Environmental Compliance Specialist

Axiom Consultants; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/life insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Axiom Consultants, Inc. seeks an experienced Environmental Compliance Specialist to support NOAA OER.

The role focuses on ensuring expeditions and projects stay compliant with federal environmental laws, integrating regulatory requirements into planning to prevent delays and ensure legal conformity. Responsibilities include coordinating permits and documentation (MMPA, NEPA, ESA, MSA), reviewing CE and other documents, editing for clarity, and providing technical services to OER and OAR to

Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems and work in a team.
• Knowledge of environmental laws, regulations and policies.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate environmental compliance, permitting and documentation for expeditions and projects (MMPA, NEPA, ESA, MSA).
• Provide detailed technical reviews of compliance documents and CEs.
• Coordinate with COR/TPOC to resolve internal comments on draft documents.
• Edit and synthesize Environmental Compliance / EIS materials; present findings clearly.
• Revise NEPA and related policies and procedures; ensure compliance with federal procedures.
• Draft determinations regarding adequacy of analyses in project files; provide technical comments.

Skills

Strong communication

Problem solving

Team player

Environmental policy knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

This is a future/ general interest posting.

Axiom Consultants, Inc, is seeking an experienced Environmental Compliance Specialist to provide support to the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration (OER). The Environmental Compliance Specialist will provide the technical services and coordination required to ensure all OER expeditions and projects remain in full compliance with federal environmental statutes and programmatic mandates. This effort centers on the seamless integration of regulatory requirements into the operational planning cycle to prevent mission delays and ensure legal conformity.

Responsibilities Include

• Expedition Planning Coordination: Coordinating and implementing the environmental compliance, permitting, and programmatic documentation for OER expeditions and projects (aka packages), including all requirements surrounding the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (MSA), and other applicable federal and international environmental laws, regulations, and treaties.
• Technical Review: Providing detailed technical reviews of environmental compliance documents and Categorical Exclusions (CEs), in coordination with the COR and/or applicable TPOC in this instance including OAR National NEPA Coordinator (TPOC); and assessing documents for clarity, completeness, information and analysis quality, and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and internal federal procedures.
• Internal Consistency Coordination: Coordinating with the COR and/or applicable TPOC to identify and resolve internal comments on draft compliance documents.
• Technical Editing and Synthesis: Serving as the OER technical editor for the development of Environmental Compliance / Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) and permitting Assessments; conducting interviews with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to present technical materials in plain language and using effective graphics, tables, charts, etc.; and synthesizing results of best-available science on the impacts of OER activities that are the subject of the Assessment; and reviewing and editing materials submitted by SMEs for clarity, punctuation, grammar, content, and conformity to federal procedures.
• Policy and Procedure Revisions: Performing technical revisions and updates of OAR's NEPA and related environmental compliance policies and procedures based on knowledge or expertise in relevant environmental laws, regulations, policies, and legal precedence.
• Work Product Delivery: Drafting written determinations regarding the adequacy of the analysis levels documented in OER project files; providing technical comments on OER compliance documents; and delivering general programmatic comments for issues identified across multiple documents.
• Evaluation Planning: Coordinating the development of project and communications plans for new compliance and permit evaluations.
• Project Maintenance: Coordinating and maintaining consistency between multiple ongoing projects while resolving internal comments and providing document feedback.
• Compliance Assessments: Providing detailed technical reviews of compliance and permit documents to assess completeness, information and analysis quality, and compliance with environmental regulations; ESA, MMPA, and MSA.
• Technical Services: Providing environmental policy and procedural technical services to OER and OAR.
• Agency Revisions: Performing the revision and update of OER and OAR NEPA and other environmental policies and procedures.
• Program and Planning Services: Providing program and planning services for the documentation and implementation of OER NEPA and environmental compliance needs to facilitate OER funded expeditions

Minimum Requirements

• U.S. Citizen
• Be able to pass background screening prior to employment.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant area or equivalent years of education and experience.
• 4-6+ years of experience.
• Must have strong oral and written communication, problem-solving skills, and be a team player.

Benefits & Compensation

• Axiom offers competitive compensation packages including comprehensive medical/dental/life insurance and matching 401(k) contribution.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)