Environmental Compliance Specialist

About Cleanharbors

Clean Harbors Inc. (www.cleanharbors.com) is a NYSE listed US based $6 billion company. Clean Harbors was founded in 1980 near Boston by Mr. Alan S. McKim, who today remains the company’s Chairman.
Everywhere industry meets environment, Clean Harbors is on-site, providing premier environmental, energy and industrial services. Clean Harbors employs a dedicated workforce of 18,000 employees and has over 450 service locations across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Beyond addressing the environmental needs of its more than 300,000 customers, the Company has been on the front lines of addressing some of the largest emergency response events in North America of the past several decades including the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the anthrax attacks in New York, the 2015 avian flu outbreak that devastated the poultry industry, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Sandy, and the oil pipeline breaks that affected the Yellowstone and Kalamazoo rivers, along with other major chemical releases into the environment.
Clean Harbors India has been strategically established as the Global Capability Center (GCC) to serve our parent company. We take pride in serving some of the most tech savvy business stakeholders at Clean Harbors. The GCC employees form part of our globally integrated teams that provide cutting-edge IT solutions and production support across platforms. Our shared services teams work seamlessly with their global counterparts in providing critical 24x7 support in various functions including Finance, HR, Procurement, IT and Operations. Our aggressive growth plans open significant career advancement opportunities for our employees.

Job Overview:

• Primary responsibilities are internal audit of waste system processes (both Focal Point and WIN), internal controls to facilitate data integrity, risk management with regulatory agencies and customers, regulatory compliance associated to shipment documents and reporting functions. Waste systems data integrity and new systems/process verifications. 
• Completing regulatory reports with deadlines to state and/or federal agencies. 
• Comprehension of the WIN system and plant operations to evaluate the quality of the data extracted for report completion.
• Review data for certain reports on an on-going basis to address errors in the data that impact regulatory reports. This may be weekly, monthly quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and Bi-annual depending on issues and report deadlines. 
• Manage contacts with sites, field Compliance and regulatory agencies as needed to facilitate the corrections. 
• Work with field compliance 
• Ensuring that Health and Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes as well as always acting in a safe manner. 
• Responsiveness to Service Now tickets for Focal Point Waste processes facilitating shipments migrating to WIN. 
• Provide training to field as needed for waste related initiatives. 
• Data Integrity reviews in Focal Point and WIN. 
• Review data for certain reports on an on-going basis to address errors in the data that will affect regulatory reports. This may be weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual depending on the report itself. Make corrections as needed. Coordinate training to locations with significant deficiencies. 
• Work with the plant manager and Compliance staff on generating certain reports, demonstrate available processes and resources. 
• Compile and submit regulatory reports within the EPA defined due dates. Ensure accuracy, validity and completeness of all documentation used when preparing and submitting these reports. 
• Provide own signature as certification on select reports. Obtain signatures/certifications from other compliance staff on select reports. Maintain central archives for all submittals. 
• Prepare responses to Regulatory Agency requests, as required. 
• Coordinate changes to regulatory reports with MIS, providing overviews of desired result and detailed testing of applicable changes. 
• Understand functionality for waste information for two separate systems (Focal Point and WIN) and provide support and suggested improvements. 
• Review and implementation of process improvements. 
• Need to work on other compliance projects, as requested. 
• Managing processes / projects as assigned such as OFFC, DEA, Generator status, TRI, Tier II, NPRI, GMDR and the Municipality reporting projects etc... 
• Reports Managed: 
• Federal, State, Transport or municipality Waste Reports and fees 

Competencies:

• Knowledge of DOT, RCRA, DEA and US/STATE EPA regulations 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational skills 
• Deadline oriented 
• Project oriented 
• Focal Point and WIN System competencies. 
• Attention to detail, motivated and self-starter.

Education/Experience:

• Degree in Environmental Science or related field (preferred) 
• 0-2 years experience with WINWEB at a plant or in a customer service (preferred) 
• 0-2 years experience with regulatory reporting (preferred) 
• DOT and RCRA Certifications (preferred) 

40-years of sustainability in action. At Clean Harbors, our mission is to create a safer, cleaner environment through the treatment, recycling, and disposal of hazardous materials. Clean Harbors is the leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Everywhere industry meets environment, Clean Harbors is on-site, providing premier environmental, energy and industrial services. We are solving tough problems through innovation and proven methodology – come be part of the solution with us.