TCEQ - Engineer I

About the role

Join TCEQ’s Office of Air as part of the Stationary Source Programs Team in the Air Quality Planning Section. You will help write rules to ensure Texas’ nonattainment areas meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards and address visibility impairment in areas such as national parks.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine to moderately complex engineering work for planning, developing, and implementing stationary source control strategies and associated rules, including:
  • Reviewing and evaluating regulations, standards, procedures, and technologies for potential control strategies
  • Calculating costs and evaluating emissions inventory and other data
  • Estimating potential emission reductions
  • Developing spreadsheets to evaluate control strategy effectiveness in coordination with modeling section
  • Researching, developing, and evaluating programs with TCEQ offices and external organizations
• Coordinate and draft revisions to air quality regulations, State Implementation Plan revisions, policies, or procedures in response to federal or state requirements, agency initiatives, or rulemaking petitions, including:
  • Providing technical assistance on rule projects as a rule team member
  • Coordinating rule projects as rule team project manager
• Evaluate and recommend responses to requests for rule interpretations using rule language, preambles, background documents, and prior interpretations
• Communicate the status of rule or policy development activities to section management, agency staff, other state/federal agencies, affected entities, environmental organizations, and the public; facilitate open negotiations via telephone calls and other correspondence
• Participate in and represent the agency at internal and external meetings, workshops, and trainings
• Coordinate and assist team members with stakeholder group activities
• Coordinate, organize, and implement special assignments involving evaluating engineering data; completing or coordinating research and analysis; preparing required reports and recommendations; presenting reports; and developing implementation plans or documents

Requirements

• Experience working in the environmental field
• Experience with/training in advanced technical writing, data analysis, or fiscal analysis
• Experience with/training in sources of air emissions or air pollution control technologies
• Experience manipulating data in spreadsheets or database format
• Texas Professional Engineer’s license

Employees in this classification series may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure; accordingly, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a requirement to be hired for and to continue employment with TCEQ.

Benefits

• Optional 401(k) and 457 plans
• Insurance: Health, Vision, Dental, and optional FSAP
• Paid day(s) off on national and state-observed holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Longevity pay based on years of state service
• Wellness program and activities
• Onsite Nurse Practitioner at HQ
• Work-life balance

Candidates external to TCEQ will be eligible to receive a $5,000 recruitment bonus if selected.