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The role is required to oversee and manage environmental and wastewater treatment operations across 2 sites sites in Singapore. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, optimizing wastewater treatment processes, and promoting sustainable practices across both sites.

Key Responsibilities:

• Environmental Compliance: Ensure that both GOPS sites comply with all local, state, and federal environmental regulations, including wastewater discharge permits, air quality standards, and hazardous waste management.
• Wastewater Treatment Management: Oversee the operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment facilities, including monitoring treatment processes, conducting regular inspections, and ensuring efficient and effective treatment of wastewater equipment, measuring instruments and sensors
• Process Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve wastewater treatment processes, reduce waste, and enhance overall efficiency. Implement best practices and innovative solutions to achieve environmental goals.
• Data Analysis and Reporting: Collect, analyze, and report environmental data, including wastewater quality, emissions, and waste generation. Prepare and submit regulatory reports and documentation as required.

• Environmental Audits: Conduct regular environmental audits and assessments to identify potential areas of non-compliance and implement corrective actions. Ensure readiness for external audits and inspections. Support in the site’s external and internal inspections and audits (ISO14001, 45001, 50001, program evaluations, etc)

• Sustainability Initiatives: Develop and implement sustainability initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of operations. Promote the adoption of green technologies and practices at both sites.
• Training and Education: Provide training and guidance to site personnel on environmental and wastewater treatment procedures, regulatory requirements, and best practices. Foster a culture of environmental awareness and responsibility.
• Emergency Response: Develop and maintain emergency response plans for environmental incidents, including spills, leaks, and other emergencies. Coordinate response efforts and ensure timely communication with relevant authorities.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and contractors involved in environmental and wastewater treatment services. Ensure that all third-party activities comply with company standards and regulations.
• Project Management: Lead and manage environmental projects, including upgrades/automating wastewater treatment facilities, installation of new equipment, and implementation of environmental initiatives. Ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Reporting and Sampling: Perform NEA required waste reporting. Manage weekly sampling from regulatory agencies. Maintain sampling and discharge monitoring equipment
• Risk Management: Review, revise and advise on risk assessment, job hazard assessment and participate in process hazard management.

• Continual Improvement: Review and analyze technological advances in the realm of EHS and WWTP pertinent to the site

Area of Focus:

• Be competent and expertise in local, US OSHA and EPA legislative
• Knowledge of: operation and maintenance of onsite wastewater treatment facilities; wastewater treatment processes, chemical characteristics and standard method of sampling and analysis of water; occupational hazards and standard precautions and emergency response necessary in a wastewater treatment facility.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of supervision, training and performance evaluation. Responsible for performing a risk assessment of work activities, taking corrective and preventive actions
• Uphold EHS guiding principles to drive the site/s to best practices that make up world class EH&S culture

Area of Expertise;

• Proficient in the operation and maintenance of a wastewater treatment system, including components such as pumps, physio-chemical treatment, hexavalent chromium reduction, ultra-filtration, carbon filtration, ion exchange, vacuum distillation, ultraviolet disinfection, electrochemical coagulation system and acid/alkaline and cyanide scrubbers.
• Capable of planning, directing, scheduling, and supervising employees or contractors in the operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment plant. Skilled in monitoring the operational efficiency of a large-scale treatment system, maintaining records, and preparing reports on plant operations and effluent quality. Able to suggest methods for improving plant efficiency and supervise laboratory activities related to wastewater analysis.
• Proficient in using supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to analyze data for quality control of plant processes.
• Experienced in ordering supplies and materials, preparing cost estimates, assisting in the development of equipment specifications, and contributing to budget preparation and administration.
• Competent in training subordinates and responding to emergencies on a 24/7 on-call basis.

Requirements:

• Degree in Engineering/Chemistry/Environmental Engineering discipline with relevant waste water treatment experience;
• At least 5 years’ relevant experience preferably in a similar function
• Certificate of competency in waste water treatment is preferred.
• Knowledge of local legislation and US OSHA and EPA requirements
• Certificates in Fire Safety Manager, Hazardous substance license holder, confined space, will be advantageous
• Good knowledge of safe handling procedures of hazardous substances
• Knowledge of computer and Microsoft Office
• Aspiring/Registered WSHO

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  

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