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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER I

Washoe County · Reno, NV · 1 mo ago
Engineering$40/hrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Position: Environmental Engineer II (but we don't repeat title) - Under supervision, performs a broad range of entry level engineering assignments requiring the application of public health, environmental, and civil engineering principles, practices, and theories; and performs related work as required. - This is an Open Competitive/Countywide Promotional recruitment being conducted to fill a current full-time vacancy in the Community Services Department. - The list established from this recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies throughout the County as they occur. - This position is in a flexibly staffed class series. The hiring department has the discretion to hire at any level within the class series for which the applicant may be qualified. Applicants interested in being considered for each level within the series must submit an application for each position. - For more information on this position, please see the Job Specification at https://www.washoecounty.gov/humanresources/Careers/jobspecs.php - Minimum Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in civil engineering, hydrology, sanitary engineering, environmental engineering or a closely related field; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience. - License Or Certificate: A valid driver's license is required at the time of appointment and must be maintained for continued employment in this classification. - The Ideal Candidate Will Possess: list of bullet points (strong analytical and problem-solving skills..., ability to interpret engineering plans..., comfortable performing field work..., excellent written and verbal communication skills..., organized, detail-oriented..., enjoy working both in office and field..., demonstrate strong commitment..., work collaboratively..., embrace public service...). These are skills/qualities. - Conditions of Employment: includes WCEA Non-Supervisory CBA covers the Environmental Engineer II position. Background checks will be conducted... Effective Oct 1, 2026, $40 fee associated with background investigation will be paid by employee... Employment contingent upon results... Washoe County requires its employees to reside in the state of Nevada or neighboring California communities such as Truckee, South Lake Tahoe or Susanville as of their first day of work. Washoe County hires all new employees at the minimum rate of the salary range and eligible employees may receive an annual merit increase of 5% until they reach the maximum salary for the classification. Upon promotion, current Washoe County employees are placed at the minimum rate of the salary range for the higher classification of the new position OR a promotional calculation, whichever is greater. - What Happens Next: details about application screening, appeal, exam, etc. This is procedural; maybe we can include under "Application Process" but not required sections. The instruction says to include sections only when posting has real specific content for it. We have sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications + license), Qualifications (maybe ideal candidate?), Skills (maybe from ideal candidate), Benefits (maybe mention total compensation package link?), Pay (salary range info?), Schedule (maybe not given). We need to decide. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info. So we need to include details like total compensation package link, benefits description (county paid employee health benefits after 30 days, county paid retirement benefits, vacation accruals, etc). That is in first line: "Please click here for the Total Compensation Package for this job classification which includes county paid employee health benefits after 30 days of employment, county paid retirement benefits, vacation accruals, etc. The Total Compensation Package outlines the various benefits offered by Washoe County and the annual earnings based on the entry level salary for the job classification." Thus we have Benefits section content: link to Total Compensation Package, includes health benefits after 30 days, retirement benefits, vacation accruals, etc. Also mentions annual earnings based on entry level salary. Pay: The posting mentions "Washoe County hires all new employees at the minimum rate of the salary range and eligible employees may receive an annual merit increase of 5% until they reach the maximum salary for the classification." Also "Upon promotion, current Washoe County employees are placed at the minimum rate of the salary range for the higher classification of the new position OR a promotional calculation, whichever is greater." That's pay info. So we can include Pay section with that detail. Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly. No mention of work schedule (full-time? It says full-time vacancy). It says "This is an Open Competitive/Countywide Promotional recruitment being conducted to fill a current full-time vacancy". So schedule could be full-time. But is that specific enough? It says full-time vacancy. That is schedule info. We could include Schedule section with "Full-time". However instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state full-time vacancy, so we can include Schedule with "Full-time". That's specific. Now we need to decide sections: About the role (maybe summary of role), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications + license), Qualifications (maybe ideal candidate?), Skills (maybe from ideal candidate), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we must avoid duplication. The ideal candidate list includes skills and qualities; we could put them under Skills. Requirements could be minimum qualifications and license. Qualifications could be education/experience? Actually Minimum Qualifications is a qualification. Could combine Requirements and Qualifications? But we need to follow instruction: Use headings for sections if they have real specific content. We can have multiple sections; but we should not create thin sections. Ideally we combine related info. We could structure: - About the role: summary paragraph describing role (under supervision, performs broad range... etc.) - Responsibilities: maybe list of duties? The posting doesn't have a explicit list of duties beyond the broad range statement. Could treat that as responsibilities. But we already used that in About the role. Might be duplication. Better: About the role: brief description of role and context (Open Competitive/Countywide Promotional recruitment, full-time vacancy, flexibly staffed class series, etc.) Responsibilities: the bullet of performing entry level engineering assignments, applying principles, performing related work as required. Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (degree or equivalent) + License (valid driver's license). Qualifications: maybe not needed if we covered requirements. But we could have Qualifications as "Ideal Candidate Will Possess" list. Skills: maybe same as Qualifications? Could combine. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can have: - About the role - Responsibilities - Requirements - Ideal Candidate (Skills & Qualities) - Benefits - Pay - Schedule That seems reasonable. Now we need to format: Use

