Toxicologist -P11​/Hazardous Waste Program

Toxicologist 10-P11

This position is responsible for providing toxicological and risk assessment to the state hazardous waste management program, under Part 111, Hazardous Waste Management, of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, 1994 PA 451, as amended (NREPA). The program controls and regulates toxic substances in the environment, related to the management and disposal of hazardous waste, and remedial activities for release of contaminants associated with hazardous waste facilities.

The focus of this position is on actual and potential risks due to releases of toxic substances in various media such as air, ground and surface water, soils, waste, and wastewater.

This position is responsible for assessing hazards and risks at sites of environmental contamination, developing cleanup criteria for emerging contaminants, new hazardous substances, and evaluating human health, ecological, and environmental risks from toxic substances associated with Part 111 licensing, compliance monitoring, enforcement, and remedial activities required for closure and corrective action.

This position provides assistance to Division staff regarding risk assessment issues related to Part 111, Part 201, Environmental Remediation, and Part 31, Water Resources Protection, of NREPA, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), including the application of the Part 201 criteria. It also provides toxicological and risk assessment assistance to the regulated community and general public.

• Assess hazards and risks at sites of environmental contamination.
• Develop cleanup criteria for emerging contaminants and new hazardous substances.
• Evaluate human health, ecological, and environmental risks from toxic substances related to Part 111 licensing and related activities.
• Assist Division staff with risk assessment issues related to Part 111, Part 201, and Part 31.
• Provide toxicological and risk assessment assistance to the regulated community and general public.

This position serves as the recognized resource for toxicological and risk assessment expertise to the state hazardous waste management program, under Part 111, Hazardous Waste Management of NREPA. The focus is on complex and/or controversial actual and potential risks due to releases of toxic substances in various media such as air, ground and surface water, soils, waste, and wastewater.

The position is responsible for assessing hazards and risks at sites of environmental contamination, developing cleanup criteria for emerging contaminants, new hazardous substances, and evaluating human health, ecological, and environmental risks from toxic substances associated with Part 111 licensing, compliance monitoring, enforcement, and remedial activities required for closure and corrective action.

As the recognized resource, this position provides toxicological expertise to Division staff regarding risk assessment issues related to Part 111, Part 201, Environmental Remediation, and Part 31, Water Resources Protection of NERPA and RCRA, including the application of the Part 201 criteria. It also provides toxicological and risk assessment expertise for the regulated community and general public.

• Assess hazards and risks at sites of environmental contamination.
• Develop cleanup criteria for emerging contaminants and new hazardous substances.
• Evaluate human health, ecological, and environmental risks from toxic substances related to Part 111 licensing and related activities.
• Provide toxicological expertise to Division staff related to Part 111, Part 201, and Part 31.
• Provide toxicological and risk assessment expertise to the regulated community and general public.

• Toxicologist 10:
  Master’s degree in toxicology or a related physical, biological, or environmental science with the specified credit requirements (10 semester credits in toxicology, human or environmental risk assessment, pharmacology, pathology, environmental stress, mechanisms or modes of chemical action on living organisms; plus 10 semester credits in areas such as molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, anatomy, epidemiology, industrial hygiene, zoology, ecology, biology, limnology, environmental science, soil science, physiology, histology, statistics, and chemical fate and transport).
• Toxicologist 11:
  PhD in toxicology or a related physical, biological, or environmental science with the specified credit requirements (10 semester credits in toxicology or related fields; plus 10 semester credits in related areas).

• Toxicologist 10:
  No specific type or amount of experience required.
• Toxicologist 11:
  Two years of professional experience in assessing and controlling the impact of toxic substances on human health and the environment, equivalent to a Toxicologist, including one year equivalent to a Toxicologist 10.
• Toxicologist 12:
  Three years of professional experience in assessing and controlling the impact of toxic substances on human health and the environment, equivalent to a…