Featured Job: Climate Engagement Specialist
Closing Date/Time: Mon. 04/25/16 4:30 PM Salary: $78,644.80 – $99,673.60 Annually Job Type: Career Service, Full Time, 40 hrs/week Location: King Street Center – 201 S Jackson St, Seattle, Washington Department: Department of Natural Resources & Parks – Director’s Office Description: This position will act as King County’s climate engagement and communications lead and will work across King County agencies to implement the commitments of King County’s 2015 SCAP. This position will require strong engagement in ways that help support, communicate and bring funding to diverse climate-related projects and programs. This role… Read More
Five Questions with Emmanuel Rivera, Health & Environmental Investigator III, Natural Resources & Parks
1. What was your first role at King County? My first role at King County involved working within the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program (LHWMP) as a Health and Environmental Investigator. As part of the Survey Team, I did business cold calls throughout King County regarding proper use, storage and disposal of hazardous products and waste. 2. What do you do as a Health and Environmental Investigator? As an HE&I III, I am currently the outreach coordinator for LHWMP’s Indoor Chemical Hazards project. My primary function is to provide outreach to underserved… Read More
Environmental Lab protects local waters and public health
With more and more people enjoying water activities across our region each year, the work of the King County Environmental Laboratory is more important than ever in protecting the health of local waterways, wildlife and people. With five different lab areas, Lab employees are constantly collecting samples, analyzing environmental samples and generating data to protect the environment and those that live in it, Kate Leone, the Environmental Programs Section Manager, said. Unlike other laboratories, the Lab is a full service lab, meaning it runs through all the steps, from project planning, sample collection and testing, through to data generation. It processes… Read More
Transportation program helps employees, environment and the region
With congestion on our roads growing as King County continues to grow, the Employee Transportation Program (ETP) is helping employees save money and time while reducing our impact on the environment with benefits including free rides on all regional buses, Sounder trains, Link light rail, Seattle Streetcar and the West Seattle and Vashon Island Water Taxis. But the benefits don’t stop there. “We aim to make it as easy as possible for our employees to leave their cars at home,” Hossein Barahimi said. As ETP Manager, Barahimi is in charge of developing… Read More
Five Questions with Jim Chan, Assistant Director for Permitting, Department of Permitting and Environmental Review
1. What was your first role at King County? I was hired as a summer intern in my junior year at the University of Washington, working for the Building and Land Use Department as an Engineer Assistant. I reviewed residential building permit applications, drove throughout the county visiting development sites and met with property owners and consultants. 2. Why did you choose King County as an employer? While a student at the UW, I worked for a professor making $4.50 an hour counting cars on overpasses. The Building and Land Use Department was… Read More
Native Plant Salvage Program promotes financial and environmental sustainability
A small team of King County employees and many volunteers are making sure that native plants that would be impacted by development projects are finding new homes in revegetation and habitat restoration projects across the county. This season alone, 11,260 native plants were salvaged for the Water and Land Resource Division’s Native Plant Salvage Program. “The cool thing about this is that plants get used all over King County and not just on County-sponsored projects,” said Cindy Young, the ecologist who heads up the program. Volunteers also get to salvage plants for… Read More
State of the County 2014: Building Equity, Confronting Climate Change
King County Executive Dow Constantine outlined an agenda for addressing what many consider to be the generational challenges of our time in the first State of the County address ever delivered from an unincorporated area of King County. At a special meeting of the Metropolitan King County Council on February 10 at White Center Heights Elementary School, Executive Constantine framed his policy agenda for meeting two of the “greatest generational challenges” of our time: building equity and opportunity, and confronting climate change – Building equity will mean creating access to opportunity – access… Read More
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