Spill Responder; Environmental Specialist ; In Training

Spill Responder (Environmental Specialist
3) (In Training)

Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen

The Department of Ecology is hiring a Spill Responder (Environmental Specialist
3) (In Training) within the Spill Prevention, Preparedness, and Response program.

Location:

• Northwest Region Office in Shoreline, WA.
• The salary listed includes 5% premium pay due to the position location in King County.
• Must live within a 60-minute commuting distance of the Northwest Region Office.
• This position is eligible for a 10% Spill Response Assignment Pay once all training requirements and certifications are met and maintained. This position also has periods of mandatory overtime. Additionally, this position is required to participate in an after-hour on-call duty rotation.

Schedule:

• This position is eligible for telework and flexible schedule options.
• This position requires field work and emergency response, while there is some office work and you may telework most of your office work time with occasional in-person meetings and activities.
• Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change.

Application Timeline:

• Apply by July 12, 2026.

• Applications submitted after the date above may not be reviewed unless additional qualified applicants are needed.

In this role, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team and use science to solve complex environmental challenges. Working with other federal, state, local and tribal response partners, you will serve as Ecology's State On-Scene Coordinator leading the response and cleanup of complex environmental spills. Your efforts will result in immediate improvements to the safety of Washington residents and our environment.

What you will do:

• Conduct responses to spills of oil and hazardous substances, abandoned waste, fish kills and other environmental and human health emergencies.
• Serve as initial incident commander and State On-Scene Coordinator for spills of petroleum products and hazardous materials on water and land.
• Conduct operations to control, contain and cleanup spills, investigate the cause of spills and response actions taken by parties responsible for spills, directs environmental response contractors, and coordinates responses with appropriate private, local, state and federal representatives involved.
• Open containers of unknowns, take samples, overpack and transport abandoned chemical wastes for final disposal.
• Offer technical assistance and limited regulatory interpretation to parties involved in spill incidents and drug lab cleanups.
• Prepare and complete all documentation and reporting associated with such incidents.

For detailed information on how we calculate experience, please visit our Recruitment website.

To qualify at the Environmental Specialist 2 level (In-Training)

Pay Range 47 (including the 5% location pay) $4,515 - $6,067 monthly

Five (5) years of combined experience and/or education.

Experience: Performing environmental-based work, OR work related to any of the following:

• Incident Command and Emergency Response Leadership experience serving as an initial Incident Commander or State On-Scene Coordinator, applying Incident Command System (ICS) principles to manage complex oil and hazardous materials incidents involving multiple agencies and competing priorities.
• Advanced Spill Response and Hazardous Materials Operations skill in planning, directing, and performing hands-on response actions for oil spills, hazardous substance releases, abandoned waste, and illegal drug manufacturing facilities, including containment, cleanup, and mitigation in high-risk environments.
• Hazard Identification, Sampling, and Field Analysis knowledge of hazardous substance identification, sampling techniques, field testing, and hazard classification, including safe handling of unknown materials and interpretation of monitoring data against health-based and regulatory standards.
• Dangerous Waste Management and Regulatory Compliance knowledge of federal and state dangerous waste regulations and ability to ensure compliant waste handling, storage, transportation, disposal, inventory tracking, reporting, and emergency response planning.
• Interagency and Law…