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Salary- $54,108.00 – $70,956.00 Annually

What makes this role unique?

This work entails technical challenges and building sustainable and collaborative relationships with industry and other public agencies, ports, tribes, and environmental and citizen groups. In this role you will negotiate and oversee administrative orders and consent decrees and keep the community informed and engaged.

What you will do:

  • Manage the investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites for compliance and completeness with laws and regulations including performing field visits and verification sampling.
  • Review and provide technical comments on Remedial Investigations, Feasibility Studies, Cleanup Action Plans, Health and Safety Plans, post cleanup compliance monitoring, and Quality Assurance/Quality Control documents.
  • Apply expertise on environmental remediation processes to evaluate cleanup plans, environmental data, and results.
  • Provide basic project management, review and approve work plans, status reports, develop schedules and budgets, oversee contractors, grants, participate and manage public outreach, and legal documents.
  • Negotiate issues and enforce administrative orders and inter-agency agreements.

Required Qualifications:

Experience for both required and desired qualifications can be gained through various combinations of formal professional employment, educational and volunteer experience. See below for how you may qualify. 

Nine (9) years of combined experience and education: 

Experience: professional-level experience in environmental analysis or control, or environmental planning. 

Experience may include a combination of the following:

  • Managing the investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites for compliance and completeness with laws and regulations including performing field visits and verification sampling.
  • Reviewing and providing technical comments on Remedial Investigations, Feasibility Studies, Cleanup Action Plans, Health and Safety Plans, post cleanup compliance monitoring, and Quality Assurance/Quality Control documents.
  • Appling expertise on environmental remediation processes to evaluate cleanup plans, environmental data, and results.
  • Providing basic project management, reviewing and approving work plans, status reports, developing schedules and budgets, overseeing contractors, grants, participating and managing public outreach, and legal documents.
  • Negotiating issues and enforcing administrative orders and inter-agency agreements.

Education: Involving a major study in environmental, physical, or one of the natural sciences, environmental planning or other allied field.

All experience and education combinations that meet the requirements for this position:

Possible Combinations

College credit hours or degree

Years of required experience – as listed above.

Combination 1

No college credit hours or degree

9 years of experience

Combination 2

30-59 semester or 45-89 quarter credits.

8 years of experience

Combination 3

60-89 semester or 90-134 quarter credits (AA degree).

7 years of experience

Combination 4

90-119 semester or 135-179 quarter credits.

6 years of experience

Combination 5

A Bachelor’s Degree

5 years of experience

Combination 6

A Master’s Degree

3 years of experience

Combination 7

A Ph.D.

2 years of experience

OR

Two years of experience as an Environmental Specialist 3, at the Department of Ecology.

Special Requirements/Conditions of Employment:

  • Must maintain a valid driver’s license.
  • Must complete 40-hour hazardous materials training and/or the 8-hour annual HAZWOPER training within six months of appointment.

Desired Qualifications:
We highly encourage you to apply even if you do not have some (or all) of the desired experience below.

  • Experienced with the MTCA, Remedial Investigations/Feasibility Studies, and clean site management.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, and meeting facilitation skills.

Note: Having some (or all) of this desired experience may make your application more competitive in a highly competitive applicant pool.