Jean Waters
Sr. Community Service Associate
Nebraska Business Development Center
Jean Waters is a Senior Community Service Associate with the Nebraska Business Development Center. She works with businesses and organizations to increase energy efficiency and eliminate waste at the source. She helps companies with sustainability and Green Teams. Waters served as program manager for the Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx) specializing in environmental management systems, pollution prevention assessments, and environmental compliance for small to medium-sized industries.
Previously, Waters was an air toxics engineer and director of the Pollution Prevention Institute (PPI) at Kansas State University. At PPI she consulted individually with businesses and gave seminars on environmental management systems, air permits, including Title V permitting, and pollution prevention planning. Prior to joining PPI, Waters was a process engineer for Raytheon Aircraft and plant chemist for Koch Fiberglass, both in Wichita, Kansas.
Waters holds a Masters of Science degree in chemical engineering.