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Environmental Protection Specialist

Marion, IN

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Security Clearance: None

Summary

The Environmental Protection Specialist is responsible for specific regulatory compliance programs, including maintenance of plans and permits, regulatory reporting, and issue tracking. Generally, work is auxiliary to higher grade environmental personnel. The GEMS coordinator has overall program management activity oversite. This position is located at the Marion, Indiana VA Medical Center.

Duties

Environmental Protection Specialists plays a critical role in planning and administering environmental programs. Environmental Protection programs deals with all environmental impacts of human activities on the air, land, water, and other media. Environmental Protection programs are designed to ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws for water quality, storage of regulated substances (e.g. petroleum products, chemicals, and wastes), among other areas, and to alleviate the adverse impacts of human activities on the environment. Environmental Protection specialists supports the VA's Green Environmental Management System (GEMS) implementation and applies specialized knowledge of one or more programs or functional area of environmental protection work, but does not require full professional competence in environmental engineering or science.

Major Duties:

Coordinates the efforts of staff involved with the GEMS program to ensure that the program is developed and implemented in accordance with VHA and VA medical center policy and guidance.
Ensures that GEMS findings, conclusions, and inspection results lead to continual improvement of environmental programs.
Assists in the development of facility wide goals and policies.
Participates in the national-level GEMS committees, as well as liaising with other inspectors/surveyors.
Leads site inspections at a variety of sites, hazardous waste disposal sites, transport locations, or storage areas where the problems may not be easily identified or conventional in nature.
Evaluates work practices, determines compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and develops changes to control or eliminate potential or existing hazards or violations.
Investigates routine violations of all environmental laws and prepares abatement actions and reports.
Facilitates the interaction of complex relationships between human health, ecosystems, environmental, medical, and natural resource programs to meet federal and state mandated guidelines.
Gathers and examines evidence of violations; prepares warning letters, complaints, administrative orders, etc. and assembles case files for civil and criminal actions.
Provides a technical review of every construction and renovation project, significant maintenance, and repair work planned for the facilities.
Leads internal audits of the environmental compliance programs.
Develops and implements custom facility and service specific environmental policies, procedures and systems.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm(Subject to change depending on the needs of the agency).
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Environmental Protection Specialist/PD00161-0 and PD00162-0
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required