for section headings. Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include the link to Total Compensation Package, mention health benefits after 30 days, retirement benefits, vacation accruals, etc. Also mention that the package outlines various benefits and annual earnings based on entry level salary. We need to include the link to Job Specification. We need to include details about background check, residency requirement, salary range info, merit increase, promotional calculation. We need to include details about exam process? That's procedural; maybe not needed for sections but we could include under "Application Process" but not required. The instruction says to include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. It doesn't forbid adding extra sections not listed, but we should stick to the given headings. However we could add other sections if we want, but better to stick to the list. Thus we will output sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Ideal Candidate (maybe as Skills), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what to put under each. About the role: Could include: "Under supervision, performs a broad range of entry level engineering assignments requiring the application of public health, environmental, and civil engineering principles, practices, and theories; and performs related work as required. This is an Open Competitive/Countywide Promotional recruitment being conducted to fill a current full-time vacancy in the Community Services Department. The list established from this recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies throughout the County as they occur. This position is in a flexibly staffed class series. The hiring department has the discretion to hire at any level within the class series for which the applicant may be qualified. Applicants interested in being considered for each level within the series must submit an application for each position. For more information on this position, please see the Job Specification at https://www.washoecounty.gov/humanresources/Careers/jobspecs.php" That seems like a good prose paragraph. Responsibilities: Could be a list: maybe just one item: "Perform entry level engineering assignments applying public health, environmental, and civil engineering principles, practices, and theories; perform related work as required." Could also include field work, sample collection, etc. But those are in Ideal Candidate. However responsibilities could be the core duties. We'll keep simple. Requirements: List: "Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in civil engineering, hydrology, sanitary engineering, environmental engineering or a closely related field; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience." and "Valid driver's license required at time of appointment and must be maintained for continued employment." Ideal Candidate (Skills): We'll put as a list of bullet points from "The Ideal Candidate Will Possess". We'll need to preserve all bullet points exactly. Let's extract them: - strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate technical data, perform engineering calculations, and develop practical, effective solutions to environmental engineering challenges. - ability to interpret engineering plans, technical reports, regulations, and environmental standards. - comfortable performing field work, including collecting water quality and environmental samples, analyzing monitoring data, and using field observations to support engineering evaluations and regulatory compliance. - excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical information to coworkers, developers, consultants, regulatory agencies, and the public. - organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects and priorities while producing accurate, high-quality work and meeting established deadlines. - enjoy working both in the office and in the field, adapting to a variety of engineering assignments, water quality sampling, site inspections and project needs. - demonstrate a strong commitment to environmental stewardship, public health, regulatory compliance, and the delivery of exceptional public service. - work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders to achieve practical, timely and effective project outcomes while fostering positive working relationships. - embrace public service while seeking innovative, practical solutions to complex environmental engineering challenges. We need to keep them as list items. Benefits: Include: "Please click here for the Total Compensation Package for this job classification which includes county paid employee health benefits after 30 days of employment, county paid retirement benefits, vacation accruals, etc. The Total Compensation Package outlines the various benefits offered by Washoe County and the annual earnings based on the entry level salary for the job classification." Also maybe include link? The link is "Please click here for the Total Compensation Package". The actual URL not given; it's just "click here". We can't invent URL. We'll keep the phrase as is, maybe as a link? But we don't have actual URL. We'll keep the text as is, maybe wrap in ? Not needed. We'll just keep the sentence. Pay: Include: "Washoe County hires all new employees at the minimum rate of the salary range and eligible employees may receive an annual merit increase of 5% until they reach the maximum salary for the classification. Upon promotion, current Washoe County employees are placed at the minimum rate of the salary range for the higher classification of

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