Environmental Resources Specialist 2

***This job opportunity is not in the classified service and is not covered by the West Virginia Division of Personnel merit system. ***

DEP2600185 Environmental Resources Specialist 2

WV Department of Environmental Protection

Division of Land Restoration; Abandoned Mine Lands Program; Planning

Designated Counties: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke, Grant, Hardy, Harrison, Marshall, Monongalia, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Preston, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wood

Office location: 1000 Technology Dr Suite 3220, Fairmont, WV 26554

Please refer to posting DEP2400184, ERS1 One position will be filled with either title.

We welcome you to join our team where we value work/life balance and diversity. We offer a great benefits package that includes 12 paid holidays, insurance and flexible benefits, ample annual and sick leave accrual, flexible work schedules, an Employee Assistance Program, Wellness Initiatives, an optional 457 defined contribution retirement savings plan and more. 

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If you want to be a part of this innovative team, apply today.

Employee will be assigned to the Division of Land Restoration (DLR), Abandoned Mine Lands (AML), Planning.

At the full-performance level, performs complex professional work in a specialty area in the acquisition, preservation, management and protection of the state's environmental/natural resources.

Duties include: 

• Developing and confirming AML problems with subsidence, uncontrolled mine drainage, landslides, unstable refuse piles, burning refuse piles, open mine portals, gases from underground burning, vertical openings, drainage from collapsed mine entries, dangerous impoundments, hazardous abandoned mine equipment, dangerous highwalls, clogged streams, hazardous water bodies, hazardous and explosive gases and polluted water sources. 

• The problem area data sheets are entered into the abandoned mine land inventory system (AMLIS), and prioritized on the basis of human life, health, and safety.

Work involves application of program planning techniques by selection and developing AML projects from problem areas in the AML inventory system and other sources. 

Development of projects includes: 

• AML eligibility, scope of work, tentative reclamation plan, and cost estimate to reclaim the problem. 

• Develops and presents a variety of solutions to the problem uncovered by data collection by developing environmental assessments for each project. 

• Presents findings of studies and explains proposed projects to state and local officials and the general public. 

• Position requires the use of GPS equipment and GIS software to generate digital maps and files of the location, size, and physical features of the abandoned site, water quality sampling, monitoring and data management.

• Employee will enter field and planning information into OSM AMLIS, in preparation of accurate cost estimates of the work necessary to reclaim a site. 

• Employee will perform other duties as required and/or assigned.

Expectations: 

• Must be able to walk long distances in adverse weather over steep rugged terrain and lift and carry equipment for considerable distances.

• Must have a valid driver's license and be able to drive over rugged terrain in adverse weather. 

• Must have working knowledge of Microsoft office suite, strong writing skills, mapreading; ARCGIS/GPS equipment; solo exploring.

• Qualifying applicants will be required to complete an internet based profile assessment to compare the applicant's thinking and reasoning skills, behavioral traits and the occupational interests against the traits determined to be important to the posted position.

• The recommended candidate will be subject to a search of his or her Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) prior to being hired and annually thereafter or as needed.

• Employees involved with specific DEP programs subject to the surface mining control and reclamation act (SMCRA) of 1977 must file prior to final appointment and annually thereafter, a statement of employment and financial interest (OSM23).

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Training: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

OR

Substitution: Additional full-time or equivalent part-time paid professional experience as described below may be substituted for the required training at a rate of one (1) year of experience for every thirty (30) semester hours of training.

AND

Experience: Two (2) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid professional experience in the acquisition, preservation, protection and enhancement of environmental/natural resources, environmental protection or in an agency-specific area related to environmental impact.

OR

Substitution: Graduate coursework from an accredited college or university may be substituted for the required experience at the rate of fifteen (15) semester hours for every one (1) year of experience.

Salary : $41,194 - $71,789