This is advanced professional and administrative work in the environmental management field. The environmental management field may include air pollution control, hazardous, solid and toxic waste management, public health, underground injection control, fuel storage systems, radiation protection, pesticide control, water supply, water quality management, water pollution control, toxic substance control, groundwater protection, water resources, water basins, environmental remediation, plant disease, pest infestation, and other closely related programs. Assignments are received in broad outline and require independent work in developing and implementing technical policies and procedures and coordinating several program activities toward accomplishing assigned objectives.
Supervision is exercised over a professional and technical staff.
At this level, employees are free to plan, develop and organize all phases of the work necessary for its completion within programs guidance. Generally, they can develop and utilize any procedures and methods which do not conflict with major policies. Supervision is generally exercised over them through staff conference-type discussions and a review of progress reports. Unusual - the type of position which requires the exercise of unusual managerial, administrative, or scientific skill often involving several unrelated activities, frequent decisions, meeting of deadlines, negotiations with other high level functionaries, and planning, organization, development and coordination of large scale work projects requiring an unusual amount of concentration and analytic ability or unusually difficult engineering or scientific research or development or both. Work is of a diversified nature that usually involves multiple, unrelated steps.