Environmental Specialist

Organization

Agency Contact Name and Information :
Erika Carleski

Jan 24, 2026, 4:59:00 AM

Lazarus Government Center Box 1049 Columbus

United States of America-OHIO-Franklin County-Columbus

$30.55 - $44.74

Full-time

OCSEA

Technical

Skills:

Engineering, Environmental Services, Equipment Operations, Public Relations

Professional

Skills:

Customer Focus

What We Need:

Environmental Specialist 2

What We Do:

At Ohio EPA our primary goal is to protect the environment and public health. We do this by ensuring compliance with federal and state environmental laws.

What We Need YOU To Do:

We want you to be our newest environmental specialist in the Division of Surface Water (DSW) at our Central office in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Looking to help your career and the environment? Check this out!

We seek a conscientious person with the skills and drive to help protect Ohio’s waterways by monitoring municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities.

Your primary role is to inspect existing wastewater treatment facilities to ensure they are operating in compliance with state and federal requirements.

Your oversight includes review of required operation and maintenance reports from facilities to track their continued compliance with National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. When necessary, you will coordinate collection of discharge samples and data on plant performance.

With your commitment to excellent customer service, you'll promptly respond to and investigate citizen inquiries and complaints. You'll assist in preparing enforcement actions against sites to address non-compliance issues and participate in adjudication hearings, litigation, and appeal cases as needed.

As a subject matter expert, you will assist officials, industry, consultants, and the public with understanding wastewater treatment practices and regulatory requirements.

• Inspect wastewater treatment plants to determine compliance with state permits and regulations.
• Review facilities’ monitoring reports required by NPDES permits.
• Track permit compliance and prepare enforcement actions and correspondence.
• Respond to citizen inquiries and complaints.
• Provide technical assistance to internal and external constituents.

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full‑time and part‑time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website! 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)

* Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

• 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,…