Environmental Specialist

Agency Overview

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.

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

As DERR’s newest environmental specialist, you will perform district Site Coordinator and RCRA Inspector duties for assigned remedial action and hazardous waste handling facilities. You will review, prepare, 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 inspect facilities for compliance with state and federal regulations and permit requirements – and review and evaluate permit applications and requested modifications. You are going to identify possible pollution prevention alternatives, and investigate complaints, perform assessments of contaminated environmental or waste-related media, and conduct periodic inspections to verify compliance with existing permits and state and federal regulations.

You are going to plan and develop strategies for assisting responsible parties and hazardous waste facilities with non-compliance issues, identifying the need for and initiate necessary enforcement actions. You will provide technical assistance to Ohio EPA legal staff and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and, as necessary, provide testimony in legal proceedings and enforcement meetings, and engage with settlement negotiations.

• Perform district Site Coordinator and RCRA Inspector duties for assigned remedial action and hazardous waste handling facilities.
• Review, prepare, and implement work plans, sampling plans, reports, and technical memoranda.
• Inspect facilities for compliance with state and federal regulations and permit requirements.
• Plan and develop strategies for assisting responsible parties and hazardous waste facilities with non-compliance issues.
• Provide technical assistance to Ohio EPA legal staff and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

• 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)

• 12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861.
• 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.
• 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.

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Skills:

Environmental Services, Engineering, Public Relations, Law, Technical Writing, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection, Planning and Development, Equipment Operations, Reasoning, Written Communication,…