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Agency: Environmental Protection
Working Title: ENGINEERING SPECIALIST III - 37011364
Pay Plan: Career Service
Your Specific Responsibilities:
External Compliance Assistance, Outreach, Training, and Partnership Implementation – Targets specific areas of regulatory non-compliance within the Southeast District and coordinates engineering compliance assistance efforts with that industry.
- Conducts compliance/technical assistance site visits of regulated facilities to increase engineering compliance rates.
- Seeks and cultivates positive partnering relationships with industry and regulated facilities to increase or maintain the highest possible compliance rates.
- Provides education and guidance to residential, commercial, institutional, and public sectors.
- Supports, develops, participates, and/or assists in the execution of compliance assistance workshops for the regulated community.
Internal Training, Consulting, and Organizational Improvement - Supports efforts to determine training needs of Department staff.
- When directed, conduct peer review of work products for accuracy.
- Provides engineering technical assistance as needed.
- Evaluates and makes recommendations on training material and methodology.
- Participates, develops, and leads training activities and safety events.
Compliance – In general, this position may conduct engineering inspections at facilities and sites known to be moderately to highly complex in multiple program areas.
- Plans and conducts inspections, site visits, sampling/testing, and/or other required field work.
- Produces timely and accurate documentation of inspections, site visits, or field work.
- Provides compliance assistance to regulated facilities before, during, and after inspections.
Permitting and Waste Cleanup – In general, this position may review and process moderately to highly complex engineering permit applications and technical documents in multiple program areas.
- Reviews permit applications, plans, specifications, and reports for assigned programs.
- Ascertains that all Department rules are met.
- Recommends issuance or denial of permits as appropriate.
Technical Assistance - Provides technical assistance to applicants, Utilities, and engineers as regards to department rules, guidelines, and policies on regulated entities.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to determine work priorities and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
- Ability to understand and apply applicable regulations, policies, and procedures relating to environmental programs.
- Ability to communicate in an effective, tactful, and courteous manner, both verbally and in writing.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in Natural Science or Engineering from an accredited college or university; or Any combination of post-secondary education or verifiable related experience, as described in this posting, for a total of four years (Preferred).
DEP is committed to successfully recruiting and onboarding talented and skilled individuals into its workforce.
