Environmental Protection Specialist

Full Job Description

About the Position: Serve as the Environmental Protection Specialist at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized experience: One year of specialized experience which includes developing policies and procedures for solutions to unique environmental issues; overseeing protocols that implement Federal, State, and local laws/guidelines; providing advice to the organization and tenant activities on the use and interpretation of new environmental regulations that affect their mission with an organization; analyzing numerous federal, state, and local laws to provide advice to leadership and tenant organizations on various media, such as clean air, water resources management, hazardous and toxic materials, and/or resource conservation and recovery; and reviewing projects to identify potential environmental regulatory and permit requirements.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11) Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirements using experience alone -- no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Develop annual environmental work plans and funding for projects under the direction of the Senior Environmental Protection Specialist.
• Formulate and develop implementing policies and procedures to provide solutions to resolve unique environmental issues within IMCOM assets.
• Provide overall environmental program direction to generators in the life-cycle management of IMCOM acquired materials and systems encompassing development, testing, production, usage, storage and disposal.
• Analyze effectiveness of programs and develop policies and procedures to increase the benefits obtained.
• Prepare, review, analyze, and determine acceptability of environmental documents, to include: manifests, disposal records, inspection records, analytical test results, etc.
• Develop and provide environmental requirements for inclusion into regulatory documents, acquisition documents, specifications, test plans, type classification documents, and material release documents.
• Interpret numerous laws, regulations, directives, and policies received from Federal, state, and local environmental agencies for administration of the environmental program elements.
• Conduct environmental inspections, surveys, studies, and prepare applicable reports for management and operating officials.
• Prepare and conduct training sessions, workshops, and other activities for clients to maintain conformance with environmental regulations.