Environmental Engineer

Begin a fulfilling career with the State of Indiana by joining one of the largest employers in the state, offering a range of opportunities across 60+ agencies. At the state, you'll find competitive compensation, a robust benefits package and a commitment to work-life balance. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a real and measurable impact on the lives of Hoosiers across Indiana.

Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)

Our mission is to implement federal and state regulations to protect human health and the environment while allowing the environmentally sound operations of industrial, agricultural, commercial, and governmental activities vital to a prosperous economy. We issue air, water, and solid and hazardous waste permits that restrict discharges to environmentally safe levels. Staff members inspect and monitor regulated entities; provide compliance and technical assistance;

monitor and assess air, land, and water quality; use enforcement actions as necessary to ensure compliance; and respond to incidents involving spills to soil or waters of the state.

This role is responsible for reviewing permit applications and engineering designs in the Confined Feeding Program using 327 IAC 19 and/or to support the Remediation Branch performing technical reviews of remediation engineering projects. Site visits are also necessary to ensure that the permit applications and remediation projects meet State of Indiana's rules and guidance. In order to succeed in this role, the ideal candidate should have a fundamental knowledge of engineering;

a passion to protect human health and the environment; and effective writing skills. This is an office position with occasional site visits. A license to practice engineering is preferred but not required. An Indiana driver's license is required.

The salary for this position traditionally starts at $75,010.00 but may be commensurate with education and work experience. Use our Compensation Calculator to view the total compensation package.

The essential functions of this role are as follows:

• Perform detailed technical engineering reviews of facilities and perform site visits to ensure that they meet State of Indiana's standard guidelines.
• Conduct permit reviews including review of permit application documents, plans, specifications, calculations, design summaries and evaluating the compliance history.
• Conduct surveys, special problems investigations and inspections to collect data, collect samples for Lab analysis, prepare reports for administrative and/or regulatory action and may testify at hearings and in court.
• Review plans and specifications with emphasis on identifying deficiencies and potential problems and recommending sound alternatives.
• Ensure that facilities comply with safety requirements by conducting inspections, advise enforcement staff on technical issues, prepare or review enforcement documents; attend hearings, prehearing conferences, and preparatory meetings; and testify as an expert witness at hearings or in court.
• Provide prompt responses back to the general public, consultants, contractors, government officials, permit applicants.
• Serve as representative of agency on national associations concerned with standards applicable to revisions of design standards and discussion of new developments.
• Work as Subject Matter in the technical formulation of federal regulations and provides comment, on behalf of agency, to proposed rules and regulations of federal government and other states.
• Serve as project officer in certain sub‑grants and sub‑grantees, to determine efficient utilization of grant monies.
• Essential functions of this position require travel on most workdays to inspect, audit, examine, survey, or investigate clients, customers, or other regulated entities and write reports at those sites or employee’s home. Employee reports to the agency’s office for occasional meetings or events. Number and timing of work hours may vary daily or weekly to accommodate operational needs and staffing concerns at the client’s or customer’s worksite, minimize expenditures for repeated visits to complete the work, and allocate…