Senior Engineer - Environmental Compliance

Celanese is seeking a proactive Environmental Compliance Engineer to join our team in Narrows, VA. This hands-on role is responsible for leading air and landfill environmental systems, ensuring full regulatory compliance, and driving continuous improvement across environmental programs.

The successful candidate will oversee the site’s Environmental Management System, manage regulatory reporting, and support production units in resolving environmental, safety, and process issues. The role also includes ownership of leading indicator programs, internal audits, and cross-functional investigations.

• Ownership of Air and Landfill environmental systems and Celanese compliance activities.
• Oversight of site Environmental Management System and policies to ensure site compliance with regulatory elements and timely submission of reports to state and federal agencies.
• Ownership of site Process Leading Indicator program to expand identification and reporting of incidents which could lead to environmental releases.
• Direct production unit support regarding resolution of process safety, environmental, and occupational safety issues, technical reviews of Management of Change (MOCs), and investigations.
• Completes internal and external assessment of environmental program execution, develop and administers feedback measures, then review results for drift prevention and future alignment.

• BS Degree in Environmental Engineering or Degree in Mechanical / Chemical Engineering with relevant work experience in Stewardship compliance.
• 3+ years' experience with environmental permitting and reporting activities.
• Strong background with development and implementation of stewardship compliance programs and systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational culture change through influence.
• Must be able to work with and communicate effectively with all levels in the organization, resolve process safety issues and problems, and be able to exhibit a high degree of teamwork and cooperation.
• Demonstrated organizational skills and an ability to manage multiple projects and tasks in an effective and timely manner.
• Experience with government (federal/state/local) regulations highly preferred