Environmental Specialist 2 (20047964) - Hybrid

Most positions offer the flexibility of a hybrid schedule that combines working from home with regular in-office and/or field work. In-person work requirements may change for training, meetings, and other operational needs.

What we need:

Ohio EPA Environmental Specialist

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 the Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC), working at our central office in Columbus.

Ready for more? Let’s do this!

As Ohio EPA’s environmental specialist, you’ll provide technical assistance, guidance, and consultation to local air agencies, government bodies, various firms, and the public on the aspects of DAPC’s asbestos program. You’ll perform surveillance, inspections, and investigations statewide regarding asbestos abatement for compliance with regulations and policies, independently conducting investigations of citizen complaints to determine the appropriate corrective course of actions. You’ll help review the corrective action work plans submitted by industry personnel relating to asbestos abatement specifications.

Additionally, you’ll assist with administering the open burning program, including open burning permission processing, responding to inquiries, and open burning complaints. You’ll conduct the technical review of enforcement cases, prepare documents for case resolution and participate in settlement hearings. You’ll coordinate with the Environmental Health and Safety Manager with the asbestos respirator fit test program, ensuring our asbestos staff are up-to-date on their testing.

Back on the regulations side, you’ll prepare technical support documentation for new regulations, agency rules, and procedures that relate to Ohio EPA’s air program. Along with that, you’ll assist in the processing of asbestos notifications, public inquiries, and file review requests with the Compliance and Enforcement Section.

Here’s the condensed version.

• Provide technical assistance, guidance, and consultation to external and internal clients relative to all aspects of the asbestos program.

• Perform surveillance, inspections, and investigations statewide regarding asbestos abatement for compliance with regulations and policies.

• Assist with administering the open burning program, including open burning permission processing and open burning complaints.

• Prepare technical support documentation for new regulations, agency rules, and procedures.

• Assist with processing of asbestos notifications, public inquiries, and file review requests.

Apply today, and let’s talk!

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.
• 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.

Job Skills: Environmental Services, Regulatory Compliance, Organizing and Planning, Interpreting Data, Customer Focus

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.