Position available
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Water (OW)
The US Environmental Protection Agency with the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) has a job opening on the team. The DWSRF is a federal-state partnership funding drinking water infrastructure and technical assistance needed to ensure safe drinking water across America. The program helps local communities accomplish the critical public health and environmental goals; it is the second-largest program at the EPA and thus has high visibility.

The job opening is with the team who implements the DWSRF American Iron and Steel (AIS) Program provision. In short, all communities receiving DWSRF funding must use American-made iron and steel products in their projects. The participant will be trained to 1) participate in the development of informational products that assist Regions, states, and other stakeholders such as training materials, web casts, conference calls, fact sheets, AIS website, and other written communications, 2) conduct on-site engineering reviews and application of drinking water system infrastructure design and construction to comply with the nations drinking water standards addressing AIS elements, 3) conduct research on national AIS product use and practices, 4) contribute to the review of AIS waiver requests and participate in the response process, and 5) provide support for the evaluation of issues related to technical aspects of AIS products. The person will get to travel to project construction sites across the country.

There has been several general environmental scientists, as well as engineers, fill this position in the past. It's a great way to see how the federal government, states, and local communities implement the laws we learned about in college and beyond.

Here is the link to the job announcement: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/EPA-Water-2019-0034.

The application deadline is Monday, 6/10/2019 at 3:00 PM Eastern. Questions can be sent to toEPArpp@orau.org.