Environmental Specialist 2 (20046639, 20046820)

What We Need:

Ohio EPA 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:

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.  

We knew you’d be curious.

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 subjects 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.

Let’s review:

• 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.

Still reading? Let’s do this – 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.
• OR4 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, 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.

Job Skills:  Environmental Services, Engineering, Public Relations, Law, Technical Writing, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection, Planning and Development, Equipment Operations, Reasoning, Written Communication, Verbal Communication, Customer Focus

NOTE:  THIS POSITION MAY REQUIRE PARTICIPATION IN OHIO EPA'S MEDICAL MONITORING PROGRAM.

All answers to supplemental questions must be supported by the work experience/education provided on your application.  Attachments will not be accepted for this posting.  Official educational transcripts are required for post-high school educational accomplishments, coursework or degrees claimed on the application. Applicants will be required to submit an official transcript if they are selected for the position. Current Ohio EPA employees may be required to provide official educational transcripts.

Location:  220 E. Monument Ave., Suite 200, Dayton, Ohio 45402

Division:  Environmental Response and Revitalization

Background Check: The final candidate selected for the position will be required to undergo a criminal background check.  Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an applicant from consideration for a position.  An individual assessment of an applicant's prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

EEO Statement: The Ohio Environmental Protections Agency is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, national origin (ancestry), military status, disability, age (40 years of age or older), genetic information, sexual orientation, status as a parent during pregnancy and immediately after the birth of a child, status as a parent of a young child, or status as a foster parent as those are defined in applicable Ohio law, federal law, and any Executive Order, in admission or access to the operation of its programs, services, activities or its own employment practices.  Employment practices are any employment related decisions including, but not limited to hiring, layoff, transfer, termination, promotion, demotion, discipline, rate of compensation, eligibility for in-service training programs, or terms and conditions of employment.

ADA Statement: The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is committed to providing access, equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation, contact the Office of Human Resources at 614-644-2100 prior to testing or interviewing.

Ohio is a Disability Inclusion State and strives to be a model employer of individuals with disabilities. The State of Ohio is committed to providing access and inclusion and reasonable accommodation in its services, activities, programs and employment opportunities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws.

The State of Ohio is a drug-free workplace which prohibits the use of marijuana (recreational marijuana/non-medical cannabis). Please note, this position may be subject to additional restrictions pursuant to the State of Ohio Drug-Free Workplace Policy (HR-39), and as outlined in the posting.