Environmental Specialist II (Dallas Water Utilities)

Full-time - Entry Level

Scottsdale, AZ

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

The Environmental Specialist II inspects, investigates, evaluates, and determines City compliance with environmental laws, regulations, and standards. Performs regular inspections, manages spills, participates with training, and performs reporting and coordination for the Environmental Compliance Committee. This position involves moderately complex environmental work, requiring independent fieldwork and decision-making based on technical descriptions and sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Performs and provides complex environmental evaluation, inspection, and review of City services and utilities; investigates complaints, performs regular inspections, and files compliance reports for environmental agencies.
• Oversees, monitors, and provides knowledgeable skill for clean ups of City spills and other potentially hazardous situations; ensures spills are cleaned appropriately and completely, investigates causes of spills to determine future preventability, and files incident reports and documents.
• Inspects City facilities for environmental compliance; reviews waste storage areas, water facilities, stormwater management tactics, and other wastewater activities; observes and identifies issues that need to be addressed and communicates issues and concerns; oversees mitigation and completion of identified issues.
• Drafts, prepares, and files extensive reports on inspection activities and findings; documents areas of non-compliance, preventable reports, and various incidents; ensures all departments and City decision makers are aware of issues and have pertinent information to make informed decisions.
• Understands and applies environmental policies, rules, regulations, and standards to ensure City is meeting and exceeding expectations; provides training and education to other employees to ensure all inspection and compliance activity is done accurately and efficiently.
• Assists and supports with hazardous spills and incidents; provides a detailed inspection of incidents and appropriate analysis; participates in emergency situations, maintains spill team schedule, and assists with reports for Environmental Compliance Committee meetings.
• Performs any and all other work as needed or assigned.

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED.
• Two (2) years of experience in one (1) or more of the following environmental areas: Site assessment/inspection, Waste management, Handling hazardous materials/chemicals, Spill response, Performing chemical analysis, Pretreatment inspections, Soil/water/air/groundwater sample collection, Maintaining/using Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS's), Inspecting storm sewer/drainage structures.

Nice-to-haves

• An associate degree in an architectural, engineering, environmental, or life science field plus one (1) year of the required experience will meet the education and experience requirements.
• A bachelor's degree or higher in an architectural, engineering, environmental, or life science field will meet the education and experience requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Five-year vested pension plan
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Pet insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Qualifying childcare assistance
• Paid time off