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Position Summary: The Environmental Site Leader is responsible for leading the environmental function for the AdvanSix Hopewell, Virginia manufacturing site, a large chemical manufacturing facility with complex air, water, waste, emergency planning, and environmental management system obligations. This role provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for environmental compliance, permitting, regulatory engagement, environmental risk management, and continuous improvement across the site.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Environmental Site Leader provides overall leadership for the site’s environmental programs, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local requirements while supporting safe, reliable manufacturing operations. This role leads environmental strategy, regulatory engagement, team development, capital project support, and continuous improvement across the Hopewell site.

• Lead site environmental compliance and permitting programs, including Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, EPCRA, CERCLA, SPCC/FRP, Virginia AST, and other applicable state and local requirements.
• Provide leadership for major source air compliance and permitting, including Title V, NSR, emissions reporting, MACT, stack testing, LDAR, and CEMS-related requirements.
• Oversee water compliance programs, including VPDES, industrial pretreatment, stormwater, nutrient discharge requirements, monitoring, reporting, permit strategy, and compliance plans.
• Lead waste management and emergency planning programs, including RCRA waste, waste minimization, contingency planning, contractor oversight, TRI, Tier II, release reporting, and regulatory notifications.
• Manage SPCC, FRP, EPA/USCG oil planning, Virginia aboveground storage tank, and oil discharge control plan compliance obligations.
• Lead regulatory agency engagement, including inspections, negotiations, enforcement response, compliance strategy, and communication of emerging requirements.
• Lead and develop the environmental team, including air, water, waste, LDAR/CEMS data, and environmental management systems resources.
• Manage the environmental department budget, consultants, contractors, sampling, monitoring, reporting, staffing, and compliance project resources.
• Serve on the Hopewell site leadership team and advise site leadership on environmental risks, priorities, regulatory developments, and strategic decisions.
• Maintain compliance assurance routines, internal audit processes, corrective and preventive actions, performance metrics, and management review materials.
• Review capital projects, process changes, management of change activities, and maintenance projects for environmental permitting and compliance impacts.
• Support environmental aspects of emergency response, incident investigation, corrective action tracking, lessons learned, and periodic after-hours on-call coverage.
• Implement and maintain applicable Responsible Care, RC14001, or similar environmental management system elements and continual improvement processes.
• Represent the site in selected industry, trade association, community, or regulatory forums related to environmental policy and manufacturing requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 15 years of environmental compliance, permitting, or environmental program management experience, including multi-media environmental compliance experience at an industrial facility.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience supporting industrial or chemical manufacturing operations.
• Experience managing or leading environmental professionals, technical teams, consultants, or contractors.
• Experience interacting with regulatory agencies on permitting, inspections, compliance matters, or enforcement-related activities.

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of federal and Virginia environmental regulations, including air, water, waste, emergency planning, SPCC/FRP, Virginia AST, and Virginia DEQ programs.
• Experience with major source air compliance and permitting, including Title V, NSR, emissions reporting, MACT, stack testing, LDAR, and CEMS-related systems.
• Experience with water compliance programs, including VPDES, pretreatment, stormwater, nutrient requirements, discharge monitoring, and wastewater treatment operations.
• Experience with RCRA hazardous waste management, EPCRA/CERCLA reporting, release notifications, emergency planning, and related agency follow-up.
• Understanding of RC14001, Responsible Care, ISO 14001, or similar management systems, including audits, corrective action, management review, and continual improvement.
• Ability to interpret complex regulations, permits, technical documents, and guidance and translate them into practical site compliance requirements.
• Proven ability to lead and develop technical staff while setting clear priorities, expectations, accountability, and performance objectives.
• Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage priorities, deadlines, budgets, consultants, cross-functional teams, and regulatory correspondence.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and environmental data, document management, or reporting systems is preferred.

The base salary range for this position is $143,800 to $180,000 annually.