Environmental Manager

Company Details

Darling Ingredients repurposes and recycles materials from the animal agriculture and food industries—transforming them into essential ingredients that do everything from feeding animals to fertilizing crops to fueling planes and nourishing people. We are the number one publicly traded company of our kind, operating a global family of brands and businesses that span more than 260 facilities in over 15 countries.

Our unique scale allows us to make entire industries less wasteful and more sustainable, helping move the world toward a more circular economy.

Darling Ingredients offers full‑time employees a full suite of benefits including 401(k), health, dental, vision insurance, and paid time off.

The Environment Manager is responsible for ensuring the location meets its environmental permit compliance responsibilities, manages the plant’s pollution control scrubber and wastewater operations, ensures boiler operations are compliant with state and company policy, and improves the facility’s environmental performance within the community.

• Maintain staff and location in compliance with all company, state, or federal OSHA safety policies and practices.
• Provide supervision to production operators in reference to safe boiler operations, wastewater treatment, and air treatment equipment.
• Lead, train, and implement plant Standard Operating Procedures on plant air pollution control equipment.
• Lead, train, and implement plant Standard Operating Procedures on plant steam generation equipment.
• Lead, train, and implement plant Standard Operating Procedures on plant wastewater pretreatment, lagoon operations, and land application system.
• Develop, assign, and implement CIP schedules of scrubbers and associated equipment taking production activities into account.
• Collect and analyze daily environmental data to make operating recommendations to plant management to ensure performance of pollution control and treatment equipment.
• Prepare state and federal environmental permit related submittals for the General Manager.
• Ensure facility is operating within the company's environmental policies.
• Be proficient at developing Standard Operating Procedures for staff and contractors.
• Comfortable and competent working and leading staff in a fast‑paced environment.
• Comfortable with working off shift (night, weekend, or holiday) hours for extended periods as plant production needs dictate.
• Forecast needs, source through competitive bids, and maintain appropriate spare parts inventory.
• Provide or source technical guidance in wastewater lagoons, VOC scrubbers, and land application system (e.g., recognizing and troubleshooting lagoon operations, air treatment condensers and scrubbers).
• Evaluate and decide using technical specifications provided on equipment data sheets to base performance decisions.
• Train new personnel on company safety procedures and safe operating standards in accordance with OSHA.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

• Wastewater Operator Certification (GA) or the ability to become a certified operator.
• High school diploma (GED).
• BSc/BA Degree or AA/ATT (or related vocational technical degree).
• Prior experience as supervisor/manager.
• Demonstrated knowledge of environmental systems and equipment procedures.
• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities and ability to communicate with the General Manager.
• Experience with CMMS, MS Word, and MS Excel.

• Prior rendering experience preferred.
• Management experience in an agricultural/industrial business preferred.
• Good communication skills both oral and written.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Knowledge of industrial electrical, electronic, mechanical, and preventive and predictive maintenance procedures.
• Ability to provide leadership and training to production personnel.
• Team player; works well with others; ability to supervise a large on‑staff maintenance department.
• Ability to coordinate multiple contractors on multiple projects, jobs, or tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to source installations of electronic, electrical, mechanical equipment.
• Detail oriented; well organized; ability to…