TCEQ - Emissions Evaluator V

Job Description

Emissions Evaluator, 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 Ambient Monitoring Section of the Air Monitoring Division.

• Operate, maintain, repair, and calibrate advanced state-of-the-art monitoring equipment. Collect and report air monitoring data during emergency events or planned projects.
• Supervise and/or oversee programs, special projects, and activities in the planning and execution of mobile air monitoring for emergency response and/or planned events. Perform data analysis, interprets data, performs quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) procedures, and reports analytical results.
• Develop, review, and present highly complex project plans, briefings, and reports related to air monitoring to meet management and stakeholder requirements. Review of highly complex technical reports and test protocols.
• Provide technical assistance to agency staff, the public, and the regulated community on complex environmental monitoring activities. Provide mentorship or training for staff. Develop and review complex equipment standard operation procedures (SOPs), data handling initiatives, preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting procedures for complex monitoring instruments and related software.
• Research and lead evaluation/validation of new technologies, method development, testing, and fielding of new monitoring instruments. Develop specifications for the purchase of complex analytical equipment, standards, and reagents. Coordinate the design and configurations of mobile air monitoring systems. Operate computer hardware and software for complex monitoring and/or analytical operations.

• Experience operating, maintaining, repairing, or calibrating environmental monitoring equipment. Experience with air monitoring equipment and chemical analysis instrumentation, (e.g., mass spectrometry, ultraviolet spectrometry, infrared spectrometry, or other analytical instrumentation).
• Experience planning, overseeing and/or leading complex projects and/or programs.
• Experience developing, reviewing, and presenting highly complex project plans, presentations, briefings, reports, or quality assurance documents such as standard operating procedures.
• Experience with performing data analysis, interpreting data, performing quality assurance and quality control procedures, or reporting analytical results.

A bachelor's degree with a major in engineering, basic science, mathematics, environmental science, or a related field from an accredited college or university, plus five years of full-time experience in performing engineering, technical, analytical, or related work in environmental control activities. Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering examination may be substituted for six months of the required experience. One year of full-time experience in the field of environmental control activities may substitute for each year (30 semester hours) of the required education.

One year of graduate work (24 semester hours) from an accredited college or university in the specified fields may substitute for one year of the required experience with a maximum substitution of two years. 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…