TCEQ - Engineering Specialist III

Are you an experienced Engineering Specialist III, 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.

As part of TCEQ’s Office of Air, you would contribute to protecting and restoring Texas’ air quality. See details about what we do.

This position is a member of our Air Quality Division.

• Evaluate and prepare complex engineering reports of anthropogenic emissions inventory data. Run and/or develop ad hoc queries from program area databases (State of Texas Air Reporting System and/or Texas Air Emissions Repository), and develop visualizations (e.g., graphics, charts) based on retrieved data. Prepare datasets for posting on Microsoft Teams, the internet, or sharing with stakeholders, including legislative interests.

• Develop, coordinate, and complete complex emissions inventory projects, including state implementation plan (SIP) emissions inventories, ensuring agency, division, and section project management procedures are followed. Conduct project activities related to the development, quality assurance, and/or engineering evaluation of nonpoint emissions data for SIP purposes. Design internal applications and/or develop code for team projects to streamline and automate SIP emissions inventory calculations.

• Participate in global quality assurance efforts to improve emissions inventory datasets. Conduct quality assurance on anthropogenic emissions data from area and mobile sources using mathematical methods and computer models to verify emissions data and related calculations.

• Develop Microsoft Teams and Web applications and documents in coordination with the section's lead internet developer. Make applications and documents available on TCEQ external or internal websites and Teams channels. Review materials posted on agency websites for conformity to agency standards, including accessibility standards.

• Experience retrieving (querying), reviewing, and analyzing complex data sets.

• Experience calculating and reviewing emissions inventory data or other air emissions-related data.

• Experience creating and maintaining visualizations of data by using dashboards or other data visualization tools.

A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering, basic science, mathematics, environmental science, computer science or a related field, plus two years of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, or related assignments.

A master’s degree from an accredited college or university in the specified fields plus one year of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, or related assignments.

Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering examination may be substituted for six months of the required experience.

One year of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, or related assignments may be substituted for each year of the required education.

Employees in this classification series may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure, including but not limited to a communication infrastructure system, cybersecurity system, electric grid, hazardous waste treatment system, or water treatment facility. See Tex. Business & Commerce Code Section 117.001(2). Accordingly, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a requirement to be hired for and to continue to be employed with TCEQ.

See instructions on how to attach documents. A copy of your official college transcript or evaluation of foreign credentials in CAPPS is required if needed to meet the qualifications listed above.

This position is also available as a lateral transfer opportunity (LTO) to TCEQ employees within the Engineering Specialist IIIstate classification. The selected candidate must meet the minimum qualifications of the corresponding job in the Engineering Specialist IIIseries.

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