Air Quality Specialist
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- 53433 Requisition #
Parsons’ engineering and construction management staff members create innovative, safe, and sustainable infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait. We deliver rail, transit, road, and highway transportation; water conveyance and wastewater treatment; oil and gas; land development; public; and aviation infrastructure to our customers and communities. Parsons creates interconnected communities and world-class infrastructure.
Principal Objective:
Develop the strategy for control and assess emission in the city and adjacent areas and provide the needed advice and guidance to the Environmental Department through field visits, on-site inspections, testing and preparing scientific, technical reports. Reports to SAPL Environmental Manager, supports the department in daily operations, interfaces with the Client, Industries, and EPCD team members. Receives administrative and technical direction in term of board project objectives from Environmental Protection and Control Department Director and SAPL Environmental Manager.
Major Activities Performed:
- General consultancy on all
matters related to air quality management and compliance.
- Ensuring all regulated
industries comply with their air-quality management obligations under the
Client's environmental regulations, e.g., third-party compliance
monitoring, CEMS, odour management.
- Technical lead for site
inspections related to witnessing environmental monitoring, facility
audits and emergency incident response.
- Prepare Notice of
Non-compliance letters to industries and administers the preparation and
determination of fines and penalty values based on the extent of industry
violations and non-adherence.
- Performs periodic
inspections on facilities and AQS to ensure environmental compliance.
- Review and evaluate
submitted data from investors.
- Check environmental Impact
Assessments studies submitted by new industrial investors and existing
Industries seeking a renewal of their Environmental Permit to Operate.
- Participates in the
periodic revision of the Client's Environmental regulations and standards
and implement the same in line with Kingdom’s laws, international
regulations and standards, and best practices.
- Sets and monitors the
Client's Environmental regulations and standards in line with the
government’s environmental standards and best practices.
- Preparation and management
of environmental study scope of works.
- Manages subcontractors
performing environmental studies and reviews/comments on work products.
- Supports planning efforts
for environmental activities associated with the Yanbu Master Plan
expansion.
- Development,
implementation, and management of the quality assurance program and
technical operations for the client's ambient air quality monitoring
network.
- Permit applications
package review of potential industries investors (e.g., EIA review,
dispersion model verification, assessment of BAT for pollution control).
- Formal monitoring and
training of junior staff through the Client's Shadow Program.
- Greenhouse gas is inventorying
and carbon footprint analysis of Industries City (Via GPC metrics) and
input into the Client's sustainability initiative (accreditation under ISO
37120).
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
- Master’s degree in relevant field (Air Pollution Control, Environmental Risk Management) preferred.
- No less than (10) years of relevant experience in the field of environmental management with primary experience in the petrochemical and oil refinery sector is required.
- Knowledge of quality, Health, safety, and Environmental (QHSE) regulations and procedures.
- Knowledge of safety and environment regulations followed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with experience of the environmental regulatory process within the petrochemical and oil refinery sectors (preferably within a Government Entity within Yanbu & Jubail, KSA or similar).
- Conversant with air pollution measurement and control equipment.
- Experience in setting disaster recovery plans in cases of emergency and the execution of those plans.
- Familiar with health, safety, and environmental (HSE).
- Strong management, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Relevant computer proficiency, experience in using Microsoft Office tools and any relevant software.
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider focused on the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. With nearly 75 years of experience, Parsons is uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services to federal, regional, and local government agencies, as well as to private industrial customers worldwide.
Parsons is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LGBT.
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