Associate Environmental Engineer - Coke
The Associate Environmental Engineer at Confidential Client's EES Coke facility in River Rouge, MI, supports environmental compliance for heavy industrial coke manufacturing operations. This role involves conducting field inspections, managing compliance data, supporting permit adherence, and collaborating with operations and maintenance teams to ensure regulatory and company standards are met. The position requires strong organizational skills, technical curiosity, and the ability to translate complex compliance requirements into practical operational support.
About Careertakes
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Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.
What You’ll Do
This role is embedded at a heavy industrial coke facility in River Rouge, MI and focuses on day-to-day environmental compliance support. As an Associate Environmental Engineer you will:
- Conduct routine field inspections, walkdowns, and compliance checks across coke battery, by‑product recovery, wastewater treatment, material handling, and supporting operations.
- Collect, validate, organize, and retain compliance data for air, water, waste, chemical, and community right‑to‑know reporting.
- Support permit tracking, implementation of permit conditions, and maintenance of inspection programs and recordkeeping systems.
- Maintain environmental databases, trackers, logs, and compliance calendars to ensure timely regulatory submissions.
- Assist with investigation and documentation of environmental incidents, deviations, abnormal operating conditions, complaints, and corrective actions.
- Support agency inspections, information requests, sampling events, stack testing coordination, and consultant/contractor activities.
- Research and interpret environmental requirements with guidance from senior environmental staff.
- Prepare draft compliance summaries, inspection reports, training materials, and internal communications for review.
- Coordinate with operations and maintenance personnel to gather information and support issue resolution.
- Perform other related environmental compliance duties as assigned.
What We’re Looking For (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental science, chemistry, or a related technical field from an accredited college or university.
- Approximately two years of relevant work experience supporting environmental compliance or industrial operations.
- Basic understanding of environmental regulations (air, water, waste), industrial processes, and compliance recordkeeping.
- Strong organization, follow‑through, attention to detail, and problem‑solving skills.
- Ability to work in both field and office settings and manage shifting priorities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and experience with compliance tracking systems is preferred.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills; ability to engage plant personnel and agency representatives.
- Must be able to wear required PPE and follow site safety procedures.
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Experience in heavy industrial environments such as coke, steel, refining, chemical, power generation, utilities, consulting, or regulatory agencies.
- Prior exposure to permit tracking, emissions reporting, wastewater systems, or by‑product recovery operations.
Working Conditions & Physical Demands
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. Typical requirements include:
- Frequently stand, walk, and sit. Occasionally climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
- Vision requirements: close, color, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- Frequent use of hands and fingers, ability to talk and hear, and reach with hands and arms.
- Work both in office settings and in a heavy industrial field environment with noise, dust, odors, traffic, equipment, and uneven walking surfaces.
- Must follow all site safety rules and wear required PPE.
Why Apply Through Careertakes
- You’ll be presented to a Confidential Client that operates in the Energy, Oil & Gas sector and is seeking hands‑on environmental compliance support at a single, complex coke facility.
- Careertakes provides matching to additional relevant roles and helps simplify the third‑party hiring process while protecting candidate privacy.
- This posting follows standard US hiring practices and state-level requirements for roles based in River Rouge, MI.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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