TCEQ - Environmental Permit Specialist III

Organization

TCEQ - Environmental Permit Specialist III (  )

TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Texas-Austin

Headquarters (582-HQAUS) 12100 Park 35 Circle Austin 78753

Life, Physical, and Social Science

Regular

State Job Code : 2129EP

Salary Admin Plan : B

Grade : 20

5,044.00 - 5,044.00 ( Monthly )

1

Exempt

Closing Date :
Jan 9, 2026, 9:59:00 PM

Applicants that have already applied do not need to apply again.

Are you an 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 participate 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 statutes, rules, policies, and guidelines. Conduct numerical analyses of local limits and incorporate 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 Tex Tox reports; and make categorical determinations for industrial users. Participate in the resolution of contested permit applications, attend alternative dispute resolutions and public meetings, and prepare 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 revise 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.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with pretreatment regulations or in an approved municipal pretreatment program.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

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.

OR

A master’s degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of the required experience.

OR

A doctoral degree in the specified fields from an accredited college or university may substitute for two years of the required experience.

OR

Career Ladder Progression
:
One year of full-time experience at TCEQ as an Environmental Permit Specialist II.

Employees in this classification series may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure, including but not limited to a…