Environmental Specialist 3 (20039178)

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 Drinking and Groundwater (DDAGW) in our Central Office in Columbus.

Ah, there you are.

As Ohio EPA’s environmental specialist, you’ll serve as the statewide lead for the coordination and oversight of DDAGW’s division specific inspector training and operator certification program. You’ll provide general technical guidance, consultation, and training to personnel regarding the Division’s programs for operator certification, sanitary surveys, and facility evaluation. You’ll coordinate operator certification activities with the Operator Certification Advisory Council, the Division of Surface Water and with other agencies to ensure adequate communications and compliance with program standards. You’ll also assist in drafting and developing statewide guidelines and procedures.

Additionally, you’ll schedule and track activities performed by staff regarding the division’s statewide inspection audit program and the operator certification program, as well as acting as the lead in developing and overseeing a statewide program to ensure significant deficiencies and violations are resolved properly. You’ll coordinate and facilitate communication between districts by acting as the liaison for the division’s inspector consistency workgroup and participate on the sanitary survey workgroup. You’ll also assist in developing, updating, and implementing the division’s sanitary survey manual. You’ll get to perform specially assigned inspections of public water systems and prepare written reports and letters resulting from such activities.

• Let’s make sure we didn’t miss anything.

  • Development, coordination, and oversight of DDAGW’s division specific inspector training program.
  • Scheduling and tracking of division’s statewide inspection audit program.
  • Act as lead in developing and overseeing statewide program to ensure significant deficiencies and violations are resolved in accordance with division policies.
  • Act as lead in performing district requested reviews of contingency plans.
  • Act as the lead in maintaining the division’s Emergency Response Plan.
  • Coordinate, facilitate, and provide communication between districts by acting as the liaison for the division’s inspector consistency workgroup.
  • Take the lead in reviewing division program policies and procedures to ensure statewide uniformity and consistency in the district application of the state drinking water rules and regulations.

  
  Apply today, and let’s talk!

• 7 yrs. relevant programmatic exp.

• Or completion of undergraduate core coursework in environmentally-related discipline; 3 yrs. relevant programmatic exp.

• Or 2 yrs. relevant programmatic experience as Environmental Supervisor, 85865.

• Or combination of education in environmentally focused discipline or other job-related discipline & specific programmatic experience equaling 7 yrs.

• Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above.

Job Skills: Environmental Services, Regulatory Compliance Professional Skills: Customer Focus, Leading others, and Developing Others

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: Central Office- 50 W. Town Street, Columbus, OH. 43215

Division: Drinking and Ground Waters

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.