Environmental Engineer

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Job Description:

Join the Environmental and Safety Engineering team as Engineer I-Environmental/Safety supporting environmental compliance, health and safety, permitting, risk assessment, pollution prevention, sustainability, incident prevention, and management systems. This entry-level role is ideal for recent graduates or candidates with a foundational understanding of environmental engineering, EHS, regulatory compliance, permitting, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, sustainability, or a closely related area.

In this role, you will complete defined assignments with appropriate technical guidance, partner with relevant technical and business stakeholders, and help deliver reliable, compliant, high-quality outcomes and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Support development and sustainment of environmental, health, safety, permitting, risk, compliance, and management-system programs.
• Support translation of regulatory, operational, facility, process, chemical, stakeholder, and business needs into requirements and controls.
• Support analysis of hazards, environmental impacts, incidents, exposure, compliance, trends, risks, and technical tradeoffs.
• Assist with environmental, safety, compliance, permit, incident, and corrective-action investigations within approved scope.
• Support review of permits, assessments, monitoring, audits, inspections, changes, controls, training, and readiness evidence.
• Support prevention, compliance, pollution reduction, risk reduction, data quality, standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Assist with coordination across EHS, facilities, manufacturing, engineering, legal, security, supply chain, and leadership teams.
• Support maintenance of permits, assessments, monitoring, incidents, actions, reports, controls, and lifecycle documentation.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related field with 3 years or less of relevant experience in environmental engineering, EHS, regulatory compliance, permitting, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, sustainability, or a closely related area.

Qualified candidates should demonstrate analytical thinking, structured problem solving, technical ownership, clear communication, technical documentation, cross-functional collaboration, quality and safety focus, and sound judgment in environmental and safety engineering work.

Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate:

• Employment stability, reliability, and sustained accountability in prior roles.
• Effective teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
• Integrity and accuracy in representing qualifications, experience, and credentials.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with environmental compliance, air, water, waste, hazardous materials, permitting, EHS, industrial hygiene, or safety engineering.
• Experience with risk assessment, audits, inspections, incident investigation, corrective action, management systems, or regulatory reporting.
• Experience with manufacturing environments, pollution prevention, emergency response, sustainability, data analysis, or agency interaction.
• Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related field

Travel Time:

25% - 50%

Physical Attributes:

Bending at Waist, Carrying, Crouching, Handling, Hearing, Kneeling, Lifting, Other, Pushing, Reaching, Seeing, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

50% walking, 25% standing, 25% sitting

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $46,000-$128,000.*

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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