Manager Environmental Protection

1 month ago

Lake Charles, United States Merrimac International Full time

Our Client

CITGO is a US-based refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and other industrial products headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company owns three large and complex refineries in the United States and is the 5th largest refiner in the country. The company has over 3,400 employees and also owns and operates terminals, pipelines, and lubricant blending and packing plants. CITGO also has over 4,900 independently owned branded retail outlets across America.


The Role

The Manager Environmental Protection manages the Environmental Services Department to provide economic and environmentally sound technical direction for the Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex (LCMC) compliance with environmental laws and regulations, with special focus on designing, implementing and improving environmental compliance systems. Environmental compliance is an increasingly valuable tool to foster community relations, employee satisfaction, environmental improvements and continuing growth in Lake Charles.


This position works directly with Senior Management and provides primary guidance to Operations, Leadership and Engineering Departments in establishing goals and objectives in the above focus areas.


This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Provide vision, strategy and clear direction to achieve environmental compliance and improved environmental management systems
  • Direct the work of section supervisors and department personnel on all related short- and long-term action plans
  • Establish and manage operating budgets
  • Manage all department personnel activities: hiring, training, developing, assessing performance and compensation
  • Facilitate interactions with environmental departments at other CITGO refineries and Corporate Headquarters
  • Actively participate in local and state industrial environmental committees that develop and facilitate improvements to environmental regulations
  • Interact with local and state environmental agencies to improve agencies understanding of LCMC operations and environmental compliance


Lines of Reporting

The Manager Environmental Protection will report to the Manager Health, Safety, Security & Environmental at CITGO, Lake Charles.

The Manager Environmental Protection will oversee 15 direct reports.


Key Accountabilities

  • Manage the work systems and processes that ensure day-to-day environmental compliance and stewardship with all applicable regulations and operating permits for LCMC, report to management on key performance indicators and corporate compliance measures
  • For all media (air water and waste), develop and implement permit renewal strategies and plans including remediation activities, allocate resources and manage the work as necessary for timely receipt of required permits for capital projects and other operating changes that ensure compliance, operating flexibility and continued refinery expansion
  • Direct development, implementation, utilization and improvement of environmental management systems. The environmental management systems include (a) program management (i.e., commitment and leadership, objectives and accountability, and structure/oversight); (b) identification and evaluation (i.e., regulatory analysis, training and development, and administrative controls); (c) prevention and control (i.e., procedures and practices, considerations included in design and construction process, emergency preparedness/response and community awareness, incident reporting and investigation, and (d) reports and recordkeeping
  • Manage the activities to identify, explain and communicate all environmental compliance requirements to all employees and contractors whose work could affect LCMC’s ability to meet those requirements
  • Provide strategy and manage LCMC activities in support of corporate initiatives e.g., EPA New Source Review (NSR)
  • Direct short- and long-term environmental performance programs, including real time monitoring systems (e.g., LDAR and performance audits) and improvement activities
  • Develop strategies and direct resources to manage local environmental issues: Estuary studies, closure of waste management facilities, groundwater monitoring, SIP requirements, environmental incident reporting and interactions with local, state and federal environmental agencies
  • Administer and direct department personnel management activities, technical, supervisory, hourly and management training, personnel rotation and career planning and salary and bonus planning


Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications for the position:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies, Environmental Engineering or other technical degree required
  • At least 10 years of environmental services related experience in refinery, petrochemical or chemical plant
  • At least 5 years of supervisory experience
  • Extensive knowledge of all environmental regulations to ensure compliance in all activities, projects and unit operations
  • Extensive understanding of refinery operations and applicable environmental regulations
  • Ability to apply organizational management and technical skills to direct environmental services area of responsibility
  • Able to develop systems with improvement plans, supporting standards, best practices, and procedures that contribute to continuous environmental compliance improvement
  • Can anticipate issues and proactively respond to issues that impact strategic direction
  • Proven ability to work with and keep senior management informed on status of environmental compliance and goals, objectives and plans for continuous improvement; Work with Operations/MLT and environmental agencies to achieve continuous environmental compliance improvements and maximum operations flexibility
  • Act assertively to protect assets of the company in situations that involve significant environmental compliance risk.
  • Skilled at working with environmental agencies and the public
  • Ability to communicate the company vision and inspire department to achieve corresponding objectives
  • Experience delegating, building teams and eliminating barriers to gain commitment on environmental compliance improvements
  • Ability to set leadership standards; able to develop and challenge others to pursue self-improvement
  • Maintain a working relationship and knowledge of industry associations (API, NPRA, LMOGA, etc.) to enable utilization of these groups to support corporate initiatives and interests
  • Excellent attention to detail and a result-oriented mindset
  • Must be able to respond effectively to demands of a highly visible and varied workload, tight deadlines and changing job priorities
  • Dedicated and collaborative team-player; able to thrive in a fast-paced, informal, team-focused environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and stellar presentation skills; able to interact effectively across all levels of an organization
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Superior work ethic and integrity

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