Location: Bowling Green,OH, USA
What We Need YOU To Do:
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest environmental specialist in the Division of Surface Water (DSW) at our Northwest District Office in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Looking to help your career and the environment? We got you!
As environmental specialist, you'll work to ensure regional waste treatment and disposal facilities are operating in compliance with agency permits and following state and federal regulations.
In the field, you'll inspect existing municipal, industrial, and semi-public wastewater treatment facilities to assure compliance and prepare enforcement actions as necessary to address non-compliance issues. At the desk, you'll prepare discharge and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for discharge sources including appropriate limitations and monitoring requirements.
You'll review and process permit to install (PTI) applications, engineering designs, sludge management plans, SSES and operational analyses for wastewater treatment systems for compliance with state and federal standards and guidelines.
As subject matter expert, you'll provide engineering and technical assistance to public officials, industry representatives, consultants, and the public regarding wastewater treatment and applicable federal and state regulations and requirements.
Let's revisit the job basics:
* Inspect existing wastewater treatment plants to determine compliance with state permits and regulations.
* Track compliance of wastewater treatment plants and prepares resolutions for non-compliance issues.
* Review and process permit to install applications, facility plans, and operational analyses.
* Write wastewater discharge permits including appropriate limitations and monitoring requirements.
* Provide technical assistance to internal and external constituents.
Make a move to join Ohio EPA and apply today!
* ENGINEERING PREFERRED
* 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, Equipment Operations, Clerical & Data Entry, Facilities Maintenance & Inspection, Reasoning, Customer Focus