ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER - SES - 64082577

Requisition No: 864451 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER - SES - 64082577

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64082577 

Salary:  $68,000 - $75,000 annually 

Posting Closing Date: 11/10/2025 

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Thank you for your interest in career opportunities with the Florida Department of Health in Polk County.  If you are looking to establish a successful career in Public Health, you have come to the right place.  Many of our innovative and successful health programs are recognized throughout Florida.  We hope you decide to join our team!  Applicants will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

 

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position spends most of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets.  This position reports directly to and communicates frequently with the Environmental Health Director.

The incumbent is part of a global public health organization and is expected to support the Florida Department of Health in Polk County in its mission to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts and its vision to be the Healthiest State in the Nation. Furthermore, the incumbent is expected to incorporate the agency values of Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Responsiveness and Excellence in all aspects of their work.  

 

STORAGE TANK AND PETROLEUM RESTORATION PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:

 

The employee in this position will be responsible for implementation of all portions of the Petroleum Restoration Program and the Stationary Pollutant Storage Tank Program established and governed by Florida statues and rules.

 

Reviews Stationary Pollutant Storage Tank Facilities contract and conducts annual negotiations with government officials for the management of the Stationary Pollutant Storage Tank Facilities program.  Contracted duties include the technical oversight of all phases of stationary storage tank compliance inspections.  Assures inspection compliance in accordance with FDEP regulations and current task assignments.  Ensures out of compliance inspections are closed within 90 days per FDEP policies.  Meets the task assignment inspection timelines each quarter.

 

Review contractor's installation and closure plans, and monitoring of compliance activities at Stationary Pollutant Storage tank system sites; ensure incident and discharge investigations are conducted in compliance with state regulations; monitor daily performance, conduct performance evaluations, and review correspondence and reports.  Serves as the supervisor for storage tank inspectors and monitors their performance in meeting the goals of the Stationary Pollutant Storage Tank Facilities contract

 

Review and evaluate closure reports, quality assurance plans, environmental audits, contamination assessment reports, and pollutant storage system construction plans. 

 

Perform preliminary discharge site inspections of potential ground water and soil contamination for underground and aboveground storage tanks.

 

Prepare all monthly, quarterly, and yearly status reports for various tanks and petroleum programs and shares them with supervisor and others as requested.

 

Manages the local government contracting for the petroleum restoration program and the storage tanks program in Polk County.

 

Reviews petroleum restoration contracts and works with DOH Legal, the Environmental Health Director and the FDEP program offices to negotiate and change contracts and task assignments. 

 

Contracted duties include the technical oversight of all phases of responsible party cleanups eligible for pre-approval, and technical and fiscal managem