Environmental Compliance Management Professional Senior

About the role

The Public Works Department is accepting applications to fill one full-time Environmental Compliance Management Professional Senior vacancy in the Resource Recovery & Waste Management Division.

Responsibilities

• Conducts advanced field inspections and environmental monitoring to assess project needs, evaluate environmental impacts, ensure compliance with permit requirements, and recommend corrective actions.
• Prepares, reviews, and oversees complex environmental documents and permit applications—including EIRs, EISs, environmental assessments, negative declarations, and categorical exemptions—and presents findings at public hearings and regulatory meetings.
• Interprets and applies federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations; negotiates mitigation measures and permit conditions; and serves as a technical consultant on environmental compliance and permitting strategies.
• Led multi-disciplinary project teams consisting of County staff, consultants, contractors, and external stakeholders to ensure successful project planning, coordination, and delivery.
• Initiates and manages feasibility studies, environmental studies, cost estimates, schedules, and project development programs; evaluates alternatives and recommends solutions.
• Tracks and monitors project activities and construction work to ensure compliance with plans, specifications, environmental conditions, codes, budgets, schedules, and documentation requirements.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates environmental compliance programs, operational procedures, and service delivery standards to support departmental and County strategic goals.
• Develops and administers budgets, procurement activities, contracts, and consultant agreements; performs fiscal analysis, cost control review, auditing, and payment approval activities.
• Conducts research and analysis on regulatory trends, operational issues, and program performance; prepares reports and recommendations; and resolves programmatic and operational issues using independent judgment.
• Serves as a technical resource to departments, programs, and project teams; provides expert guidance, direction, and support on environmental compliance and County operations.
• Reviews and analyzes departmental operations, programs, activities, and budgets to identify opportunities for organizational, procedural, and policy improvements.
• Plans, develops, and implements programs, projects, operational strategies, corrective action plans, and special initiatives aligned with County goals and regulatory requirements.
• Oversees consultant activities and implementation strategies, including RFP development, contract negotiation, workflow management, performance monitoring, and technical guidance to departments and leadership.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with elected and appointed officials, County staff, regulatory agencies, consultants, community organizations, and the public.
• Facilitates meetings, provides direction, and promotes effective problem-solving and communication in interdepartmental and interagency collaboration efforts.
• Prepares and presents complex reports, correspondence, recommendations, and technical information to management, boards, commissions, regulatory agencies, and community groups.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Make effective presentations to the community and the media.
• Understand, interpret, explain, and apply complex rules and procedures.
• Analyze systems and administrative and management practices and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse range of individuals, including but not limited to coworkers, subordinate staff, supervisors, other managers, professional agencies, and the general public.

Requirements

• Equivalent of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in a field related to environmental compliance.
• Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience involving planning, analysis, coordination, and evaluation in a field related to environmental compliance.

Qualifications

• Equivalent of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university in a field related to environmental compliance.
• Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience involving planning, analysis, coordination, and evaluation in a field related to environmental compliance.

Skills

• Experience preparing reports for regulatory agencies.
• Solution and customer service-oriented experience.
• Ability to work in a public sector, municipality, or special district setting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain sound working relationships with diverse people and personalities.
• Strong understanding of best practices in performance management.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$108,517.76 - $138,500.96

Schedule

Not specified.