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Southern Company

Mgr, Environmental

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Euharlee
State: 
Georgia
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other

Environmental Manager - Plant Bowen

Job Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership for the safe and compliant operation and maintenance of all environmental equipment
    • Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, anhydrous ammonia systems, and process safety management (PSM) compliance
    • Electrostatic precipitator (ESP), baghouse, dry fly ash systems, and ash sales
    • Flue gas desulfurization (FGD), limestone handling, gypsum handling, gypsum sales, FGD wastewater treatment systems, plant water balance, and effluent limitations guidelines (ELG) systems
    • Dry sorbent injection (DSI) systems and mercury re-emission control systems (MRCS)
    • Remote submerged chain conveyor (RSCC) and bottom ash disposal
    • Low volume wastewater treatment systems, including coal pile runoff
    • Coal combustion residuals (CCR) landfills and leachate management
    • Continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS)
  • Responsible for plant environmental O&M and capital budgets, including environmental commodities and CCR sales
  • Responsible for plant integration for all environmental projects
  • Responsible for contracting strategy for environmental equipment operation and maintenance
  • Responsible for ELG construction project execution to achieve regulatory compliance deadline
  • Serve as plant liaison for GPC Environmental Affairs and TSS on ash pond closure project
  • Interface with GPC Environmental Affairs on regulatory compliance requirements and environmental strategy


Education

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering preferred


Experience

  • Department manager experience required
  • Environmental controls equipment operation and maintenance experience preferred
  • Budget management experience required
  • Contract management experience required
  • Project and/or construction management experience preferred


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Proven leadership skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong technical background on environmental controls equipment
  • Ability to collaborate with internal and external customers and technical support
  • In depth knowledge and experience in budgeting and cost accounting

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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