What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Analyst V - Emergency Response Section Chief position at Dept of Environmental Protect?
Who We Are:
The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) seeks to protect, preserve, and enhance Massachusetts’ environmental resources and create a clean energy future for all residents. Through the stewardship of open spaces, the protection of environmental resources, and the advancement of clean energy, EEA works tirelessly to make Massachusetts a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. Our commitment to environmental justice ensures that every resident, regardless of background or location, can live in a safe, clean environment and shares equally in the benefits of the clean energy transition.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) is the state agency responsible for ensuring clean air, land, and water. Our work impacts every aspect of people's lives and is critical to the health and wellbeing of our residents and visitors. MassDEP is the lead agency for safe management of toxics and hazardous materials, promotion of waste reduction and recycling, preservation of the state's wetlands and coastal resources, air quality monitoring and pollution reduction, and so much more.
Who We Are as an Employer:
At EEA, we create meaningful, inclusive opportunities that empower our employees to make a real difference in shaping the environmental future of Massachusetts. We foster a workplace culture where diversity is valued, innovation is encouraged, and collaboration thrives. Our employees play a vital role in advancing sustainability, environmental justice, and clean energy solutions, ensuring a positive and lasting impact on Massachusetts and its residents.
Description:
MassDEP seek applicants for the position of Environmental Analyst V - Emergency Response Section Chief within the Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup (BWSC). The Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup is charged with ensuring immediate and effective response to environmental emergencies, such as oil spills and chemical fires, as well as timely assessment and cleanup of hazardous waste sites by private parties responsible for them.
This position will be based in MassDEP’s Western Regional Office, Springfield, MA and will directly oversee the region’s emergency response section, ensuring time critical responses to oil and hazardous materials, supervising program staff responding to release events and overseeing immediate risk reduction activities. MassDEP's Western Regional Office serves 106 cities and towns situated in western Massachusetts.
Duties for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Supervise, direct and train staff. Manage staff work to ensure efficiency, productivity, quality, and timeliness. Conduct performance reviews.
- Participate in 24/7 ER On-Call rotations, providing direct oversight and supervision of MassDEP contractors during ER incidents and giving MassDEP approvals. Complete required training deemed necessary for MassDEP emergency responder staff.
- Coordinate, provide technical support to professional staff for both office and field related activities.
- Prepare documentation and conduct enforcement conferences and technical meetings and represent the Department at public meetings, when necessary.
- Oversee and execute enforcement actions when appropriate.
- Review and approve complex assessment and remediation plans, technical reports, and analytical data.
- Participate in the development of bureau-wide policies, program plan, operational practices, initiatives and methods of program evaluation.
- Coordination of Intra-Agency and Cross-Bureau correspondence, memoranda, technical reports, policy, enforcement documents and other technical or legal instruments.
- Provide information including applicability of regulations and policies to the regulated community and others.
- Maintain routine communication with supervisor(s) and staff.
- Provide expert testimony.
- For supervised staff, track and manage work products, meeting timelines and maintaining appropriate administrative record of events, correspondence, decisions, meetings, and other logs or records.
- Must express ideas clearly, both orally and in writing.
- Participate as appropriate in Bureau or Regional meetings and provide comment or input.
- Comply with all Department workplace rules, regulations, and policies.
- Perform other BWSC duties as directed by the BWSC Deputy Regional Director.
Preferred Qualifications at Hire:
- Extensive experience in responding to and managing releases of oil and hazardous materials to the environment.
- Current OSHA HAZWOPER certifications for General Site Worker (40 hours) and Hazardous Material Technician (24 hours).
- Training through ICS-400 under the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
- Experience with and knowledge of M.G.L. c. 21E, the Massachusetts Contingency Plan.
- Professional experience in environmental sciences as it relates to time-critical assessment and remediation of oil/hazardous materials releases and disposal sites.
- Supervisory experience.
- Experience working in an incident command system with public safety officials.
- Experience working in personal protective equipment (PPE) and using monitoring equipment.
- Knowledge of risk management and risk communication.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Valid driver’s license.
First consideration will be given to those applicants that apply within the first 14 days.
MINIMUM ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Education toward such a degree will be prorated on the basis of the proportion of the requirements actually competed.
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