Senior Air Quality Engineer

We’re looking for an Air Quality Consultant/Air permit to lead Air Permitting and compliance projects for clients in the power, industrial, manufacturing, commercial, and transportation sectors. This is a high-impact role with a wide variety of project work with Environmental permitting, and strong potential for advancement within our growing Environmental Services team.

About Us

Trinity’s core values represent an assurance of quality, professionalism, and reliability. To us, they are the foundation of our company, the standards against which we constantly judge ourselves. We are focused on client satisfaction, employee growth, and quality assurance.

Trinity Consultants is committed to achieving optimal performance with minimal adverse environmental and societal impacts. Trinity is committed to the health and safety of our employees and the protection of the environment. Effective Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) protection in our business is every employee's responsibility for every activity that is conducted in our workplace or while at client facilities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare air permit application packages and supporting documentation.
• Conduct site assessments and inspections to ensure air quality compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.
• Estimate emissions (including GHGs and emissions during maintenance/start-up/shutdown).
• Manage project scopes, timelines, budgets, and client communication.
• Putting together complex permitting applications for a wide variety of projects
• Support development of multi-media environmental plans, including:
• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs)
• Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans
• EPCRA filings
• Ensure compliance with company and site safety policies.
• Support other environmental compliance work as needed.

EXPERIENCE

The ideal candidate has led complex, difficult engagements (national and/or multiple sites, multiple work streams, large teams, multiple phases or launches, etc.)

Experience includes ability to:

• Identify and deploy resources, assign work, create work plans, ensure quality of work, etc.
• Collaborate with clients to address issues impacting the financial performance of projects.
• Ensure mutually beneficial service delivery by liaising with client contacts and identifying future client issues and opportunities.
• Presentations at industry conferences (local or national)
• Manage project status and relationships and ensure that engagement deliverables meet client expectations within time and budget.
• Monitor actuals to budget realization and margins, re-forecast as appropriate.
• Design and lead effective meetings with senior executives.
• Structure and plan deliverables for multiple phases of complex projects.
• Guide, coach, and mentor employees (3-5 employees).
• Manage performance, including development of written performance reviews and roundtable discussions.

QUALIFICATIONS

Successful candidates must possess at minimum, the following criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s degree a plus).
• 7 years of experience in air permitting/compliance (10 years preferred).
• Prior consulting experience in environmental permitting and compliance
• Solid understanding of the Clean Air Act, including:
• New Source Review (NSR) / Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)
• National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)
• New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)
• Title V and VI permitting
• Familiarity with air dispersion modeling tools (AERMOD, AERSCREEN, CALPUFF, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience or interest in sustainability initiatives is a bonus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).