Environmental Engineer
Date: Apr 3, 2025
Location: Horse Cave, KY, US
Company: Dart Container
Apply environmental engineering knowledge and skills for moderately complex engineering projects to ensure that all applicable environmental regulatory compliance standards are met or exceeded.
Day-to-Day Role:
- Manage, prioritize and complete projects or programs of moderate size, scope, and duration focused on reducing the company’s environmental, health, and safety risks
- Coordinate project work with other engineers, technicians, designers and/or or drafters
- Monitor and report on regulatory compliance for federal, state, and local laws including air, water, soil and waste.
- Provide scientific and technical guidance, support, and coordination to production facilities and corporate departments
- Develop and document environmental profiles, regulatory calendars, and reporting requirements for Company facilities
- Complete permitting activities
- Lead and/or participate in environmental, health, and safety evaluations, investigations, audits, and remediation
- Oversee the collection, transport, and treatment of hazardous materials
- Support company initiatives and programs such as recycling, greenhouse gas inventories, and waste and resource minimization
- Provide product regulatory support to groups developing new products and processes to ensure compliance
- Troubleshoot, analyze, identify, evaluate, propose, implement, and document engineering and regulatory solutions to environmental issues
- Collaborate with production personnel and other departments to gather information and draft reports for improvement of equipment, processes, and products
- Create test parameters and participate in the testing and implementation of environmental and engineering solutions
- Establish continuous improvement plans in the areas of quality, safety, efficiency, or service can be improved
- Mentor lower level engineers
Core Skills and Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must possess all of the following:
- Requires one of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in engineering or related field of study and three (3) years of related engineering experience, OR
- Associate’s degree and nine (9) years of related engineering experience
- Experience interpreting environmental regulations including air, water, soil, and waste, and how it applies to the company’s processes, equipment, and products
- Experience with permitting requirements
- Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various products
- Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications
- Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
- Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of products
- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Ability to successfully prioritize, and organize projects, deadlines, and tasks with little supervision in both team and independent environments
- Strong verbal and written skills necessary to communicate intricate job-related information
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
Overview: Dart makes everyday products that give people the freedom to enjoy the food & drinks they love, wherever they are. From to-go containers and dinnerware to tamper-evident food packaging and even the red Solo cup, Dart products have been keeping people on the go and having fun for more than 50 years. Dart is a family-owned, family-focused company of 13,000 employees united by a shared set of values. Headquartered in Mason, MI, Dart has 30 locations in four countries.
Benefits: Dart Container full-time employees enjoy great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) with company matching contributions, paid vacation, paid holidays, short-term disability, tuition assistance, product discounts and more.
Dart Container is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are subject to a drug test (excluding THC*/marijuana/cannabis) and background check at the time of offer.
*THC testing ONLY when such testing is required by law.
Dart Container is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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