Environmental Specialist

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You'll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success-take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Working with the established teams and processes at each of our plants to support, facilitate and supplement existing regional and plant compliance efforts.
• Support and document facility inspections and compliance certifications; participate in and document 3rd party and regulatory agency facility inspections.
• Evaluate test reports, analytical data, and procedures for compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, test methods, and NRG environmental standards.
• Respond to environmental events at NRG facilities, as required.
• Coordinate and/or conduct quality assurance reviews of the emissions data collected by the Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems and monitoring plan updates.
• Coordinate and/or conduct quality assurance reviews of data collected by the water discharge monitoring systems and the monitoring plan updates.
• Ability to develop expertise in various data acquisition and handling software systems; including development of data trends and other statistical analysis.
• Assist established teams to ensure that new environmental permits or other authorizations required (due to changes in operations or law/regulation) are applied for and obtained when needed; including support of administrative filings and internal documentation.
• Support corporate environmental initiatives.
• Maintain and champion the Company's environmental stewardship.

• Primarily corporate office, some travel to power plants, agency meetings, and technical conferences.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science or related discipline and at least 5 or more years of experience in the environmental field, OR Master's degree in engineering, science or related discipline and at least 3 or more years of experience in the environmental field.
• General knowledge of major environmental laws (CAA, CWA, RCRA, CERCLA, etc.) and their requirements, including relevant federal, state and regional regulations and policies.
• General knowledge of industrial plant operations and the associated environmental compliance programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with data acquisition and handling software (DAHS), Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS), Discharge Monitoring Reporting (DMR), Stack testing/methods, Groundwater monitoring and analytical laboratory methods.
• Intermediate to expert level capabilities in Microsoft Excel.
• Working knowledge and utilization of AI tools.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be a self-motivated, organized, energetic and committed team player.
• An ability to communicate (both verbally and in writing) technical and regulatory topics effectively and with appropriate supporting data.
• Capable of critical and analytical thinking.
• Possess an interest in, and aptitude for, solving problems in a practical, business-oriented manner.
• Ability to work independently and achieve multiple deadlines.
• Experience with environmental regulations, test methods, QA/QC activities, and agency interaction.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and produce quality work products.
• Ability to perform as part of a multi-disciplinary team and achieve optimal outcomes in a matrixed organization.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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