TCEQ - Environmental Permit Specialist IV-V

Company Description

Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our state’s public health and natural resources.

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.

• 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.

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

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.

One year of full‑time experience at TCEQ as an Environmental Permit Specialist II.

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. 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 form an accredited college or university may substitute for two years of the required experience.