TCEQ - Environmental Permit Specialist IV-V

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality•Austin, TX

3d•$5,044 - $5,719

About The Position

ALL CANDIDATES MUST APPLY ON CAPPS JOB BOARD: https://capps.taleo.net/careersection/582/jobdetail.ftl?job=00052675&tz=GMT-06%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago Applicants that have already applied do not need to apply again. Are you an experienced Environmental Permit Specialist, ready for a unique opportunity to grow with an environmental state agency? Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our state’s public health and natural resources. YOUR FUTURE TEAM As part of TCEQ’s Office of Water, you would contribute to ensuring clean and available water and protecting Texas’ water resources. See details about what we do. This position is a member of our Water Quality Division. HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING Review and evaluate moderately-complex Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) pretreatment programs and participates in other pretreatment related activities for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Prepare, conduct, and document on-site audits of routine to moderately-complex approved pretreatment programs for compliance with TPDES permit requirements and state and federal statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines. Draft audit reports. Assist in preparing, conducting and documenting on-site audits of politically-sensitive pretreatment programs. Review and evaluate pretreatment program substantial and non-substantial modifications for compliance with TPDES permit requirements and state and federal statues, rules, policies, and guidelines. Conduct numerical analyses of local limits and incorporates the results into program modifications. Incorporate approved substantial modifications into TPDES permits. Prepare pretreatment sections of routine to moderately-complex TPDES permits in accordance with state and federal statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines. Evaluate pretreatment program annual reports; complete industrial waste surveys and TexTox reports; and make categorical determinations for industrial users. Participate in the resolution of contested permit applications, attends alternative dispute resolutions and public meetings, and prepares expert testimony for public hearings before an Administrative Law Judge or the Commission. Provide basic training to new or less experienced staff. Respond to inquiries on assigned permits, audits, and modifications to approved pretreatment programs. Prepare responses to comment documents, and revises associated documents as necessary. Communicate routine to moderately-complex information concerning the Pretreatment Program to control authorities, industrial users, agency staff, and the public. Attend meetings. Respond to telephone calls and letters received by the program. Provide routine public presentations and speeches.

Requirements

Experience with pretreatment regulations or in an approved municipal pretreatment program.
Environmental Permit Specialist III A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering, physical science, environmental science, or a related field, plus two years of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, or related work in environmental permitting or control activities.
Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering examination may be substituted for six months of the required experience.
A master’s degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of the required experience.
A doctoral degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for two years of the required experience.
Career Ladder Progression One year of full-time experience at TCEQ as an Environmental Permit Specialist II.
Environmental Permit Specialist IV A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering, physical science, environmental science, or a related field, plus four years of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, or related work in environmental permitting or control activities.
Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering examination may be substituted for six months of the required experience.
A master’s degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of the required experience.
A doctoral degree in the specified fields form an accredited college or university may substitute for two years of the required experience.
Career Ladder Progression Two years of full-time experience at TCEQ as an Environmental Permit Specialist II.
Environmental Permit Specialist V A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering, physical science, environmental science, or a related field, plus five years of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, or related work in environmental permitting or control activities.
Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering examination may be substituted for six months of the required experience.
A master’s degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of the required experience.
A doctoral degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for two years of the required experience.
Career Ladder Progression One year of full-time experience at TCEQ as an Environmental Permit Specialist IV performing work consistent with the examples of work performed

Responsibilities

Review and evaluate moderately-complex Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) pretreatment programs and participates in other pretreatment related activities for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
Prepare, conduct, and document on-site audits of routine to moderately-complex approved pretreatment programs for compliance with TPDES permit requirements and state and federal statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines.
Draft audit reports.
Assist in preparing, conducting and documenting on-site audits of politically-sensitive pretreatment programs.
Review and evaluate pretreatment program substantial and non-substantial modifications for compliance with TPDES permit requirements and state and federal statues, rules, policies, and guidelines.
Conduct numerical analyses of local limits and incorporates the results into program modifications.
Incorporate approved substantial modifications into TPDES permits.
Prepare pretreatment sections of routine to moderately-complex TPDES permits in accordance with state and federal statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines.
Evaluate pretreatment program annual reports; complete industrial waste surveys and TexTox reports; and make categorical determinations for industrial users.
Participate in the resolution of contested permit applications, attends alternative dispute resolutions and public meetings, and prepares expert testimony for public hearings before an Administrative Law Judge or the Commission.
Provide basic training to new or less experienced staff.
Respond to inquiries on assigned permits, audits, and modifications to approved pretreatment programs.
Prepare responses to comment documents, and revises associated documents as necessary.
Communicate routine to moderately-complex information concerning the Pretreatment Program to control authorities, industrial users, agency staff, and the public.
Attend meetings.
Respond to telephone calls and letters received by the program.
Provide routine public presentations and speeches.