Senior Environmental Engineer resume example

Provided technical support for wastewater and water treatment facilities at oil and gas refineries and chemical plants. Leadership role in development of new combined project environmental standards across all business lines.

• Mobilized collaboration with over 50 senior subject matter experts to create project standards that work efficiently across all environmental disciplines corporate wide.
• Enhanced idea sharing and cross-departmental collaboration with establishment of new global seminars series - assembling talented group of 25 speakers to deliver engaging informational rotating presentations to 100+ member audiences monthly.
• Recruited three major oil/gas companies to leverage external insights and capitalize on value of shared dollars on sewer inspection research program.
• Provided global technical support, development, and training for Toxchem wastewater emission model.

Focused on providing environmental engineering design support and oversight on global refineries' and chemical plants' large capital projects. Developed sewer inspection technical knowledge and provided wastewater treatment troubleshooting and start up support.

• Teamed with global partners in prioritization of high-risk sewer lines at European refinery considering both civil and environmental risks.
• Initiated effort to close technical knowledge gap on plastic pellet management strategies and technologies working with sites and third party vendors.
• Rapidly and effectively responded to emergency technical wastewater treatment plant shutdown, delivering support, group representation, and subject matter expertise (SME).
• Quickly assimilated and compiled 3-yr research program summary report on wastewater emissions by analyzing scientific data and developing technical recommendations to meet 3 month deadline.

Functioned as environmental regulations/policies SME focused on refinery compliance and reporting.

• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for leak detection and repair (LDAR), benzene waste operations NESHAPS (BWON), and fence line benzene monitoring programs stewarding regulatory compliance, reporting, audits, and program budgets.
• Ensured adherence to new fence line benzene monitoring regulations with development of full-scale pilot - delivering successful results ahead of deadline.
• Led site air emissions reporting and reduced process time by 1/3 via strategic improvements.
• Quickly responded to environmental compliance incidents providing 24/7 coverage to operations while on-call.
• Accurately addressed compliance questions by working closely with legal and corporate regulatory team.

Supported water related environmental engineering practices, research, and projects for global oil and gas refineries and chemical plants.

• Contributed to major multimillion-dollar capital project to design increase in existing system's wastewater load.
• Developed preliminary design specifications for additional wastewater treatment equipment.
• Built detailed water minimization tool for use in sites globally - facilitating cost-effective reductions in water consumption by incorporating detailed cost estimates based on existing corporate standards and vendor quotes.
• Authored comprehensive user guide on best practices for wastewater solids management.
• Delivered recommendations on alternative technologies prior to anticipated increase in whole effluent toxicity limits on heavy metals in Europe.