quad O & Engines): Implement and oversee compliance for NSPS OOOOa/b/c, NSPS JJJJ, and NESHAP ZZZZ (RICE).
• LDAR Oversight: Manage Leak Detection and Repair programs, including scheduling Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) surveys and tracking repairs to closure.
• Combustion Efficiency: Calculate and verify destruction efficiency for flares, thermal oxidizers, and reciprocating engines.
• Reporting: Ensure timely submission of Annual Emissions Inventories (AEI), Semi-Annual Monitoring Reports (SAMR), and specific landfill/waste reports (Subpart WWW/SSS).
• Rulemakings: Ability to provide input to company representatives/lobbyists/trade organizations on air permitting and regulatory changes.

Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

• Minimum of four (4) years of relevant industry or consulting experience with a bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, or another related field; OR
• Agency Proficiency: Demonstrated mastery in the interpretation and applications of EPA, TCEQ (Texas), NMED (New Mexico), and CDPHE/ECMC (Colorado) air quality regulations. Candidates must demonstrate the regulatory “agility” to expand this proficiency to other states (specifically OK, LA, MT, ND, OH, PA and WV) as business operations evolve.
• The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• The ability to work within a collaborative team environment, with demonstrated personal drive and initiative to achieve goals.
• Interpersonal communication skills are required to interface will all affected teams, personnel, and vendors.
• Ability to work self-sufficiently given direction and resources.
• Ability to think critically, solve problems independently and exercise judgement and common sense.
• Intermediate level desktop computer skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

Select Values and Guiding Principles

• W: Working Safe
• A: Accountability
• T: Teamwork
• E: Excellence
• R: Respect

Compensation Information
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Top Tier Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, coverage in addition to life and disability insurance plans.
• Paid Vacation Days and Paid Holidays.
• Retirement and Savings (401K) Plan.

Physical Demands and Exposures

• Requires a high degree of concentration.
• Must be willing to travel to remote locations and spend considerable time at field locations as required.
• Position works inside a climate-controlled environment a majority of the time.
• Traditional Monday through Friday, 8 – 5 pm, unless operational tempo and requirements dictate otherwise.
• Ability to individually lift: Maximum 25 lbs.

Select Water Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. It is Select’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any protected class, status, characteristic, or activity. All employment decisions, including decisions regarding recruitment, selection, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, advancement, discipline, discharge, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment are made without regard to any lawfully protected class, status, characteristic, or activity.

Select Water Solutions requires all employees whose jobs may involve environmental compliance to understand and comply with the U.S. Environmental Protections Agency’s Clean Air Act that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. A copy of the Clean Air Act can be provided to you upon request from Human Resources.

Select Water Solutions participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Select is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Select only uses E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.