Environmental Specialist

Organization

Agency Contact Name and Information :
Erika Carleski

Mar 17, 2026, 3:59:00 AM

Ohio EPA Northwest District Of 347 North Dunbridge Road Bowling Green 43402

United States of America-OHIO-Wood County-Bowling Green

Compensation : $30.55 - $44.74

Full-time

Union : OCSEA

Technical Skills :
Data Analytics, Engineering, Environmental Services, Equipment Operations, Public Relations, Inventory Control

What We Need:

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What We Do:

At the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, our primary goal is to protect the environment and public health. We do this by ensuring compliance with federal and state environmental laws.

What We Need YOU To Do:

Ohio EPA wants you to join our team as an environmental specialist with the Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) at our Northwest District Office in Wood County.

Interested in lending a hand to protect Ohio’s air quality? Read on!

We’re looking for dedicated individual to perform highly technical work supporting our air monitoring network. In this role you’ll install, operate, maintain, and calibrate sensitive air monitoring equipment, including high volume particulate samplers and continuous monitors, at regulated sources of air pollution around the state.

You’ll assist with collating, analyzing and reporting air quality data, and completing accurate logs and reports. We’ll need your attention to details to report on the status of monitoring activities, internal and external audits, and quality assurance/quality control activities according to DAPC’s standards and policies.

As needed, you’ll conduct investigations of air pollution complaints, prepare your findings and recommend resolutions and corrective actions to DAPC management.

Let’s recap the job basics:

• Install, operate, and calibrate air monitoring equipment.
• Assist with collating, analyzing, and reporting air quality data.
• Keep appropriate logs and records.
• Ensure quality data collection, review, and reporting.
• Report on monitoring activities, audits, and quality assurance/control events.

Aim your career for the sky and apply today!

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees*. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website! Our benefits package includes:

• Medical Coverage
• Free Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, sick leave and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care leave
• Education and Development Opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public Retirement Systems (such as OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS) & Optional Deferred Compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)

* Benefits eligibility is dependent on a number of factors. The Agency Contact listed above will be able to provide specific benefits information for this position.

• 12 mos. exp. as Environmental Specialist 1, 85861.
• OR 4 yrs. trg. or 4 yrs. exp. in position involving engineering or chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science, geology or hydrogeology &/or other comparable physical or health science field &/or mathematics which included responsibility for conducting compliance monitoring surveys &/or inspections/reviews or investigations, or review of permit applications relative to oil & gas well operations or injection, annular disposal & saltwater injection wells & enhanced recovery projects or coal mining, or solid/hazardous waste sites or industrial & municipal wastewater dischargers, or collecting, compiling & preparing various environmental assessments, evaluations, reports & related documents.
  
  Training & experience must be commensurate with duties to be assigned.
• OR baccalaureate degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, environmental science, earth science &/or urban & regional planning, geology or other comparable physical or health science fields, with training…