Jessica Gray
Vice President/Senior Chemical Engineer
Among many rewarding parts of my work, I particularly enjoy taking processes, approaches, and tools we’ve created for one project and adapting them to make other projects successful. It’s a win-win, enabling ERG and our clients to generate even more value from the original work, while enhancing benefits and reducing costs in many other projects.
Jessica Gray, an ERG vice president, is a licensed professional engineer with more than 20 years of experience managing inspections, compliance assistance, and enforcement case support for a wide variety of federal and state programs and projects. A skilled contract and project manager, Jessica leads ERG’s Permitting, Compliance, and Enforcement Group and manages multiple large-scale contracts and dozens of projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state clients.
Jessica has directly managed more than 1,000 single media and multimedia inspections covering the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Oil Pollution Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act; participated in more than 25 CWA inspections of combined sewer systems, construction stormwater sites, and coal mines; and participated in more than 15 CAA inspections of natural gas pipeline transmission stations and petroleum refineries. She has also managed over 50 enforcement cases (including developing information collection requests, conducting site visits, and evaluating pollution control technology costs). As manager of ERG’s inspector training program, she has ensured that over 80 ERG inspectors have successfully obtained and maintained their credentials by completing the EPA’s required initial and annual refresher training.
In the area compliance assistance, Jessica has supported the development of guidance documents and developed numerous training programs for EPA, state inspectors, and regulated community. She has also managed more than 20 large-scale sampling programs to evaluate compliance with the CWA, RCRA, and SDWA, and she has supported sampling to assess levels of opioids, stimulants, and their metabolites, as well as SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater.
Jessica holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in civil engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Outside work, she enjoys traveling with her family, reading, and staying active by running and playing soccer.