Environmental Specialist 2 (20043435)

What We Need YOU To Do:

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest environmental specialist in the Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) at our Southeast District Office in Hocking County.

We knew you'd be interested.

In your new role, you will perform district inspector and coordinator duties for assigned hazardous waste handling facilities and remedial action sites, while making sure facilities are following state and federal regulations and RCRA permit requirements. You will evaluate compliance with permit conditions and identify possible pollution prevention alternatives.

You will review and implement work plans, sampling plans, reports, and technical memoranda associated with the investigation of environmental releases from hazardous waste sites, including federal facilities, sites participating in the Voluntary Action Program (VAP), and sites subject to remediation under state, CERCLA, or RCRA authorities.

You will provide technical assistance to the regulated community, consultants, and governmental officials regarding applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and division policy and guidance. You are also going to participate in public meetings and help our Office of Communications and Outreach respond to media inquiries.

As environmental specialist, you will also review new or revised laws, regulations, guidelines, policies, and standards to make recommendations for their efficient implementation.

Let's recap:

• Perform district inspector and coordinator duties for hazardous waste handling facilities.

• Make sure facilities are following state and federal regulations for RCRA permit requirements.

• Review and implement work plans, sampling plans, etc. associated with the investigation of environmental releases from hazardous waste sites (VAP, CERCLA, RCRA).

• Provide technical assistance to the regulated community, consultants, and governmental officials.

• Review new or revised laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies.

What are you waiting for? Let's do this!

• 12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861.
• OR 4 yrs. trg. or 4 yrs. exp. in position involving engineering or chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science, geology or hydrogeology &/or other comparable physical or health science field &/or mathematics which included responsibility for conducting compliance monitoring surveys &/or inspections/reviews or investigations, or review of permit applications relative to oil & gas well operations or injection, annular disposal & saltwater injection wells & enhanced recovery projects or coal mining, or solid/hazardous waste sites or industrial & municipal wastewater dischargers, or collecting, compiling & preparing various environmental assessments, evaluations, reports & related documents. Training & experience must be commensurate with duties to be assigned.
• OR baccalaureate degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science, earth science &/or urban & regional planning, geology or other comparable physical or health science fields, with training to be commensurate with duties to be assigned.
• THIS POSITION MAY REQUIRE PARTICIPATION IN OHIO EPA'S MEDICAL MONITORING PROGRAM.

Job Skills: Environmental Services, Engineering, Facilities Maintenance and Inspection, Public Relations, Planning and Development, Equipment Operations, Reasoning, Verbal Communication, Written Communication, Customer Focus