Environmental Compliance Specialist

About the Role

Herndon Solutions Group (HSG) is seeking an Environmental Compliance Specialist I to serve as the on-site, multimedia environmental compliance resource at the NASA Glenn Research Center Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility (GRC-ATF) in Erie County, Ohio. This role supports environmental programs across hazardous waste management, stormwater, wastewater, spill prevention, and compliance, contributing to NASA's mission.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary on-site compliance coordinator for GRC-ATF across waste, POL/tank, spill, stormwater, and wastewater programs, maintaining awareness of permits, plans, inspections, monitoring, records, deliverables, and corrective actions.
• Evaluate facility operations, projects, material and waste storage, tanks, outfalls, wastewater discharges, construction activities, and spill conditions for potential multi-media environmental requirements, and route issues to the appropriate functional lead.
• Conduct and document compliance inspections for hazardous waste, universal waste, used oil, POL/tank, stormwater, wastewater, construction, and other assigned areas; identify deficiencies and recommend corrective actions.
• Support regulated and controlled waste activities, including generator coordination, waste determinations, profiles, accumulation-area management, shipment documentation, sampling coordination, and cradle-to-grave records.
• Maintain ATF spill readiness and provide initial technical coordination for spill assessment, containment strategy, sampling, waste management, documentation, reporting, and post-event follow-up.
• Support stormwater permit implementation through site surveillance, inspections, outfall screening, BMP inspections, sampling coordination, documentation, and plan updates.
• Support wastewater compliance through permit-condition awareness, sampling coordination, data review, inspection support, equipment checks, reporting inputs, and investigation of abnormal conditions.
• Coordinate with laboratories and functional-area leads on field sampling plans, chain of custody, data quality, analytical results, and follow-up actions.
• Prepare compliance reports, inspection records, permit data, corrective-action responses, environmental status updates, and audit documentation.
• Analyze cross-media findings and operational changes to identify compliance risks, conflicting requirements, recurring issues, and opportunities for integrated corrective action.
• Support environmental audits, regulatory inspections, investigations, emergency drills, project reviews, meetings, and field activities.
• Coordinate with Hazardous Waste Specialists at Lewis Field and functional leads to ensure consistent practices across GRC locations.
• Independently evaluate compliance conditions, determine implicated requirements, and prioritize findings based on regulatory, environmental, safety, mission, and schedule consequences.
• Own issue coordination and tracking through closure, recognizing matters requiring Government approval, regulator contact, or specialist review.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Minimum of 0-2 years of experience collecting information and/or following procedures to collect samples.
• RCRA Hazardous Waste Management training and required refreshers.
• DOT Hazardous Materials Ground Shipper training and required refreshers.
• OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER training and required refreshers.
• Applicable NASA SATERN and site-specific environmental, safety, spill response, stormwater, POL, and waste-management training based on assigned duties.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to obtain and maintain required NASA facility access.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, chemistry, biology, geology, occupational safety, or a related discipline.
• Three or more years of multi-media environmental compliance experience at an industrial, research, aerospace, government, or similarly regulated facility.
• Experience with Ohio EPA requirements, NPDES permits, SPCC requirements, RCRA generator standards, construction stormwater controls, and environmental data and reporting systems.
• Ohio BUSTR Class A/B or Class C operator training, stormwater inspection credentials, or other applicable media-specific qualifications.

Working Conditions

• Primarily an on-site position at GRC-ATF with routine support at Lewis Field, including local travel between locations.
• Supports GRC core business hours.
• Work may be performed in office, laboratory, industrial, warehouse, utility, construction, outdoor, and active facility environments.
• Must be able to lift, carry, or move 30 pounds or more; climb stairs; bend, stoop, twist, and reach; and stand or walk for two hours or more at one time.
• Must wear required personal protective equipment and work in varying weather and site conditions.
• May participate in emergency readiness and response coverage, including after-hours support when required.