Tactical Project Support

Join a nationally significant recovery effort advancing a resilient, healthy Maui community. This role supports post-disaster rebuilding by aligning water, reuse, wastewater, stormwater, watershed, and cultural and historic resource outcomes under a unified One Water approach.

About the role

You will serve as part of a multidisciplinary team, translating complex recovery challenges into actionable strategies through effective facilitation, engagement, and cross-agency coordination that directly supports community rebuilding and long-term sustainability. Working alongside County leadership and partners, you will help advance standardized recovery operations, governance, and engagement practices that promote transparency, informed decision-making, and delivery of resilient infrastructure. This work supports Maui’s long-term recovery and climate resilience goals while ensuring that rebuilding efforts strengthen essential systems and community outcomes.

The Environmental Engineering role performs a broader range of environmental engineering tasks related to the analysis, planning, and development of solutions that promote environmental protection, water use sustainability, and responsible water resource management. Working under general supervision of a professional engineer, this role contributes to technical work that improves environmental and public health outcomes across natural and engineered systems. This engineering position addresses environmental and public health protection, mitigation, and prevention of degradation of water, soils, air quality, and habitats. This role may work in one or more diverse areas including water and wastewater treatment and conveyance, stormwater management, solid waste management, hazardous waste management, and related areas.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical analyses to support identification and evaluation of sustainable water and wastewater management solutions.
• Prepare and review technical reports and documentation related to environmental engineering projects.
• Assist in the planning and design of environmental protection systems to support public and ecosystem health.
• Contribute to facility, watershed, or strategic resource management plans.
• Analyze scientific and engineering data and perform quality control checks to support regulatory compliance.
• Provide technical support for environmental projects, including modeling of treatment and conveyance systems, vendor coordination, and technical input for permitting and regulatory approvals.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.

Mentorship

May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Preferred Requirements

• Identifies and escalates, and supports stabilization, of urgent issues through project team and program manager.
• Provides time-bound delivery support through rapid problem-solving, and organized project and issue management.
• Internal and client cross-department coordination.

Skills and Competencies

• Working knowledge of environmental engineering principles and standard practices.
• Developing problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to interpret scientific and engineering data with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Key Characteristics

• Highly responsive
• Adaptable
• Action-oriented
• Trusted helper
• Accountable and reliable

Qualifications

• Typically, a minimum of 2 years of related work experience in Environmental Engineering or related field.
• Typically certified in the SMS Framework, and progressing through the SMS competencies.
• A bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering or related field is required.

Pay

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may vary depending upon skills, experience, and education.

• Location A: $78,000 - $106,000
• Location B: $85,000 - $116,000
• Location C: $93,000 - $127,000

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success which includes:

• Medical, dental, vision
• Short and long-term disability, life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Performance-based bonus eligibility
• Employee referral bonuses
• Tuition reimbursement
• Pet insurance and long-term care insurance