Environmental Compliance Inspector

The Environmental Services Department is currently looking to hire One regular full-time Environmental Compliance Inspector. The list established from this recruitment may be used to fill future Environmental Compliance Inspector vacancies.

The Environmental Services Department provides comprehensive and innovative environmental utility services for Sunnyvale's residents and businesses and facilitates initiatives to achieve the City's sustainability objectives. The department brings together technical, operational, and administrative professional disciplines to form its dedicated and dynamic team.

These programs help protect our waterways and the San Francisco Bay by ensuring that businesses and residents are implementing best management practices to prevent water pollution and are in compliance with Federal and local water quality regulations. Environmental Compliance Inspectors work closely with a wide variety of businesses to ensure that the composition of their wastewater is in compliance with City requirements and does not compromise the integrity of the City's Water Pollution Control Plant or the sewer collection system.

Such businesses range from aerospace and semiconductor manufacturers to dental offices and restaurants. The inspection team is also advancing multiple stormwater initiatives such as trash reduction and controls for pollutants of concern such as mercury and PCBs.

Under general direction, performs journey level inspection and enforcement activities on industrial, commercial, and residential discharges to the sewage and storm drain system for compliance with codes and laws regulating waste processes; and does other related work, as required.

The Environmental Compliance Inspector is the journey level classification in the Environmental Compliance Inspector series and is expected to interpret regulations and initiate appropriate enforcement action after identifying noncompliance with local, state, or federal requirements. Incumbents perform the full range of inspection, sampling, monitoring and enforcement activities. This position is distinguished from that of Senior Environmental Compliance Inspector, which is a lead position and provides technical guidance and coordination to Environmental Compliance Inspectors and performs the more complex technical regulatory work.

• Performs inspections and sampling of industrial, commercial, and residential sources of discharges to the wastewater and storm drain systems.
• Inspects facility wastewater-generating processes and wastewater treatment equipment.
• Inspects non-point sources and responds to complaints of illegal discharges or connections to stormwater collection system per federal, state and local requirements.
• Reviews building plans and performs post-construction inspections of applicable new and redevelopment projects' Best Management Practices (BMP) for stormwater treatment and flow control to meet local Stormwater Permit and Sunnyvale Municipal Code requirements.
• Reviews, and evaluates various technical reports submitted by industrial facilities in order to determine discharge compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Installs, calibrates and monitors sampling equipment such as, field flow and data collection devises to ensure proper functioning; conducts sampling according to established and/or regulatory protocol and procedures.
• Performs technical calculations to derive accurate and defensible pollutant limits.
• Reviews and approves industrial and commercial discharge permit applications and issues appropriate permits.
• Issues orders to enforce the provisions of industrial…