Environmental Specialist 2 (20043445)
Ohio EPA
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Job summary
Ohio EPA in Dayton is seeking an Environmental Specialist 2 to join the DERR team in the Southwest District Office.
You will evaluate hydrogeologic settings at hazardous waste sites, review site conditions and data, and provide technical assistance to the voluntary action program, consultants, and officials. You will review remedial plans and ensure work aligns with approved standards and regulations.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of hydrogeology principles and groundwater remediation concepts.
- Experience with regulatory compliance, site investigations and environmental assessments.
- Ability to analyze plans, drawings and specifications for remedial activities.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate hydrogeologic setting of hazardous waste sites and assess contamination extent.
- Review site conditions, groundwater sampling plans, water quality data, and reports.
- Provide technical assistance to voluntary action program participants and stakeholders.
- Review plans and specifications for remedial activities and ensure compliance with approvals.
- Monitor laws, regulations, and standards; serve as expert witness if required.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest environmental specialist in the Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) at our Southwest District Office in Montgomery County.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest environmental specialist in the Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) at our Southwest District Office in Montgomery County.
In your new position as an environmental specialist, you will evaluate the hydrogeologic setting of hazardous waste sites to determine the nature and extent of groundwater contamination and appropriate remedial measures necessary to restore groundwater and minimize contaminant migration. You will review site-specific conditions, groundwater sampling plans, water quality data, investigative reports, feasibility studies, and engineering design plans involving site cleanup.
You are going to provide technical assistance on hydrogeologic matters to participants in the state’s voluntary action program, the regulated community, consultants, and government officials regarding applicable federal and state laws, regulations, and division policy and guidance.
You’ll be reviewing plans, drawings, and specifications for the construction, operation, and maintenance of remedial activities at assigned sites – and make sure the associated activities are carried out in accordance with approved plans and specifications.
You’ll also review new or revised laws, regulations, guidelines, policies and standards – and make recommendations for their efficient implementation and further modification. You’ll serve as an expert witness for Ohio EPA and the Ohio Attorney General as required by litigation resulting from these activities.
- Evaluate hydrogeologic setting of hazardous waste sites.
- Review site-specific conditions, groundwater sampling plans, water quality data, etc.
- Provide technical assistance to voluntary action program participants, regulated community, consultants, etc.
- Review plans, drawings, and specifications for the construction, operation, and maintenance of remedial activities.
- Review laws, regulations, guidelines, policies, and standards.
- GEOLOGIST PREFERRED
- 12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861.
- OR 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.
- 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.
Environmental Services, Auditing, Law, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection, Equipment Operations, Reasoning, Written Communication, Verbal Communication, Customer Focus
Erika Carleski
Ohio EPA Southwest District Of
United States of America-OHIO-Montgomery County-Dayton
$31.47 - $46.08
Full-time
Classified
OCSEA
Auditing, Environmental Services, Equipment Operations, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection, Law
Customer Focus, Reasoning, Verbal Communication, Written Communication
Ohio EPA Environmental Specialist 2
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.
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