Environmental Engineer

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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.

About 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.

Role Overview:

This position is responsible for conducting high level engineering assessments of Reasonably Available Control Technological applications to identify cost-effective emission limitations for sources in nonattainment areas classified as moderate or higher for ozone. This position is also responsible for providing technical support in the rule making process to ensure the limitations are federally approved into the State Implementation Plan and permanent and enforceable.

Additionally, this position is responsible for leading the Regional Haze planning process, which includes:
Determining source selection for 4-factor analyses based on Q/d analysis results:
Evaluating the 20% most anthropogenically impacted days through back trajectory analysis in order to develop the visibility glide paths at each Class I area Indiana impacts:
Evaluating visibility criteria for Class I areas and Indiana's modeled impacts on each of those Class I areas based on modeling results summarized within glide paths to determine if the Class I area is meeting the uniform rate of progress:
Evaluating monitored and modeled speciated data at the Class I areas to make contribution assessments from a state, regional and national prospective;
Evaluating source apportionment modeling results to summarize emission source sector contributions on visibility impacts, with focus on sources with higher Q/d values which would equate to higher potential visibility impact contributions:
Preparing Regional Haze State Implementation Elements for Indiana.

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 and specifications of facilities and conduct on-site inspections to ensure that they meet State of Indiana's standard guidelines.
• Conduct permit reviews including review of permit application documents, plans, specifications, 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…