Careers

Description:

In this role, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team and use science to solve complex environmental challenges. Working with other federal, state, local and tribal response partners, you will serve as Ecology’s State On-Scene Coordinator leading the response and cleanup of complex environmental spills. Your efforts will result in immediate improvements to the safety of Washington residents and our environment. 

What you will do: 

• Conduct responses to spills of oil and hazardous substances, abandoned waste, fish kills and other environmental and human health emergencies. 
• Serve as initial incident commander and State On-Scene Coordinator for spills of petroleum products and hazardous materials on water and land. 
• Conduct operations to control, contain and cleanup spills, investigate the cause of spills and response actions taken by parties responsible for spills, directs environmental response contractors, and coordinates responses with appropriate private, local, state and federal representatives involved. 
• Open containers of unknowns, take samples, overpack and transport abandoned chemical wastes for final disposal. 
• Offer technical assistance and limited regulatory interpretation to parties involved in spill incidents and drug lab cleanups. 
• Prepare and complete all documentation and reporting associated with such incidents.

Skills/Eligibility:

Qualifications

 

For detailed information on how we calculate experience, please visit our Recruitment website.

To qualify at the Environmental Specialist 2 level (In-Training) 

Pay Range 47 (including the 5% location pay) $4,515 - $6,067 monthly

Five (5) years of combined experience and/or education. 

Experience: Performing environmental-based work, OR work related to any of the following: 

• Incident Command and Emergency Response Leadership Experience serving as an initial Incident Commander or State On-Scene Coordinator, applying Incident Command System (ICS) principles to manage complex oil and hazardous materials incidents involving multiple agencies and competing priorities. 
• Advanced Spill Response and Hazardous Materials Operations Skill in planning, directing, and performing hands-on response actions for oil spills, hazardous substance releases, abandoned waste, and illegal drug manufacturing facilities, including containment, cleanup, and mitigation in high-risk environments. 
• Hazard Identification, Sampling, and Field Analysis Knowledge of hazardous substance identification, sampling techniques, field testing, and hazard classification, including safe handling of unknown materials and interpretation of monitoring data against health-based and regulatory standards. 
• Dangerous Waste Management and Regulatory Compliance Knowledge of federal and state dangerous waste regulations and ability to ensure compliant waste handling, storage, transportation, disposal, inventory tracking, reporting, and emergency response planning. 
• Interagency and Law Enforcement Coordination Skill in coordinating and leading response activities with local, state, federal, and tribal partners, including law enforcement agencies. 
• Emergency Spill Response Operations Ability to independently respond to oil spills, hazardous substance releases, abandoned waste, and other environmental and human health emergencies, performing containment, control, and cleanup actions in accordance with established procedures. 
• Incident Command System Participation Skill in functioning effectively within the Incident Command System as an Incident Commander for routine incidents or as a Command/General Staff member or technical specialist during complex responses under direction. 
• Hazard Identification and Field Safety Knowledge of hazardous materials recognition, site safety principles, and hazard assessment, including safe work practices in IDLH environments and proper use of Levels B and C personal protective equipment. 
• Sampling, Monitoring, and Waste Handling Experience in collecting environmental and waste samples, operating field monitoring instruments, interpreting results using established guidance, and safely packaging, labeling, and transporting hazardous and dangerous waste for disposal. 
• Regulatory Knowledge and Application Knowledge of applicable state and federal spill response and dangerous waste regulations, with the ability to apply regulations, guidance, and standard operating procedures to incident response and compliance activities. 
• Contractor and Responsible Party Management Experience observing, documenting, and/or supporting response actions conducted by spillers and environmental response contractors, escalating issues or non-compliance to supervisors as appropriate. 
• Technical Communication and Documentation Skill in preparing clear, accurate, and timely incident documentation, reports, and data entries, and communicating technical information effectively to su