ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SPECIALIST

Full Job Description

You will serve as an Environmental Protection Specialist in the Environmental Division of NAV FACILITIES ENGINEERING COMMAND SE.

This NAVFAC Southeast position advances your career in a challenging and inclusive, yet flexible environment where YOU truly make a difference!

Be part of an organization that values YOUR unique skillset, fosters YOUR professional development, and gives YOU the opportunity to grow into tomorrow's leader.

You don't need to be active duty military to serve your country!

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Assisting in responses to spills and releases of oil and hazardous substances to facilitate containment, support cleanup actions, and minimize adverse impacts to human health and environment; 2) Enacting measures to ensure environmental compliance with laws/regulations, Executive Orders, and policies regarding the program management of solid waste, hazardous waste, water quality, air emissions, environmental restoration, spill prevention, and natural/cultural resources; 3) Determining, interpreting, and negotiating environmental compliance requirements (e.g., permit conditions, cleanup levels) with local, state, and Federal regulatory agencies; and 4) Advising customers and providing support on their environmental compliance requirements.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Physical Demands: The work requires physical exertion such as long periods of standing on hard surfaces; climbing stairs, and ladders; walking over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities.

Incumbent uses hand-trucks and other types of material handling equipment to move, load, and unload large drums and various size containers from trucks and containment areas.

Work involves recurring lifting or moving of moderately heavy items such as DOT 55-gallon and 80-gallon drums, tri-walls, boxes, or large awkward-sized containers, or carrying objects weighing up to 50 pounds.

The duties require the ability to wear a Level A suit, including a self-contained breathing apparatus, for up to 60 minutes at a time.

Duties also require use of other personal protective equipment and material handling equipment that requires physical stamina to work for prolonged periods in a heat-stressed environment.

Incumbent must be able to pass an annual occupational health physical examination and an annual respirator fit test. Work may require some travel beyond local work locations.

Work Environment: The work involves moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precautions, e.g.

working around moving parts, carts, or machines; exposure to irritant chemicals such as toxic substances, fumes, infectious materials, and contaminated water; work outside in high heat, high humidity, cold and inclement weather.

Employees will be required to use protective clothing or gear, such as masks, Tyvek suits, steel-toed shoes/boots, goggles, gloves, respirators, and/or face shields.

Work is performed in an office and in the field where site visits may involve hazardous environments including oil and hazardous material spill sites, hazardous waste storage areas, fuel storage tanks, etc.

During visits to sites and facilities, there may be exposure to situations which are dangerous and may contain a variety of hazardous wastes due to their toxic, flammable, corrosive, reactive, mutagenic, teratogenic, carcinogenic, etc.

properties. The work is frequently dirty and greasy and exposes the individual to the possibility of cuts, bruises, abrasions, and falls during collection and processing operations. Major Duties:

• You will inspect regulated waste containers at the Hazardous Waste Storage Facility (HWSF) or Environmental Service Waste Management Site (ESWMS) for structural integrity, accumulation dates, proper identification markings, and transportability.
• You will physically transfer wastes from one container to another, or lab pack as required due to deteriorated containers or incompatible waste.
• You will perform environmental protection duties related to the management and disposal of regulated waste (I.e. Hazardous Waste, Universal Wastes, State Regulated Wastes, and other Regulated Solid Waste)
• You will perform weekly (every seven days) regulated inspections of the HWSF and any associated storage sites under the management of Enviromental Services personnel.
• You will use knowledge of basic operations and software to input waste tracking information, maintain waste operating records, and run reports.