TCEQ - Engineer VI

About the role

Join the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Office of Air as a professional engineer, contributing to the protection and restoration of Texas’ air quality. External candidates selected for this role may receive a $5,000 recruitment bonus.

Responsibilities

• Review advanced and high-profile air permit applications, ensuring high-quality work and meeting established timeframes.
• Conduct comprehensive technical reviews, including defining contaminant sources, applying federal and state requirements, reviewing emission calculations, drafting permit documents, and completing technical review summaries.
• Prepare public notice authorizations and associated tasks.
• Provide quality customer service to applicants, agency staff, other state/federal agencies, elected officials, stakeholders, and the public regarding permitting processes and technical completeness.
• Provide highly technical support on policies and procedures related to the air permitting program.
• Lead and attend technical training activities for major and minor permit reviews.
• Participate in division, section, and team meetings.
• Coordinate and manage special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Experience communicating, both written and verbally, with senior leadership.
• Experience preparing and conducting presentations and training.
• Texas Professional Engineer’s license plus five years of full-time engineering experience beyond licensure (post-licensure experience as an engineering graduate student or teacher qualifies).
• OR one year of full-time experience at TCEQ as an Engineer V.

Employees may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure; maintaining its security or integrity is a condition of employment.

Qualifications

A copy of your official college transcript or evaluation of foreign credentials may be required to verify qualifications.

Benefits

• Optional participation in 401(k) and 457 retirement plans.
• Health, vision, dental, and optional FSAP insurance.
• Paid holidays observed by the state.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Longevity pay based on years of state service.
• Wellness programs and activities.
• Onsite nurse practitioner at TCEQ Austin Headquarters.

Schedule

Standard business hours are Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; individual and work group schedules are set by the TCEQ Austin Headquarters Office.