Speaker: Craig Pitzlaff, Curran Tomko Tarski LLP
Topic: Environmental Compliance – Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Craig Pritzlaff’s law practice focuses on environmental law and litigation. He regularly counsels clients regarding compliance, due diligence, contract, and other transactional matters relating to environmental issues. He routinely negotiates environmental enforcement matters with governmental agencies and defends administrative regulatory actions. Mr. Pritzlaff’s legal experience is supplemented by past work experience with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency’s Enforcement Branch and his professional experience as a regulator with state, local, and federal agencies, including the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (wherein Mr. Pritzlaff was selected as Employee of the Year in 1998), the City of Austin, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Degree: BS Environmental Engineer, Science or related degree

Years Experience: 10+ years

Salary: To $110,000 plus bonus potential

Location: Waco, Texas area

Industry: Manufacturing

This position will be responsible for corporate environmental compliance (areas of air – Title V, waste and water) and sustainability. Domestic travel required up to 25%.

Duties include developing, implementing and managing company-wide environmental compliance efforts; ensuring sustainable compliance through company-wide standards and programs; supporting operations and warehouses to effectively manage regulatory and permit compliance requirements; designing, implementing and supporting initiatives to manage and reduce the company’s environmental profile, risks and liabilities; reducing the company’s environmental footprint.

**Must have at least (10) years of environmental compliance within industrial operations (creation and implementation of an affirmative compliance program) and a working knowledge of environmental sustainability.

For additional information, please contact:

Laura Petraitis-Doll, EHS Recruiter
LS Doll & Associates
15774 S. La Grange Road, Suite 301
Orland, Park, IL 60462
Phone 708-478-3894
Cell 708-212-2810
Fax 708-478-3896
E-Mail: LSDoll@aol.com

• Salary is $50-60k
• Zip Code is 75238
• 150 person mfg site, 270,000 square feet
• Contact Ed Ratchford, Recruiter, 800-781-4112 or ejr@gmpassociates.net

Environmental, Health and Safety Officer/Specialist: all percentages are how the much time the previous employee spent on these activities.

• Complete ownership of the Environmental, Health and Safety Management System CONTINUAL (30%)
  1. Ensures facility conformance with ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 standards
  2. Plans, develops, implements, and maintains the EHS management systems
  3. Manages control of documents and records for the EHS management systems
  4. Team leader on the EHS management systems as well as management representative
  5. Manages the EHS management systems programs and plans of designated environmental aspects and health and safety hazards that includes performance tracking of objectives and goals
  6. Develop, implement, and update facility wide environmental health and safety programs including hazard communication, MSDS Management, lockout/tagout, hazardous/solid waste and other required programs

• Safety Officer ONGOING and AS REQUIRED (15%)

1. 1. Perform incident investigations within 24 hours of incident; statistics show about 2-3 incidents a month
   2. Investigate from start to finish who, what, when, why, where, and address corrective action/preventive action if needed, any training needed, etc.
   3. Job hazard analyses and hazard assessments as required
   4. New equipment, new line, or an event that requires for it to occur; incident with machinery that requires training to address corrective action

• EHS Training MONTHLY (15%)

1. 1. Conducts and facilitates facility wide/departmental training once a month (Emergency Action Plan, Electrical and Office Safety, Bloodborne Pathogens, Spill Control and Response, etc. etc. etc., about 10-15 more disciplines)
   2. Compiling material to gain competency in order to conducts the training
   3. Scheduling training facility or department wide for those personnel affect in a way that it maintains facility productivity in all operations
   4. Conduct assessment of all personnel involved to test for competency

• Manages the Nonhazardous, Hazardous, and Universal waste program QUARTERLY and AS REQUIRED (10%)

1. Manages all waste that needs to be dispositioned with the proper waste stream
2. Coordinate Universal and Hazardous Waste disposal once a quarter with respective waste company
3. Performance tracking of all waste sent to the landfill for performance tracking of facility environmental objectives and goals
4. Manages all recycling that needs to be handled with respective companies
5. Coordinate recycling to be sent out or picked up as needed
6. Performance tracking of all recycling sent for performance tracking of facility environmental objectives and goals

• Manages the recycling program and other green initiatives and projects ONGOING and AS REQUIRED (10%)

• Management Representative for company and external interested parties for all EHS matters AS REQUIRED (10%)

1. 1. Main source of communication with external interested parties (local, state, and federal agencies, customers, clients)
   2. Once a year during scheduled surveillance or recertification audits from outside agencies/companies
   3. As required during unscheduled audits and inspections from outside agencies/companies

• Presides over the EHS Steering Committee Meetings MONTHLY (5%)

1. 1. Comprised of top management, managers and supervisors from each department, about 10-15 in attendance
   2. Usually lasts from 45-60 minutes depending on the information discussed; key projects, notifications, open forum for hot topics
   3. Plan and discuss EHS initiatives and projects, incident investigation, EHS objectives and goals performance tracking, scheduled training, EHS Management Systems Internal Audit Schedule

