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Environmental Specialist 2

Grade 23

New York State has approximately 56 positions* in this title statewide. You may view a breakdown of positions by county. This position exists in various agencies statewide. View links to all New York State agencies including agencies that have this title. For more information, New York State employees can contact the Career Mobility Office at (518) 485-6199 or (800) 553-1322. If you are not a current New York State employee, you can use the Department of Civil Service Web site to explore possible employment opportunities.

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Career Ladder

A listing of titles that are most commonly used as steps for upward mobility for this title series. The salary schedule for this career ladder is also available.

  1. Environmental Specialist Trainee 1

    Similar to Grade 13

  2. Environmental Specialist Trainee 2

    Similar to Grade 14

  3. Environmental Specialist 1

    Grade 18

  4. Environmental Specialist 2

    Grade 23

  5. Environmental Specialist 3

    Grade 27

  6. Environmental Specialist 4

    Grade 64

Summary of Job Description

As an Environmental Specialist 2, you would develop policies, guidelines, and procedures for environmental issues; perform quality assurance reviews of environmental impact analyses and environmental assessments; provide technical assistance to department staff and consultants on environmental issues such as air quality, cultural resources, hazardous wastes, contaminated soil, groundwater, wetlands, and stormwater management; and you would supervise staff engaged in the preparation of environmental impact statements, permit applications, or act as a technical expert in a particular environmental specialty.

View the classification standard for this title, on the Classification and Compensation webpage.

The NYS Title and Salary Plan provides additional information regarding other titles. If there is a classification standard available there will be a link under the column labeled STD. NO. If no link is available there is no classification standard available at this time for that title.

Summary of Minimum Qualifications

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

You must take and pass a Civil Service examination in order to be considered for this position.

For employees of New York State, on or before the date of the examination, the candidate must be a qualified employee of the New York State Department of Transportation, New York State Thruway Authority, or New York State Canal Corporation and have had three months permanent competitive or 55-b/55-c service as either:

A. an Environmental Specialist 1 OR Landscape Architect;

Or

B. an Assistant Engineer (Civil/Transportation) or Transportation Analyst where at least 50% of your duties involved the preparation and review of environmental impact analyses requiring knowledge and application of state and federal environmental laws, regulations, methods, procedures, and standards. This experience must include either preparing technical analyses on environmental matters or providing consultation on environmental regulatory programs.

For informational purposes only, click on the examination number(s) listed below to see the current or previous examination(s) that are used to fill this title.

38-048

How to Apply

When this examination is scheduled to be held, the announcement can be found on the Department of Civil Service, Examination Announcements web page. If you do not see an examination currently scheduled please check back on a monthly basis or sign up for announcement notification by email so that you will automatically be notified when new examinations are being offered.

Career Mobility

Career mobility is not just limited to the titles in the Career Ladder, above. Additional movement may be achieved through other examinations, additional education and/or work experience or transfer opportunities. For additional information or clarification of transfer determinations, current State employees should contact the Career Mobility Office. Visit ELMS Online to view established open-competitive, promotion, and transition eligible lists. If you are not a current New York State employee, see Employment Opportunities with New York State and find out how to become a New York State employee.

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