Environmental Engineer - Air Quality Permitting and Compliance

What would it feel like to be part of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas? To know your opinion is valued and your voice is heard? Wouldn't you love to work in an atmosphere of transparency, respect, and accountability?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is currently searching for a talented Air Quality Engineer to join our team!

The SEH Environmental Team of scientists and engineers restores balance to our world through their work to protect our land, air and water resources. The type of work you do may be in the field of air quality, environmental assessments, remediation, compliance, planning and permitting. The work of the team varies from transforming polluted land parcels into community assets, restoring damaged waterways, reimagining solid waste management strategies or assisting our clients through complex regulatory compliance and permitting processes. No day is ever the same, but our goal of a cleaner, healthier planet remains steadfast.

Selling Points:

• Our ESOP provides you an opportunity to own part of the company – 100% of our profits are re-invested in our Employee Owners!
• SEH supports you living your best life! We offer flexible work arrangements and schedules, so you have options that work for you.
• We want you to have options to celebrate the holidays important to you and your family through our flexible paid holiday program.
• Our Paid Family Leave benefit allows you to be there for the people you love - whether it’s the family you were born into or the family you chose

What you will be doing:

• Technical lead for air permitting, air dispersion modeling, and environmental compliance projects.
• Develop air dispersion modeling approaches to demonstrate compliance with federal and state ambient air quality standards, and inhalation risk evaluations. Responsibilities need not include running the models.
• Lead a project team
• Assist with business development activities including preparing cost estimates, writing scopes of work, and communicating with clients.
• Develop project approaches in conjunction with client
• May be required to prepare complex air emission calculations.
• May be required to perform air quality engineering analysis such as Best Available Control Technology analysis or air emission control evaluations.
• Assign duties to project team, answer questions, and monitor progress
• Maintain project schedule and assures that deadlines are met
• Checks accuracy of completed work and is responsible for ensuring QA/QC procedures are followed
• Maintain close relationship with client during project execution
• May be required to maintain client contact after project is completed
• Work with state and federal regulatory agency staff
• Manage, mentor, and work with staff as needed to provide a positive team environment
• Maintain an understanding of relevant state and federal environmental regulations and guidance documents through active participation in continuing education programs and professional associations

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in chemical, environmental engineering, meteorology or other related engineering or science field of study
• Minimum of two (2) years previous experience with air quality permitting and compliance projects
• Understanding of air permitting approaches for major sources, area sources and sources eligible for Registration Permits.
• Understanding of air dispersion modeling.
• Understanding of state and federal air quality regulatory programs such as BACT, RACT, NESHAPs, and NSPS.
• Experience with conducting on-site visits
• Overnight travel or periods of on-site service may be required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Licensed as a Professional Engineer in the States of Wisconsin or Minnesota or the ability to obtain registration in either State within six (6) months of employment.
• Understanding of Prevention of Significant Deterioration permitting, compliance and avoidance.
• Experience managing a project team and the ability to coach and mentor technical staff
• Experience with air dispersion modeling software.
• Eight (8) or more years previous experience with air pollution control system evaluations.
• Strong relationships with WDNR or MPCA air permitting and compliance staff.
• Experience participating in public meetings.
• Experience presenting proposals and leading client discussions.

Who we are

Better Places. Clean Water. Renewing Infrastructure. Improving Mobility. Together with clients, we’re simplifying the world’s most complex challenges. And we’ve been doing this since 1927. SEH is employee-owned and our 900+ engineers, architects, planners, scientists and a wide array of professionals unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®. You’ll find our employee-owners located across the U.S. and evidence of our work in nearly every state.

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $90,000 and $115,000 based on skill set and experience. Check out our full benefits package at, SEH Hiring Journey

The selected candidate must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future. We are unable to provide or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

For confidential consideration, apply online or send your resume and salary requirements via fax to 651.490.2138. Please refer to the job title if you choose to fax.

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, it is the policy of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or status as a covered veteran. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.

Notice to Third Party Agencies: SEH does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, staffing services, or other employment agencies. If a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Service Agreement by SEH’s Director of Talent Attraction expressly requesting recruitment/staffing services for specific position(s), SEH reserves the right to pursue and hire these candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service. In such cases, any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, are deemed to be the property of SEH.

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