Job opening: Environmental Protection Specialist
Salary: $117 962 - 153 354 per year
Published at: Aug 15 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, within the Environmental Management Division. As an Environmental Protection Specialist, you will serve as the primary technical contact with other offices and divisions in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), in maintaining the Bureau's compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations.
Duties
As an Environmental Protection Specialist, you will:
Provide expert technical advice, guidance and recommendations, effectively communicating such to management and other technical specialists throughout the Bureau on critical environmental issues in the assigned specialty area (industrial wastewater and storm water compliance).
Develop procedures, manuals and other informational material in support of the environmental compliance programs.
Conduct environmental audits of BEP activities to ensure compliance with environmental laws. This includes special environmental risk analyses, value assessments, and/or other assessments and analyses relative to in-house and contract initiatives to provide a base for executive decisions on environmental matters.
Review engineering assessments of plans and specifications for new equipment to ensure that environmental factors have been given adequate consideration and needed environmental control devices are incorporated in the modification of existing equipment. Make recommendations to Manager for appropriate disposition.
Inspect and survey work places, processes and products for compliance with established environmental standards.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Specialized experience for the GS-13 level is one year of experience at the GS-12 level or equivalent that has equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes:
-Experience in developing, managing environmental programs, encompassing industrial wastewater pretreatment or sanitary wastewater treatment, and storm water management while ensuring compliance with local, State, and Federal environmental regulations. AND
-Serving as technical authority in matters concerning regulatory requirements that relate to industrial wastewater pretreatment or sanitary wastewater treatment, and storm water management; AND
-Leading or managing a team of employees that operate and maintain an industrial wastewater pretreatment plant or sanitary wastewater treatment plant; or managing a contract for the operations and maintenance of an industrial wastewater pretreatment plant or sanitary wastewater treatment plant.
In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-13, you must have been at the GS-12level for 52 weeks.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address Environmental Management Division
Administrative Resource Center
Parkersburg, WV 26101
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-7300
- Email: [email protected]
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