Chevron Canada Job Postings

Environmental Specialist

Dept/Location: Burnaby, BC
Posting Close Date: Jan. 29, 2012

We have an exciting career opportunity at our Burnaby Refinery for an Environmental Specialist.
Chevron’s Burnaby Refinery is a modern 55,000 Barrel per day refinery located on Burrard Inlet.  It supplies a significant portion of southwestern BC’s gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel and is part of Chevron’s global network of refineries.

As a member of the Health, Environment and Safety team supporting the Refinery, you will steward environmental compliance for air, water, waste, toxics, greenhouse gas and land for all Federal, Provincial, Municipal and Metro Vancouver regulatory requirements.  The Specialist acts as a resource to other refinery groups, advising on permit limits, as well as regulatory and Operational Excellence (OE) requirements and obligations.  As well, the Specialist performs the critical function of regular interaction and liaison with government agencies.

Typical responsibilities will include:

• Achieves Refinery compliance with all relevant regulations. Ensure compliance is tracked and reported appropriately; provides guidance as required. Advisor for Operational Excellence (OE) processes.
•  Ensure organization is aware of and acting on requirements to meet legal obligations for new environmental regulations for all levels of government.
•  Prepares and reviews all regulatory environmental reports for agencies - and corporate - as required for air, water, waste, toxics, greenhouse gas and land.
• Works in compliance assurance (CA) to fulfill compliance obligations, help maintain content of register and act as back-up for CA subject matter expert.
•  Supports community inquiries with local neighbours, Community Advisory Panel and regulatory officials on pertinent issues, including Odour Management Plan.
•  Provides environmental awareness sessions/training as needed.  Works with Environmental and Operations groups to ensure coordination of regulatory testing, completion of pre-checklists and scheduling. 
  

Qualifications:

• 1 to 5 years’ experience in a refinery or petrochemical setting
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences
• Interpersonal/Communication skills: Ability to build effective relationships.  Communicates clearly in all directions, both orally and in writing. 
• Work Management Skills:  Demonstrated ability to concurrently handle multiple initiatives with varying priority and deadlines with minimal supervision.  Able to apply a systematic approach to getting results.
• Analytical Skills – ability to process and analyze large amounts of data
• Process Management – systematically coordinates and integrates activities across the organization;

Career Opportunities

A career at Chevron offers a competitive total remuneration package which includes performance based pay, short term incentives, and compressed work week schedules.  At Chevron, continuous learning is part of our culture, and it opens the door to career possibilities at locations around the world.   Engineering career tracks include operations management, project management and technical career paths domestically or internationally.

Qualified applicants are invited to submit a resume in confidence by Sunday, January 29, 2012.  If you’re interested in applying for this position and being part of the Chevron team, please submit your resume to bccareers@chevron.com (In Subject Line, enter:  “Environmental Specialist 012012

While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Chevron is building a diverse workforce and is committed to employment equity.