• Facility EHS Compliance Audit MONTHLY (5%)

1. 1. Usually lasts from 60-90 minutes depending on the number of violations found on any given day; addressing of immediate corrective and preventive action
   2. Log all violations and observances on a report, email to top management, managers and supervisors to address all items and discuss during EHS Steering Committee meeting

Job Description:

Coordinate, monitor and develop plans for addressing all environmental and associated regulatory issues and requirements of the Fort Worth brewery. Administer and execute the facility’s environmental plans and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and other rules promulgated by the various governmental agencies. Serve as the facility’s focal point and principle contact with the various governmental agencies as the principle environmental representative of the Plant Manager. Act in concert with the Safety functions to support and promote a safe work environment and be capable of serving as the back up to the Safety Manager and other functional team members.

Must possess strong leadership, time management, project management and environmental compliance skills in the execution of the facility compliance programs. Must be highly knowledgeable of and have 3 years minimum direct experience in executing applicable laws such as RCRA, HSWA, SARA, Community Right to Know Act, CERCLA, TSCA, NEPA, Air Resources Act, Environmental Policy, Air Pollution Control Regulations, Oil Pollution and Hazardous Substances Control Act, etc. Familiarity/experience with OSHA regulation is highly desired. Experience supervising craft operator/mechanics in a Union facility is highly desirable. Must have a 4 year college degree- preferably in Environmental, Safety, or Chemical Engineering.

Interested candidates can apply online at www.millercoors.com or at http://www.jobpath.com/Jobs/Miller-Coors/Environmental-Health-And-Safety-Specialist/J3I0QW61GWS8X9YHLP9

I am a graduate student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Auburn University. I would like to invite you to participate in our research study to evaluate the effect of the use of performance based qualifiers in GHS precautionary statements communication. You may participate if you are age 18 and older and by education, training, or work experience would have a high awareness of hazard communication.

As a participant, you will be asked to respond to an electronic survey. It should take one hour to complete the entire process.

If you would like to participate in this research study, please send an e-mail to Eric at . If you would like to know more information about this study, an information letter can be obtained by sending an e-mail to boelhej@auburn.edu. If you decide to participate after reading the letter, you will need to send another e-mail to boelhej@auburn.edu, so the information packet and the link to the survey can be e-mailed to you.

If you have any questions not addressed in this note or the information letter, you may contact Eric at (504) 606-9460 or his academic advisor, Dr. Jerry Davis, at (334) 844-1411.

Thank you for your consideration,

Eric Boelhouwer, MISE, MBA, ASP, AHFP

PhD Candidate
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Auburn University

504-606-9460 (mobile)

boelhej@auburn.edu

When you began your career in environmental engineering did you dream of helping to clean up the planet, only to now find yourself working to defend a big polluter?  At Corrugated Services, protecting the environment is a core company value, and it has been since the company was founded.  CSI started up what was perhaps the world’s most environmentally friendly paper mill in 1974 producing 100% recycled paper with zero effluent.  In recent years the company has invested heavily in technologies to improve energy efficiencies, reduce fossil fuel consumption, and dramatically decrease greenhouse gas emissions.  If you are a highly skilled and talented environmental engineer who wants to help an industry leader succeed, consider a career at Corrugated Services.

CSI produces over 300,000 tons per year of 100% recycled paper for the box business.  Compared to a typical paper mill the company uses 57% less energy, produces 63% less solid waste, and uses 98% less fresh water.  In 2008 the company started up a cutting-edge biofuels boiler to provide steam and electricity for the papermaking process by burning waste wood – broken pallets and trim from cabinet manufacturing that would otherwise end up in a landfill.  Because the company has had such a limited environmental impact over the years, regulatory compliance has never been a challenging issue.  The recordkeeping and reporting requirements associated with the new bioboiler have overwhelmed our capabilities, though, and we now find we are in need of a highly capably environmental engineer.

The right candidate will, of course, have had a solid education in environmental engineering or closely related field and will have worked for at least three to five years on permitting and compliance issues across the spectrum: air, water, storm water, solid waste, etc.  In addition to solid credentials in environmental management, the extraordinary engineer we seek will also have demonstrated capabilities to manage significant capital projects aimed at improving environmental performance.

The high-performing environmental engineer at CSI is ready to:

• Ensure that CSI is in full compliance with environmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements at the company’s paper mill in Forney, Texas, and its recycling facilities in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
• Organize the effort to address and correct compliance issues that arise
• Manage projects to improve environmental performance
• Provide technical support for papermaking operations

Corrugated Services is the largest independent producer of recycled containerboard in the United States.  The company started in 1974 and has a long track record of success and sustained growth throughout its history.  In 2008 the company merged with Orange County Container, its largest customer, and now operates as the paper division of the Orange County Container Group LLC.  The combined company has over 2,500 employees and $500 million in annual sales from operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, California, and northern Mexico.

If you are ready to really make a difference for the planet we all inhabit, please forward your resume to hrpositions@csipaper.com.  Please include “Environmental Engineer” in the subject line.