Environmental Compliance and Wastewater Specialist

Health & Beauty Solutions (HBS), part of Minerals Technologies’ Consumer & Specialties business, provides innovative skin care solutions for the personal care industry. Our Lafayette, Louisiana facility manufactures specialty ingredients and finished formulations used in skin care applications, including anti-aging, anti-acne, and sun care products.

The Lafayette facility is an FDA-registered cGMP manufacturing site specializing in polymers, specialty ingredients, and finished formulations. A key part of the business is our patented Microsponge® technology, which uses porous microparticles to deliver active ingredients in ways designed to provide sustained release while reducing skin irritation.

Our Personal Care business is focused on developing innovative solutions for skin care and active-ingredient delivery, including technologies that support reduced irritation, sustained delivery to the skin, improved stability, and improved performance of skin treatment formulations.

• →Operate and monitor the industrial wastewater treatment system in accordance with site procedures and applicable permit requirements.
• →Monitor flows, tanks, chemical feed systems, pH, sludge generation, and treatment performance, including jar testing and other process checks.
• →Coordinate sludge handling, dewatering, disposal, routine operator inspections, and maintenance or repair needs.
• →Collect wastewater, stormwater, and other environmental samples; perform field testing; maintain chain-of-custody documentation; and coordinate laboratory services.
• →Review laboratory results and promptly escalate potential permit exceedances, equipment failures, spills, releases, or abnormal operating conditions.
• →Administer assigned hazardous, non-hazardous, universal, and special waste activities under the direction of the Site EHS Manager.
• →Maintain waste profiles, manifests, inspection records, vendor documentation, environmental records, compliance calendars, and corrective-action tracking.
• →Support assigned air-compliance activities, including visible-emissions observations and VOC/LDAR monitoring when properly trained and qualified.

We are seeking an Environmental Compliance and Wastewater Specialist to join our Lafayette team. This is a hands-on technical position that combines the day-to-day operation of our industrial wastewater treatment system with important environmental compliance responsibilities.

You will work closely with the Site EHS Manager and plant operations to help ensure our wastewater systems operate safely and reliably while supporting environmental programs involving wastewater and stormwater, waste management, environmental sampling, regulatory reporting, air compliance, and environmental recordkeeping.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced wastewater professional who wants to expand into environmental compliance, or an environmental professional who brings strong hands-on industrial wastewater experience.

• Associate degree or technical education in environmental technology, wastewater treatment, chemistry, industrial technology, or a related field.
• Wastewater operator certification appropriate to the facility, or the ability to obtain certification if required by the applicable permit or regulation.
• Experience supporting industrial wastewater and stormwater discharge permits and DMR/NetDMR reporting.
• Hazardous-waste and DOT hazardous-material training appropriate to assigned responsibilities.
• Method 9 visible-emissions training or certification when applicable.
• Experience supporting Tier II, TRI, hazardous-waste, solid-waste, air, VOC, or LDAR compliance activities.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of three years of hands-on industrial wastewater treatment experience.
• Demonstrated experience monitoring and adjusting physical and chemical wastewater treatment processes.
• Experience collecting environmental samples and maintaining chain-of-custody, operating, inspection, and compliance records.
• Working knowledge of industrial wastewater, stormwater, waste management, and environmental recordkeeping requirements.
• Ability to interpret permit requirements, laboratory results, operating data, and written technical or regulatory requirements.
• Experience coordinating laboratory services, waste vendors, contractors, equipment maintenance, or related services.
• Comfort using standard computer applications and electronic environmental data systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently while escalating compliance concerns appropriately.

This is a plant-based position with work performed in indoor and outdoor industrial environments. The role may involve exposure to wastewater, sludge, treatment chemicals, odors, noise, moving equipment, uneven surfaces, and variable weather. The employee must be able to access treatment and sampling locations, use stairs and ladders, wear required personal protective equipment, and satisfy site requirements associated with respirator use when applicable. The role may also require support for off-shift, weekend, emergency, call-in, or on-call wastewater and environmental activities when operationally required.

This role directly supports reliable wastewater treatment and day-to-day environmental compliance at the Lafayette plant. It is a strong fit for an experienced wastewater operator who also has environmental compliance experience, or an environmental professional with substantial hands-on industrial wastewater experience.

The position actively participates in MTI continuous improvement processes, including 5S, standard work, daily management, root-cause problem solving, and process improvement, with a focus on wastewater reliability, environmental compliance, treatment efficiency, waste reduction, vendor performance, and cost control.

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