Environmental Protection Engineer I (Ump)

State of Illinois•Springfield, MO

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s Bureau of Land, Division of Remediation Management, Federal Site Remediation Section (FSRS) is hiring an Environmental Protection Engineer I to support work under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund). This is a beginning-level engineering position focused on environmental investigations and remedial response projects, with training and professional development intended to prepare the employee for increasingly independent work. The employee will observe and participate in the planning and execution of field investigations, remedial designs, and remedial actions alongside engineers, geologists, and scientists from the Illinois EPA, other state and federal agencies, and responsible parties. The position is based at the agency’s Springfield headquarters; reporting in person is required as operational needs dictate, on a potentially weekly, monthly, or other schedule. The stated schedule is 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with a one-hour lunch. The agency describes a 37½-hour work week. The position requires travel, a current and valid driver’s license, participation in a medical monitoring program, and completion of 40-hour OSHA training within 90 days of employment, followed by maintaining relevant annual refresher training or certification. A name-based background check is also required. The role is included in the Upward Mobility Program and is a union position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering science or equivalent knowledge, skill, and mental development from four years of college; relevant engineering fields and closely related engineering specialties are specified in the posting.
No previous experience is required.
Current and valid driver’s license.
Ability to travel.
Ability to participate in the medical monitoring program.
Complete 40-hour OSHA training within 90 days of employment and maintain applicable working knowledge through annual refresher training and/or certification.
Ability to pass a name-based background check.
Applicants seeking to use Upward Mobility Program contractual rights must apply internally and upload a copy of their UMP grade notice before submitting the application.

Nice To Haves

At least 30 semester hours of coursework in the listed subjects, including hydrogeology, hydrology, soil mechanics, mechanics of materials, open-channel flow, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, electric circuit theory, statistics, vector mechanics, physics, calculus, differential equations, geophysics, geological information systems, and engineering economics.
Licensed Professional Engineer.
Two years of experience working on CERCLA deliverables.
Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with municipal officials, facility operators and owners, plant managers, or their representatives, and to interpret pertinent state laws, rules, regulations, policies, or procedures to individuals and municipal bodies.
Working knowledge of modern environmental control systems, facilities, techniques, and procedures, and ability to analyze and interpret scientific data and facility, installation, or equipment plans.
Working knowledge of state environmental protection or pollution-abatement laws, rules, and regulations.
Ability to use a personal computer and Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access; training, education, and experience with Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and contaminant fate-and-transport modeling.
Ability to operate field equipment such as cameras, dissolved-oxygen testing and monitoring equipment, sound-level meters, photoionization detectors, real-time gas analyzers, and drilling, sampling, and probing equipment.

Responsibilities

Observe and participate in routine scientific and engineering reviews of sites and facilities, and routine on-site inspections for the Bureau of Land and Federal Site Remediation Section.
Receive training and assist higher-level staff in applying Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs), including CERCLA, the National Contingency Plan, the Federal Facilities Compliance Act, the Illinois Environmental Protection Act, applicable Illinois regulations, and related policies and procedures.
Prepare scientific and engineering memoranda and correspondence for close supervisor review, including scopes of work, work plans, and cost estimates for CERCLA investigations, Feasibility Studies, decision documents, and design and construction projects.
Receive training, observe, and participate in site inspections and oversight activities, including hazardous-substance investigations; cleanup and remediation-system construction; legacy monitoring; groundwater monitoring-well installation and sampling; soil and hazardous-waste sampling; geophysical methods; excavation; groundwater pump-and-treatment systems; on-site treatment alternatives; waste-unit closures; and other remedial construction activities.
Assist with negotiation and implementation of enforcement orders for Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study and Remedial Design/Remedial Action activities.
Attend, observe, and participate in legal hearings and Superfund public-information activities, and interpret applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Perform other duties reasonably within the scope of the listed responsibilities.