Job Description

Location: Amarillo, Texas
Job Title: Environmental Compliance Scientist
Career Level From:Senior Associate
Career Level To: Specialist

Organization: Environmental Compliance (PX) (51074509)
Job Specialty: ES&H General

What You'll Do

The Pantex Plant is the nation’s primary nuclear weapons manufacturing facility. The site is seeking a qualified applicant to join an accomplished and award-winning Environmental Compliance Department. Candidates must have specialized training, professional experience, and technical writing ability in a combination of several of the following areas of environmental compliance and permitting: solid and hazardous waste, monitoring in environmental media, drinking water, wastewater, natural resources, air quality, petroleum storage tanks, environmental management systems, sustainability, energy management, pollution prevention, and storm water.

Perform duties as a team member in the Environmental Compliance Department; providing specialty job knowledge and experience to support the development of compliance strategies and written reports. Provide team input to ensure strict compliance with permits, Department of Energy (DOE) Orders, and Federal and State regulations associated with sustainability, environmental management systems, pollution prevention, and resource conservation.
Cross train and conduct walk downs with other environmental professionals in the field and across the industrial areas to support final recommendations of a highly technical nature within a range of environmental science specialties.
Employ significant professional experience, education, and specialized training across multiple environmental science disciplines to lead or support other subject matter experts and ensure monitoring, analysis, and recording of monitoring data collected by technical and sampling organizations meet data quality objectives.
Demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office software to support excellence in written and verbal stakeholder communications and reporting.
Assist with nuisance animal responses in the field and across the industrial areas.
Support National Environmental Policy Act review of projects and actions to ensure compliance with Pantex Plant goals, DOE Orders and Policies, and state and federal regulations.
Perform other duties as assigned.

What You Can Expect

Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
Career advancement and professional development programs
Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives

Minimum Job Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in an environmental, science, or engineering related discipline with at least two years of specialized experience. Typical environmental compliance related experience ranges from 4 to 7 years in a combination of several of the following areas of environmental compliance and permitting: solid waste, sustainability, pollution prevention, monitoring in environmental media, drinking water, wastewater, natural resources, air quality, petroleum storage tank, environmental site assessments, storm water, or environmental management systems.
OR a Master of Science degree in an environmental, science, or engineering related discipline with at least one year of specialized environmental compliance experience.

Preferred Job Requirements

Master of Science degree in an environmental, science, or engineering related discipline with at least three years of specialized environmental compliance experience, OR a Bachelor of Science degree in an environmental, science, or engineering related discipline with at least four years of specialized experience. Typical environmental compliance related experience ranges from 7 to 10 years in a combination of several of the following areas of environmental compliance and permitting: solid waste, sustainability, pollution prevention, monitoring in environmental media, drinking water, wastewater, natural resources, air quality, petroleum storage tank, environmental site assessments, storm water, or environmental management systems.

Specialized work experience should include:

Specific compliance and permitting experience working for a regulatory agency or working with a regulatory agency as a regulated entity.
Supporting the development, implementation, and written reporting of compliance data, and leading permit calculations/ applications/ negotiations.
Substantial professional experience in combination of environmental compliance, sustainability, energy conservation, or permitting for large industrial sites.
Organizing, planning, and implementing project management responsibilities.
Coordinating effective oral and written communication with various stakeholder groups, including regulatory agencies.

Why Pantex and Y-12?

You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Pantex and Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.

CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.

CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.

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