Supervisory Environmental Program Manager

Role overview

This position is based at Fort Gordon, Georgia and serves as the senior leader for environmental program execution. The role combines division leadership, technical oversight, and strategic coordination across compliance, conservation, restoration, and pollution prevention activities.

Key duties

• Lead the Environmental Division and act as the primary staff advisor on all environmental program matters.
• Stay current on evolving environmental rules, standards, and policy changes.
• Direct staff responsible for the full Army Environmental Program, including compliance, pollution prevention, installation restoration, and conservation.
• Oversee planning and execution of environmental compliance, conservation, restoration, and pollution prevention initiatives.
• Build and guide plans for specialized environmental efforts such as hazardous waste management, environmental quality recognition programs, and trash separation or recycling.
• Carry out site visits to assess installation environmental programs.
• Deliver oral presentations and briefings at the installation level and above when required.
• Take part in community and statewide environmental groups to support the success of the installation’s environmental mission.

Conditions of employment

• Employment is contingent on a suitability or fitness determination based on a completed background investigation.
• The incumbent must be able to obtain and keep eligibility for a Secret clearance, or equivalent access, throughout employment.
• A valid driver’s license from any U.S. state or territory is required and must be maintained to operate government vehicles.
• A one-year supervisory probationary period is required unless it has already been completed.
• Business travel or temporary duty travel is expected about 10% of the time.

Qualification requirements

Applicants must be U.S. citizens. This is a federal supervisory position with strict qualification rules. The selected candidate must qualify through experience alone; education cannot be substituted for the required experience. The announcement also notes that foreign education must be validated by an approved credential evaluation if it is being used to meet any education-based requirement.

The role calls for at least one year of specialized experience at the GS-13 level or equivalent, including leading engineering professionals, managing environmental cleanup and compliance projects, planning environmental program work, coordinating technical actions with stakeholders, resolving disputes, and reviewing quality assurance and quality control for contract packages.

Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must complete the Selective Service certification statement.
• Proof of U.S. citizenship is required.
• The position includes a one-year probationary period during which fitness and continued employment in the public interest are reviewed.
• Direct deposit is mandatory.
• Selection may be affected by Department of Defense referral rules for displaced employees.
• This is a CP-16 career field position.
• Multiple vacancies may be filled from this announcement.
• Pay includes locality pay or a local market supplement where applicable.
• PCS-related entitlements may be taxable under IRS rules.
• Permanent change of station allowances may be authorized if the move is determined to be in the Government’s interest.
• Recruitment or relocation incentives may be offered.
• Student loan repayment may be authorized.
• Salary negotiations may be possible for candidates new to federal service.
• The posting ends with a reference to prior non-federal work experience credit, but the text is incomplete.

Education and background note

The source text includes several alternate qualification pathways tied to archeology, engineering, natural resource management, and physical science degrees. However, the actual role description and specialized experience clearly center on environmental program leadership. All qualification text has been preserved here as supplied, including the mixed and incomplete requirements language.