Environmental Specialist 2 (20039180) - Hybrid

What We Need YOU To Do:

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to join our team as an Environmental Specialist with the Division of Drinking and Ground Waters (DDAGW) at our Central Office in downtown Columbus.

Got your attention? Let's do this!

In this role you'll implement water and wastewater operator certification programs within DDAGW and coordinate program activities with the Operator Certification Advisory Council, Division of Surface Water, and other agencies to ensure compliance with program standards, procedures, and state and federal laws.

You'll assist in drafting and developing statewide guidelines, policies, and procedures to ensure consistent implementation of operator certification programs for public drinking water systems/wastewater works. You'll collect and review information on operator certification as well as new or revised operator certification laws, regulations, guidelines, standards, and data.

To ensure program standards, you'll review and evaluate operator certification applications for eligibility and assist with validating examinations. You'll maintain records for the certification program and professional certified operators and track continuing education training and other requirements for certificate renewals.

We'll count on you to provide technical guidance and resources to engineers, professional operators, government officials, and private firms regarding laws, regulations, practices, and procedures for operator certification.

Let's run that all back:

• Review and evaluate applications for professional operator certification.
• Coordinate certification activities with the Operator Certification Advisory Council.
• Draft and develop statewide guidelines, policies, and procedures to ensure consistent certification program implementation.
• Review certification applications and track continuing education training and other requirements for certificate renewals.
• Provide technical guidance to operators, governmental officials, and industry representatives on professional operator certification processes and regulations.

This is a 'certified' opportunity to join Ohio EPA . Let's go!

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.

Qualifications

• 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, Engineering, Public Relations, Interviewing, Equipment Operations, Policy Direction, Organizing and Planning, Interpreting Data, Written Communication, Customer Focus