Principal Environmental Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Plymouth, MN +1 · Environmental

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Environmental Engineer to manage environmental compliance, sustainability metrics, and risks at their Plymouth, MN facility. Responsibilities include monitoring regulations, managing hazardous waste, preparing emissions reports, conducting inspections, and collaborating with regulators. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related science field and 5 years of experience, with a strong understanding of environmental laws like CAA, CWA, and RCRA.

What you'd actually do

  1. Monitor and analyze regulations issued by Hennepin County, MN Pollution Control Agency and Federal EPA to determine potential impacts to operations and establish solutions to maintain compliance.
  2. Manage all aspects of hazardous waste generation, accumulation, labeling, storage, tracking, characterization and profiling of new and dynamic waste streams.
  3. Prepare environmental emissions calculations, reporting, permitting, sampling and monitoring necessary to maintain compliance and internal company tracking is kept up to date.
  4. Perform onsite inspections to monitor compliance and trends, while driving innovative improvements to controls and systems over time.
  5. Conduct studies and determine impacts and permitting requirements needed for site changes, alterations to existing facilities, maintenance activities, equipment additions, etc.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's of Science Degree in Environmental, Safety, Engineering or Related Sciences & 5 years of related experience, OR a Masters degree in a STEM field & 3 years of related experience
  • Regulatory understanding and experience navigating; Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Hazardous Waste/RCRA, EPCRA, TRI, Stormwater, drinking water and other emerging regulations.
  • Experience using Microsoft Office applications to organize and complete tasks; Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Strong Excel Skills, using spreadsheets to calculate and convert emissions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills required for interfacing across departments onsite, in addition to government regulators.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently prioritize, plan and execute in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment while maintaining high quality results
  • Ability to work both independently and within a team, multi-task and have strong facilitation skills

Nice to have

  • Experience working with explosives or other hazardous materials.
  • Experience with implementing an ISO 14001 Compliant Environmental Management System
  • Hazardous Waste Operations Certification
  • DOT Hazardous Materials Certification
  • Experience Navigating REACH or other European regulations related to product compliance.

What the JD emphasized

  • ISO 14001 principals
  • environmental risks
  • hazardous waste
  • emissions calculations
  • site changes
  • regulators
  • Environmental Management System
  • heavily regulated
  • hazardous materials
  • ISO 14001 Compliant Environmental Management System
  • Hazardous Waste Operations Certification
  • DOT Hazardous Materials Certification