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Environmental Engineer (Facility Air Quality Engineer)

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Mississippi, Monticello
Aug 14, 2025

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Georgia Pacific's Containerboard and Cellulose group is seeking qualified professionals for our Facility Air Engineer role at our containerboard mill located in Monticello, MS. The Facility Air Engineer provides leadership and strategic direction to the mill's air program; helping align mill and regional air strategies, drive performance improvement through efficient, effective, and sustainable management systems, and ensuring leaders and employees are equipped to manage air responsibilities. This position reports to the mill Environmental Manager and creates value for the organization by ensuring compliance is maintained and risk is identified and mitigated. Long-term value is created through the application of our Principle Based Management business philosophy. If you are enthusiastic about embracing and leading change, possess strong people skills and efficiently balance multiple priorities this may be the role for you. You will utilize your verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of audiences - from mill operations personnel to business leaders. To succeed in this role, you will need to be self-directed, initiative-taking, lead by example, possess strong analytical skills, exhibit sound decision-making, and have proficient organizational skills.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Monticello is a fully integrated containerboard mill that employs 450 employees and continues to benefit from extensive capital investment. This position is an opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding organization with tremendous growth potential. Monticello, Mississippi, is an hour South of Jackson, MS, and an hour Northwest of Hattiesburg, MS.

What You Will Do

  • Provide leadership and strategic direction related to the mill's air programs consistent with our Stewardship & Compliance Principles to achieve our Vision
  • Develop and maintain an evergreen point of view of environmental risks, priorities, key issues, and strategic plans as it pertains to the mill and business environmental programs
  • Lead and support the mill permitting efforts and track emerging issues
  • Fulfill regulatory compliance obligations in a disciplined manner that leverages technology enablers, common processes, and best practices from across the enterprise
  • Systematically drive the air environmental programs all be more resilient, effective, consistent, verifiable, and efficient (structured and principled vs. rule based)
  • Build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including regulatory agencies
  • Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of mill processes and their impact on environmental performance which allows the facility to enable our operations teams to meet their environmental obligations
  • Lead compliance with requirements of various air regulations, including Title V, Greenhouse Gas, Boiler MACT, SARA reporting and New Source Performance Standards (S and MM)
  • Prepare emission inventory reports; quantify air pollutant emissions, upload/enter inventory data to state on-line systems
  • Routine data/information review and management and analyses
  • Routine regulatory report generation and submittal
  • Manage continuous monitoring systems: continuous emission monitors (CEM), continuous opacity monitor (COM) quality assurance/quality control, maintain the data acquisition system (DAS), provide support to maintain CEM/COM reliability
  • Manage the execution of the annual stack testing program
  • Review projects and changes with respect to permitting applicability and air regulatory compliance
  • Periodically rotate "on call" to provide environmental support for operations and review daily compliance status outside of regular business hours

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor of Science Degree
  • Manufacturing or industrial experience working in an environmentally regulated facility
  • Experience in overseeing an Air Program
  • Experience in developing and maintaining environmental reports and calculations
  • Proficient in using Microsoft Office Suite software (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint)
  • Ability to work at heights

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Management, or Engineering
  • Five (5) or more years working in the environmental regulatory arena
  • Working knowledge of air, water, and waste environmental regulations, specifically for the state of Mississippi
    • Experience in managing complex environmental issues in a large manufacturing environment, specifically in the pulp and paper industry
    • Experience with MACRO's, creating graphs, and advanced calculations in Excel
    • Experience with CEMLink or similar data management systems
    Onsite industrial/manufacturing experience implementing air compliance programs Proven experience with training, coaching, or mentoring others

    At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

    Hiring Philosophy

    All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

    Who We Are

    As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

    At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

    Our Benefits

    Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

    Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

    Equal Opportunities

    Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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