<p>What We Need YOU To Do:</p> <p>The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants you to be our newest environmental specialist with the Office of Emergency Response (OER) at our Northwest District Office in Wood County.</p> <p>We need you.</p> <p>As environmental specialist, you'll be part of our Emergency Response Program responding to and investigating releases of hazardous materials or liquids into the environment. You'll identify the responsible parties and activate and oversee emergency response contractors to contain and clean up the release as required under state law to protect the public and environment.</p> <p>You'll manage collection of environmental samples to document releases and assess environmental impacts. You'll coordinate remedial actions with the responsible parties, agency divisions, and government agencies to ensure adequate communication and compliance with applicable policy, procedure, and regulatory requirements. You'll prepare and file spill reports and provide oversight for field activities.</p> <p>You'll provide technical assistance to the regulated community, consultants, and governmental officials and participate in enforcement meetings, litigation proceedings, and negotiations.</p> <p>That's a lot. Let's recap.:</p> <ul> <li>Respond to and conduct civil investigations into the releases of hazardous materials and liquids. </li><li>Identify and advise responsible parties of their requirements to contain and remediate releases. </li><li>Coordinate OER activities with responsible parties, agency divisions, local, state, and federal agencies and response organizations. </li><li>Collect environmental samples to document releases and assess environmental impacts. </li><li>Assist internal and external parties on spill investigations, remediation, enforcement, mitigation and prevention. </li></ul> <p>More questions? Let us know!</p> <ul> <li>12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861. </li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li><li>Job Skills: Environmental Services, Public Relations, Investigation, Equipment Operations, Written Communication, Customer Focus </li></ul>