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What We Need:

Ohio EPA Environmental Specialist 2

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 Materials and Waste Management (DMWM), working at our Northeast Office in Summit County.

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As Ohio EPA's environmental specialist, you'll work with a team in DMWM ensuring waste management facilities are constructed and operated in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. While performing field work, you will be traveling to all of Ohio's counties to conduct site inspections. When not in the field, you'll review technical documents and prepare reports pertaining to existing and proposed DMWM facilities.

You'll perform inspections of solid waste, infectious waste, construction, and demolition facilities, conducting complaint investigations to evaluate compliance with state regulations and approved permits. You'll prepare correspondence summarizing inspection findings, and plan and develop strategies for bringing about compliance. Also, you'll work independently to review technical reports, applications, and other documents pertaining to existing and proposed DMWM facilities and sites.

Additionally, you'll evaluate health districts authorized to administer and enforce Ohio's solid waste, infectious waste, construction, and demolition debris programs to determine their compliance with state standards, as well as participate on Agency and division technical workgroups, in enforcement cases as a technical expert, and perform various public relation tasks. You'll provide technical assistance to boards of health, municipal officials, county commissioners, township trustees, and engineers.

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• Perform inspections of various facilities, conducting complaint investigations to evaluate compliance with state regulations and approved permits.
• Prepare correspondence summarizing inspection findings.
• Plan and develop strategies for bringing about compliance.
• Work independently to review technical reports, applications, and other documents.
• Evaluate health districts authorized to administer and enforce Ohio's solid waste, infectious waste, construction, and demolition debris programs.
• Provide technical assistance to boards of health, municipal officials, county commissioners, etc.

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What's In It For You:

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

• Quality, affordable, and competitive medical benefits are offered through the available Ohio Med plans.

Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance

• Dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums are free after completed eligibility period . Length of eligibility period is dependent on union representation.

Time Away From Work and Work/Life Balance

• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, and sick leave
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth/Adoption leave

Employee Development Funds

• The State of Ohio offers a variety of educational and professional development funding that varies based on whether you are a union-exempt employee or a union-represented employee.

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System

• OPERS is the retirement system for State of Ohio employees. The employee contributes 10% of their salary towards their retirement. The employer contributes an amount equal to 14% of the employee's salary. Visit the OPERS website for more information.

Deferred Compensation

• The Ohio Deferred Compensation program is a 457(b) voluntary retirement savings plan. Visit the Ohio Deferred Compensation website for more information.

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, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection, Interpreting Data, Organizing and Planning, Written Communication, Customer Focus