Environmental Specialist

Organization

Agency Contact Name and Information:
Erika Carleski

Feb 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:

Clerical & Data Entry, Engineering, Environmental Services, Equipment Operations, Planning and Development, Public Relations, Training, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection

What We Need:

Environmental Specialist 2

What We Do:

At the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, 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:

Ohio EPA wants you to join our team as an environmental specialist with the Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) at our Central Office in Columbus, Ohio.

You’ll help ensure Ohioans have clean air. Not bad for a day’s work!

We’re looking for a motivated, collaborative person to support our responsibility to regulate industrial air quality. In this role, you’ll review and process a wide range of permits to install and operate for a range of industries—from electric utilities, renewable energy and data centers to food production, chemical and metals manufacturing, and more.

You’ll dig into facility emissions data, check it for accuracy, and run calculations using emission factors or mass balance methods. You’ll also visit regulated facilities to investigate air pollution issues, document findings, and help improve emissions factors along the way.

This job puts you in direct contact with the regulated community, giving you the chance to understand their operations, support compliance, and grow into an industry specific expert. When necessary, you’ll respond to citizen complaints about air pollution and provide technical assistance to industry staff, government officials, and the public.

Let’s breeze through those main points:

• Review and process air permits for a variety of industrial facilities.
• Review emissions data for accuracy and perform standard emissions calculations.
• Investigate regulated facilities to determine compliance with air pollution regulations.
• Connect with the regulated community to understand permitting and compliance needs and become an industry-specific expert.
• Investigate citizen complaints and provide technical assistance to constituents.

If you like variety, problem solving, and work that helps protect the environment, this is a great place to land. Apply today!

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 &…