Environmental Specialist

What You’ll Do

• Lead agency response to invasive mussels in source water infrastructure.
• Develop control strategies to prevent and mitigate infrastructure and biological impacts.
• Cookordination monitoring programs for invasive species.
• Ensure compliance with state and federal water quality, environmental, and invasive species regulations.
• Cookordinate complex studies regarding environmental planning and regulatory compliance.
• Track pertinent laws, regulations, codes, and pending litigation.
• Analyze operational impacts of emerging environmental policies and regulations on Metropolitan.
• Represent the agency in meetings with stakeholders and serve as point-of-contact with regulators and outside agencies.
• Communicate and coordinate with member agencies on relevant environmental and water quality issues.

About the Role

The Environmental Specialist serves as an advanced, journey-level technical expert responsible for planning, conducting, coordinating, and monitoring complex environmental studies and projects for the Metropolitan Water District. At this recognized specialist level, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with source and treated water regulations with a strong focus on invasive mussel control and emerging regulations.

Responsibilities

You will spearhead the agency's strategic response to invasive mussels in source waters and ensure compliance with relevant environmental and water quality regulations, California Department of Fish and Wildlife mandates, and invasive species frameworks. You will also be responsible for tracking and ensuring compliance with environmental permitting and pesticide regulations, considerations for raw water releases, contributing to agency responses to federal and state regulatory developments, hazardous waste management, various aspects of source water protection, and preparing reports, response plans, and research proposals.

Daily duties include monitoring pertinent environmental laws, codes, regulations, and pending litigation that impact operations, as well as drafting actionable, high-level strategies and responses to address operational requirements and regulatory developments.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in environmental science, biology, chemistry, or a related field, supplemented by six years of progressive, professional environmental compliance experience that demonstrates mastery over multi-agency coordination and permitting and complex project management.

Qualifications

Your resume must at a minimum include the month and year you began and ended employment, name of the organization, your title, and a brief description of your experience. If your employment was part-time, make sure you identify it on your resume next to the month/year.

Skills

Relevant experience is defined as: experience with environmental planning analysis, preparation of relevant documentation, invasive species management and control, source water protection, project management, communication and coordination with regulatory and other external agencies.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Excellent medical, dental, life, vision plans.
Deferred compensation in the form of a 401(k) plan (with matching contribution) and a 457 plan.
Retirement benefits under the California Public Employees' Retirement System
Tuition reimbursement
Training and advancement opportunities
Excellent working environment
Public transportation reimbursements
Hub of public transportation: rail, subway, buses, and taxis
On-site fitness center

Pay

Schedule 9/80: Monday through Friday /Every other Friday off. Monday through Thursday 9 hours per day, 8 hours per day every other Friday. Start times are no earlier than 6 am and ending times are no later than 6 pm.

Schedule

Hybrid: Metropolitan’s current practice in this position is a hybrid work schedule. This typically includes two days a week in person and the other days remote. This is subject to change dependent on organizational needs.