Seeking resumes for an Environmental Specialist / Technical Writer in the Technical and Environmental Services Group, to provide support to the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) in Baltimore, MD. Primary duties will be to provide technical writing support services to the MDE Water Management Administrations Wastewater Permits Program. Specialist will review, comment, and edit the drafts of NPDES discharge permits produced by technical staff and the associated factsheets in order to improve the quality of the writing so that the documents are accurate and clear and to reduce the amount of time needed by the supervisor to review and approve the resulting documents. Specialist will assist permit writers in developing comment response documents to both oral and written comments received during the public participation process and use technical input from the permit writers to draft written responses to the issues raised. Specialist will assist municipal and industrial permit writing staff and two division chiefs to develop model factsheet and permit language and templates to improve permit writing efficiency. This is a 12-month position and is grant funded.