Environmental Specialist

Agency Contact

Erika Carleski

Ohio EPA Northwest District Of 347 North Dunbridge Road Bowling Green 43402

United States of America-OHIO-Wood County-Bowling Green

$33.52 - $49.18

Full-time

OCSEA

Technical

Skills:

Technical Documentation, Technical Writing, Engineering, Environmental Services, Equipment Operations, Project Management, Public Relations

Professional

Skills:

Customer Focus, Leading Others, Presenting, Reasoning, Verbal Communication, Written Communication

At the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, our primary goal is to protect the environment and public health by ensuring compliance with federal and state environmental laws.

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In this role, you’ll serve as a lead resource for district staff, providing guidance, training, and technical support on solid waste management and ensuring staff stays current on solid waste rules, policies, and procedures.

You’ll work independently to review engineering designs and peer technical reports for completeness and accuracy. In the field, you’ll conduct sampling and inspections at solid waste and C&DD facilities to observe operations and construction activities and assess compliance with state and federal rules.

Teamwork is also key, and you’ll collaborate across divisions and agency offices by participating in technical work groups, supporting enforcement actions as a subject matter expert, and assisting with public outreach and inquiries.

You’ll coordinate project tracking and prepare progress reports to ensure goals and objectives are achieved, and help coordinate and plan work commitments, including field inspections, permits, technical reports, and related documents.

Let’s highlight those key tasks:

• Provide technical support, training and guidance to district staff.
• Review peer reports to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Evaluate proposed designs for engineering soundness and compliance with solid waste regulations.
• Assess operations and construction activities for compliance.
• Prepare reports, permits, and compliance-related correspondence.

We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees. Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems (such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS) & Optional Deferred Compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)

• ENGINEERING PREFRRED
• 7 yrs. relevant programmatic exp.
• OR combination of education in an environmentally focused discipline or other job-related discipline & specific programmatic experience equaling 7 yrs.
• OR completion of undergraduate core coursework in an environmentally-related discipline; AND 3 yrs. relevant programmatic exp.
• OR 2 yrs. relevant programmatic experience as Environmental Supervisor, 85865.
• OR equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above.
• Note:
  
  New employees in OEPA’s solid waste program, excluding those in the solid waste planning unit, must obtain a sanitarian-in-training certificate during their probationary period.

Environmental Services, Engineering, Public Relations, Technical Writing, Technical Documentation, Project Management, Equipment Operations, Leading Others, Reasoning, Written Communication, Verbal Communication, Presenting, Customer Focus

The final candidate selected for the position will be required to undergo a criminal background check. Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an applicant from consideration for a position. An individual assessment of an applicant's prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

The Ohio Environmental Protections Agency is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not…