Environmental Protection Specialist

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About the Position: This position is located in the Department of Preventative Medicine Environmental Health Service at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) with the Defense Health Agency, Indo-Pacific Market, Hawaii Region.

Tripler Army Medical Center is a tobacco-free workplace. Tobacco products include, but are not limited to, smoking, smokeless tobacco, and electronic nicotine delivery devices.

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.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee 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) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible 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 Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the Education/ and or 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 assisting installations in preparing environmental permits; providing guidance to waste managers and generators to ensure compliance with health and hygiene requirements; and assisting in preparing environmental assessments.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: environmental science, environmental studies, environmental health, natural resources.(Transcripts must be uploaded) OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

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-09).

Major Duties:

• Provide environmental support to Army Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Facilities and advise leadership on environmental policies, procedures, and systems and how it will affect the operation of their facility(ies).
• 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.
• Review and interpret environmental laws, regulations, directives, and policies received from Federal, state and local environmental agencies for administration of the environmental program elements to develop and distribute guidelines, policy(ies).
• Prepare, review, and analyze environmental documents, including but not limited to, waste profiles, manifests, disposal records, inspection records, analytical test results, etc. to determine acceptability.
• Review environmental assessments (EA)/environmental impact statements (EIS) and contracts to assess how new construction, expansion, modification, renovation, or closure of facilities may impact the environment and human health.
• Review Environmental Impact Assessments/Statements, Pollution Abatement and Management Plans (e.g., Spill Prevention Control and Spill Contingency Plans), and contracts prepared with US Army Pacific and US Army Garrison.