Environmental Engineering Specialist

Step into a role where your work protects the health of rivers and streams across Pennsylvania. As an Environmental Engineering Specialist with the Department of Environmental Protection, you will help guide important decisions that shape clean water efforts. This position offers the chance to support communities while building a strong and meaningful career. Apply today and become part of a team that safeguards our waterways!

This position plays a key role in reviewing applications and technical information that ensure wastewater systems meet state and federal laws. As a Environmental Engineering Specialist, you will perform the following duties:

• Permit Review: Conduct technical evaluations of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Water Quality Management applications to ensure compliance with environmental laws
• Effluent Analysis: Analyze data and establish limits that protect water quality in receiving streams
• Field Inspections: Perform site visits to observe facility conditions and confirm consistency with approved designs
• Interagency Coordination: Work with local, state, and federal partners to address questions and develop solutions
• Report Preparation: Draft documents, letters, and technical summaries that support permit decisions

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
• Occasional overnight travel for training and statewide meetings.
• Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, up to 3 days per week. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Norristown. The ability to telework is subject to change at any time.
  
  Additional details may be provided during the interview.
• Salary: S elected candidates who are new to employment with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will begin employment at the starting annual salary of $70,592.00 (before taxes).
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• One year of professional experience in environmental engineering, and possession of a valid Professional Engineer license issued by the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists;
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• Two years of professional experience in environmental engineering, and possession of a valid Engineer-in-Training certificate issued by or acceptable to the Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists;
  or
• Successful completion of the training program for Environmental Engineering Trainee (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration);
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• One year of professional experience in environmental engineering, and a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or in any engineering field that includes or is supplemented by 9 credits in environmental engineering.
• Graduate study in environmental engineering or in a closely related field may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

• This position requires possession of a valid driver’s license.

• PA residency requirement is currently waived for this title.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your…