Water Technical Reviewer

Title: NRO - P0070 - Water Technical Reviewer

State Role Title: Environmental Specialist II

Hiring Range: $60,000 - $93,000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Dept of Environmental Quality

Location: Northern Regional Office

Agency Website: www.deq.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Dept of Environmental Quality's Northern Regional Office seeks a qualified candidate to review permit applications and permit related operation-design submittals for applicability and completeness and to develop and write enforceable permits for issuance in a timely manner, which are technically and procedurally accurate in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, written guidance, and procedures. To provide technical support for permit related compliance and enforcement actions by working with clients to resolve issues efficiently, openly, fairly and consistently.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge, gained through education and/or experience, of environmental engineering principles and practices and environmental law and regulations
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Knowledge, skills and abilities in project management and personal computer operations, including word processing, spreadsheets and database management
• Ability to read, interpret, and properly apply complex policies, guidelines, and regulations
• Ability to read and evaluate applications and engineering analyses, permits and related correspondence
• Must be sensitive to public attitudes and concerns while effectively carrying out the agency mission
• Technical competencies include chemistry, statistics, water quality modeling, and aquatic biology
  
  

Key Competencies Include

Self-management/personal development, demonstrated by items as:

• being punctual
• making effective use of work time and resources
• being well organized
• setting own deadlines to meet workloads
• following procedures
• seeking and assuming additional responsibilities and opportunities to enhance knowledge
• working well with others through a supportive team-oriented attitude
• presenting a professional appearance and behavior
  
  

Work Processes And Results Demonstrated By Items As

• providing products and services which meet customer needs
• collecting and evaluating relevant information to make sound decisions
• using established procedures
• meeting deadlines
• producing work which is accurate, timely, technically and grammatically correct
• writing clearly and succinctly
• maintaining satisfactory progress on multiple assignments
• paying attention to details
  
  

Communication, Demonstrated By Items As

• participating in meetings in an active, cooperative and courteous manner
• communicating effectively, both orally and in writing and in a timely manner
• listening to others with undivided attention
• keeping personal and confidential information discrete
• responding to e-mails, phone messages and mail in a timely manner
• keeping the manager properly advised of work status and significant items
  
  

Consistency, Demonstrated By Items As

• ensuring that guidance/information provided to customers is consistent from an agency and regional perspective
• ensuring that permits are consistent for similar facilities from a regional basis
  
  

Additional Considerations

Combination of education or training with major coursework in environmental engineering and/or natural science or a combination of work experience and education demonstrating an equivalent technical background