Environmental Scientist - Part Time

This position is located in the Bureau of Corrective Actions, Petroleum Fund Program and serves as a Case Manager. The Petroleum Fund Program provides reimbursement of eligible costs for cleanups of discharges from regulated and non-regulated petroleum storage tanks, and reports these costs to the Board for Cleaning Up Discharges of Petroleum. The primary responsibilities of this position are to conduct review of records for enrollment eligibility, coverage determinations, and reimbursement of qualifying costs.

In addition, this position acts as an equipment inspector, performing site visits to verify the presence and condition of remediation equipment.

Environmental Scientists perform program research, planning and development, permitting, compliance monitoring, inspections/enforcement, and technical support services in relation to air, water, federal facilities, corrective action, mining, biology and waste environmental programs.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in the physical, natural resource or life sciences, engineering or closely related field and three years of professional environmental experience involving environmental program research and planning.
• Graduation from high school or equivalent and five years of professional environmental experience as described above.
• One year of experience as an Environmental Scientist 2 in Nevada State service.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

• Develop program documents such as the annual program plan, quarterly activities report, environmental assessments, technical reports and environmental impact statements in accordance with federal and State requirements; review existing program standards; research, compile and verify available data; analyze data and trends; propose new or revised standards; develop regulations, procedures and protocols; draft legislation; provide information and technical assistance to the general public and regulated community;
  
  develop and provide training; prepare various reports for planning; conduct public hearings; justify with fact sheets and discussion as required.
• Conduct research using technical, scientific and historical data to provide a tool for administrative and resource planning and decision making; coordinate with other agencies involved in implementation of environmental programs; represent the division or agency at meetings; participate in federal, State and local policy and regulation development.
• Develop grant applications, proposals for performance, grant workplans, budgets and applications using federal and State policies and procedures; negotiate commitments; solicit project proposals; negotiate workplans; draft contract documents and amendments; monitor grant performance, expenditures and contracts.
• Develop and draft permits for industry and governmental entities; compile facility data; examine and adapt the permit to applicable standards; establish limitations; review permits for regulatory compliance; perform public permit notification and final permit issuance.
• Perform compliance monitoring; analyze submitted environmental reports in relation to technical, scientific and legal criteria and make recommendations to ensure compliance; take periodic samples according to established protocol and transport to appropriate laboratories; operate monitoring equipment; evaluate new and existing sample sites.
• Respond to environmental complaints through investigation, determination of complaint validity and appropriate action.
• Conduct inspections to ensure compliance with federal, State and local regulations; inspect pollution control equipment, take or observe samples; determine violations; make a detailed report and recommendation; determine enforcement action; prepare notices of violation; negotiate resolutions and civil penalties; serve as the state’s expert witness.
• Perform various technical services required to carry out duties, including calculating pollutant concentrations, calibrating sampling equipment and preparing monitoring sites.
• Input and access data to and from a national data system maintained by the EPA; perform computer modeling; evaluate environmental data and make decisions.
• Incumbents are primarily responsible for complex planning, enforcement, contract coordination, pollution prevention, monitoring and/or permitting functions within a program area; provide work direction to lower-level staff; work independently and are accountable.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

• Working knowledge of legal procedures related to enforcement of pollution control, EPA and other federal and State grant requirements.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical, scientific, environmental, regulatory and legal information verbally and in writing to subordinates, individuals and groups with varying backgrounds.
• Evaluate potential radiological, chemical and/or biological hazards and determine proper actions to…