Climate Program Engineer; Environmental Engineer​/Environmental Engineer - Underf

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If so, please consider a career with the State of Oregon at the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). At DEQ, employees have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and supportive team of mission-focused individuals tasked with maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the quality of Oregon’s air, land, and water.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has a full-time opportunity available for two Climate Program Engineers (Environmental Engineer 3 / Environmental Engineer 2 - Underfill). These positions will be located in Portland, Oregon.

Please consider joining an innovative team, and work to advance our agency’s mission to protect and improve Oregon’s environmental quality.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is the primary regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. State of Oregon responsible for protecting and enhancing the state's natural resources.

These positions will be joining an innovative and multi-faceted team in DEQ’s Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs. The Office is responsible for leading the agency’s efforts to develop and implement statewide climate programs to reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions. This includes programs that collect data on Oregon’s greenhouse emissions and reduces the greenhouse gas intensity of Oregon’s transportation fuels. The Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs also analyzes various climate policies as they are proposed by policymakers.

The Climate Protection Program is another part of the Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs, which places a mandatory cap or limit on greenhouse gas emissions in multiple sectors across Oregon. The program is designed and implemented by a team of staff handling all facets of the program, including the declining emission cap on fossil fuel suppliers and certain trade exposed manufacturing facilities.

This position is a part of the Climate Protection Program team.

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You will serve as a project manager for the regulation of manufacturing facilities that operate in emissions-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industrial sectors. These sectors include paper and pulp mills, semiconductor manufacturers, iron and steel mills, chemical manufacturers, and concrete manufacturers. You will work with other technical staff within the Climate Protection section, other teams in the Office of Greenhouse Gas Programs, and relevant staff in DEQ’s regional offices to develop and implement regulations for these manufacturing facilities.

You will collect and review detailed information on these facilities to assess emission reduction equipment, processes, strategies, and technologies. You will review facility process flow diagrams, production practices, control devices, pollution reduction activities, and associated engineering documents. You will research and analyze emission reduction options within similar industrial sectors to identify and evaluate potential options to reduce these emissions in Oregon.

You will track and evaluate program implementation and develop…