Environmental Engineer - Air Quality

Job Summary

The Air Compliance Engineer supports the Air Quality Team with the primary focus of ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal air quality laws and regulations applicable to the upstream oil and gas industry.  This role provides environmental and engineering technical support for various aspects of air quality compliance programs, including but not limited to production facility configuration and air pollution control equipment design evaluations, calculation and analysis of the physical properties and chemical composition of air emissions, process modelling to determine flash emissions and dehydration unit emissions, regulatory applicability analysis, air permit application development, planning and project management for emissions measurement, quantification and reporting of actual emission, analysis and quantification of emissions resulting from process malfunctions, estimation of off-site exposure concentrations, and emission stack design evaluations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Quantify process emissions using process simulator (ProMax), quantify dehydration unit emissions using GlyCalc.
• Develop emission calculation tools and provide Staff training on emission calculation techniques.
• Provide QA / QC review for Staff emission calculations.
• Provide on-call analysis of emissions and compliance status related to equipment / process malfunctions and provide technical assistance with development of necessary corrective actions.
• Develop / provide technical justification of emission calculations as needed to respond to regulatory agency inquiries. Represent the Company during permit limitation negotiations.
• Own all aspects of air quality compliance for applicable regional operations area and attend meetings in OKC as necessary.
• Assist in bringing various air permitting activities in-house.
• Maintain a current working knowledge of applicable rules and regulations for the oil & gas industry at local, state, and federal levels — particularly state and federal air permitting requirements, New Source Performance Standards, and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants.
• Collaborate with Facility Engineering / Operations during the design and installation phase of facilities to ensure equipment and operating conditions will satisfy air compliance regulations.
• Manage the preparation of air permit applications and serve as primary point of contact for related correspondence with regulatory agencies.
• Implement processes and procedures to ensure compliance to permit terms and conditions.
• Assist in implementation of company LDAR program requirements.
• Support efforts to respond to and meet with state and federal agencies about alleged air quality violations and other issues.
• Compile and submit annual emissions inventories, greenhouse gas reports, and NSPS OOOOa annual reports, and various air-related notifications and reports.
• Coordinate and oversee emissions performance testing projects.
• Oversee collection and perform QA / QC review of emission control device monitoring data.
• Develop and deliver air compliance training to company personnel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Competencies

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions