Location: Logan,OH, USA
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:
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 join our team as an environmental specialist with the Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) at our Southwest District Office in Hocking County.
This opportunity aims for the sky!
In this role you'll serve as an emissions monitoring specialist for air pollution sources. You'll install, operate, maintain, and calibrate sensitive air monitoring equipment, including high volume particulate samplers and continuous monitors, at regulated facilities.
You'll assist with collating, analyzing and reporting air quality data and completing accurate logs and reports. We'll rely on you to report on the status of monitoring activities, internal and external audits, and quality assurance/quality control activities according to DAPC's standards and policies.
As required, you'll get to conduct investigations of air pollution complaints, prepare your findings and recommend resolutions and corrective actions to DAPC management.
Let's recap the job basics.
* Install, operate, and calibrate air monitoring equipment.
* Assist with collating, analyzing and reporting air quality data.
* Keep appropriate logs and records.
* Ensure quality data collection, review and reporting.
* Report on monitoring activities, audits, and quality assurance/control events.
Take your career upward and apply today!
4 yrs. trg. or 4 yrs. exp. in position involving geology or hydrology, engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science &/or other comparable physical or health science field, earth science &/or urban & regional planning, 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 field.
* Or positions involved in providing financial, technical & administrative assistance for planning, design & implementation of environmental infrastructure & pollution abatement, & prevention projects, applicants must have completed undergraduate core coursework in business/public administration, public relations/marketing, political science or communications, or have 4 yrs. exp. in position involving public contact to explain policies, procedures & programs of agency, writing of promotional &/or explanatory publications & materials, budgeting, contract administration & working with others on team projects. Note: For all positions engaged in field work, applicants must be able to provide own transportation. New employees in EPA's solid waste program, excluding those in the solid waste planning unit, must obtain a sanitarian-in-training certificate during their probationary period.
* Or 12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861.
* Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above.
Job Skills: Environmental Services, Compliance Enforcement Professional Skills: Customer Focus, Attention to Detail, and Critical Thinker.