Environmental Protection Specialist

About the role

This position serves as a senior Environmental Protection Specialist who applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge to accomplish assignments and to develop strategies to improve environmental programs and policies.

Incumbent reports to the Technical Operations, Technical Services Organization, Environmental Occupational Safety and Health (EOSH) Support Operations Group (ESOG), EOSH Support Center.

What you will do

• Performs multiple, varying and complex work assignments under the minimal direction of a Manager, Project/Program Manager or more experienced Technical Specialist.
• Acts as principal technical specialist or as a Project Manager or Team Leader for large work activities.
• Applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge applicable to position discipline, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems.
• Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems.
• Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.
• Typical assignments may include: complex system design and integration; extensive research and analyses; investigation and inspection activities; compliance and enforcement actions; and direct responsibility for project/program management.
• Defines, organizes and assigns resources to accomplish organizational objectives.
• Allocates resources to accomplish large work-activities within established schedules.
• Prepares task orders, work statements, and other documents necessary to procure contractual services for environmental programs/compliance projects.
• Utilizes agency established tool sets to establish, track, and report on schedules, costs, and performance of environmental programs/compliance projects.
• Translates approved environmental program requirements into project scopes and coordinates project execution with implementing organizations.
• Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports or contractual documents for final approval prior to external distribution.
• Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies.
• Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations.
• Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches.
• Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires.
• Provides guidance to lower-level staff on how to solve difficult technical issues.
• Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues.
• Work is reviewed rarely, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.
• Work activities typically impact objectives of one or more major subdivisions or LOB's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.
• Acts as a senior technical point of contact on environmental issues.
• Utilizes skill and judgment in determining the seriousness of potential impacts on the human environment, in analyzing these impacts, in recommending solutions, and negotiating their implementation in a feasible manner will directly influence the environmental programs within the Service Area and the functioning of the EOSH facility security team.
• Possess a high degree of technical analytic competence in various environmental disciplines and recommends environmental policies for the Service Area.
• The incumbent is responsible for review and coordination of environmental documents submitted by other federal and state agencies for FAA action and is the Technical Services Senior Technical spokesperson on any joint federal environmental efforts mandated by regulation, either in a lead or cooperating capacity.
• Provides leadership to maintain an active program to study and ameliorate the impacts of airports on the human environment.
• The incumbent is expected to exercise multi-disciplinary expertise, innovation, a high degree of judgment, and personal initiative to define airport problems and to resolve them.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

Education

Education cannot be substituted for experience.

How you will be evaluated

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Documents you must provide

• You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50 including Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement.
• Failure to provide the required documentation by the closing date of this announcement will result in non-consideration for this position.
• Applicants must apply on-line, through USAJOBS, to receive consideration; Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applications cannot be accepted.
• If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your on-line application, e.g. transcripts, SF-50, or veteran's documents, you may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS.
• If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement.
• You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application.
• If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.
• If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system ***

What to expect next

Once we receive your complete application, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. You will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

For instructions on how to check the status of your application, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide. Important - If you make any changes to your application, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your application and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your application package, and only your previously submitted application will be evaluated.

All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Information section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodation request.

Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Additional information on reasonable accommodations procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.

Additional information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty.

FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. *** In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA section, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA.

Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a human resource specialist as appropriate.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of Knowledge, Skills, and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

Moderate Risk (5): This position requires completion & favorable adjudication of a Moderate Risk Background Investigation (Tier 2) background investigation prior to appointment, unless waiver is obtained Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA