Senior environmental specialist who applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge to accomplish assignments and to develop strategies to improve environmental programs and policies. Requires in-depth understanding of how environmental protection interacts with other technical areas, construction and maintenance projects. Typical assignments include: environmental compliance audits, analyzing drinking water sampling data, resolving environmental violations issued by regulators, developing engineering solutions for hazardous material storage, investigation and inspection activities, coordinating environmental due diligence audits, adjudicating enforcement actions, providing technical training to lower level safety and environmental specialists, managing the fuel tank program, conducting extensive research and executing overall responsibility for environmental project/program management. Within the Eastern Service Area, acts as the senior advisor on environmental issues. The incumbent’s 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. The incumbent must accept professional responsibility for environmental analyses within areas of expertise in Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and assessments and must be prepared to support his/her judgment in litigation. The incumbent possesses a high degree of technical analytic competence in various environmental disciplines and sets 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 FAA spokesperson on any joint federal environmental efforts mandated by regulation, either in a lead or cooperating capacity. The incumbent must provide leadership within the Service Area 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. The incumbent’s successful solutions of complex problems with the Service Area will be applied on a nationwide basis. Responds to questions and letters from private citizens, civic associations, federal, state, and local government bodies, and environmental groups, weighing the implications for agency policy, legal requirements, technical accuracy, and program needs. Works with full technical independence under the supervision of the EOSH team manager who provides general direction, guidance, and advice as requested. Conclusions and recommendations developed by the incumbent are relied upon heavily in final decisions. Completed work and decisions are considered technically accurate and are reviewed only for compliance with agency policies and directives therefore; incumbent has wide latitude in the exercise of independent judgment, leadership and initiative in the discharge of duties. Work is evaluated in terms of effectiveness in working with Team personnel and various other agencies, officials, and groups; the soundness of recommendations; and achievement of solutions to significant problems. Guidelines consist of broad guidance and precedents, agency regulations, policies, and procedures, and broad program goals and objectives. Guidelines provide a general outline of the concept, methods, and goals to be followed. The employee uses initiative and resourcefulness in researching and implementing new and improved methods and procedures. Exercises a great deal of judgment and discretion, and has broad latitude in interpreting and applying guidelines.