WE ARE TCEQ
Are you ready to make a positive impact in Texas? At Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, protecting the environment is at the heart of everything we do. Choose a career where your perspective, passion, and skills are valued.
We strive to protect our state’s public health and natural resources consistent with sustainable economic development. Our goal is clean air, clean water, and the safe management of waste.
TCEQ employees get some great perks, including a hybrid work schedule, paid leave, health insurance, and state and federal holidays. See Benefits and Perks at TCEQ.
TELEWORK
This position offers an opportunity for a hybrid work schedule with a minimum 2-day work in office.
YOUR FUTURE TEAM
As part of TCEQ’s Office of Water, you would contribute to ensuring clean and available water and protecting Texas’ water resources. See details about what we do.
This position is a member of our Water Quality Planning Division.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
As a part of the division’s Water Quality Planning team, our Hydrologist II will play a key role in achieving TCEQ’s mission. You would use your skills and experience to:
- Conduct watershed assessment and planning projects and related functions in support of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program for the Water Quality Planning Division of the TCEQ.
- Perform project management functions of the TMDL program, to include participating in the development of work plans and scopes of work; track project schedules and budgets; and review and approve project deliverables such as technical support documents, TMDLs, and quality assurance project plans, to ensure satisfactory completion of projects and contracts.
- Coordinate and review the acquisition, analysis and assessment of water quality, biologic, hydrologic, and watershed information and data for use in water resource management; and produce technical reports.
- Conduct public presentations, identify and interact with local stakeholders and the regulated community.
- Perform complex hydrologic modeling analysis and hydrologic reviews for assessment of surface water quality and load allocations associated with TMDL development and water resource management. Complete hydrologic data analysis and statistical procedures. Assess the feasibility and soundness of hydrologic and surface water quality models.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- A bachelor’s degree in hydrology, engineering, geology, mathematics, or natural or physical science from an accredited college or university, plus two years of full-time experience performing hydrologic work of similar character, scope, and complexity in the areas listed in examples of work performed.
OR
- A master’s degree in hydrology, engineering, geology, mathematics, or a natural or physical science from an accredited college or university, plus one year of the full-time experience.
OR
- A doctorate in hydrology, engineering, geology, mathematics, or a natural or physical science from an accredited college or university.
