TCEQ - Director IV

Job Description:

TCEQ - Director IV

Description

Job Description

Are you an experienced Director ready for a unique opportunity to grow with an environmental state agency?

Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our state's public health and natural resources.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

As part of TCEQ's Office of Waste, you would contribute to agency efforts to regulate the generation, treatment, storage, and disposal of various wastes and the cleanup of contaminated sites. See details about what we do.

This position is a member of our Remediation Division in Office of Waste.

As part of TCEQ Office of Waste, you would help ensure that those we regulate comply with the state's environmental laws. See details about what we do.

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Assist in the oversight of day-to-day activities within the Remediation Division, including highly advanced division policy, personnel matters, budgetary issues. Coordinate division responses to requests from the Office of Waste, Commissioners, and the Executive Director.
• Supervise staff providing highly advanced technical support for the division, to include hiring, managing, and appraising the performance of staff; and assuring staff development and training. Assist with overseeing division policy, personnel matters, budgetary issues.
• Lead and coordinates special projects.
• Prepare highly technical documents and reports regarding division matters, and presents the information to agency management, the legislature, and other parties.
• Assist in agency/division planning, policy development, and legislative analysis and implementation. Coordinates the evaluation of federal rules/policies and their impact on division programs.
• Represent the Division in internal and external meetings, seminars, and workshops.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in a field relevant to assignment.

OR

Experience in the management of a business function, division, or department to include professional management experience where primary duties consists of planning organizing, controlling, and directing the work of an organization or formal subdivision, or team.

OR

Experience as a special assistant to a TCEQ director or deputy director developing management policies and directing/evaluating operations.

Employees in this classification series may research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure, including but not limited to a communication infrastructure system, cybersecurity system, electric grid, hazardous waste treatment system, or water treatment facility. See Tex. Business & Commerce Code Section 117.001(2). Accordingly, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a requirement to be hired for and to continue to be employed with TCEQ.

TRANSCRIPT/ COLLEGE HOURS or COURSE WORK:

See instructions on how to attach documents. A copy of your official college transcript or evaluation of foreign credentials in CAPPS is required if needed to meet the qualifications listed above.

Work Schedule

Standard business hours are M-F, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Individual and work group schedule determined by the TCEQ Houston Region Office.

BENEFITS

Optional 401(k) and 457 plans
Insurance: Health, Vision, Dental, and optional FSA
Paid day(s) off from work on national holidays and holidays that the state observes
Professional development opportunities
Longevity pay based on your number of years working for the state
Wellness Program and Activities
Onsite Nurse Practitioner in HQ
Work-Life Balance

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT

TCEQ will conduct a criminal history records search, driving history (if required for the job) on candidates offered employment.
In compliance with ADA, if you need any special accommodations during the employment process, please contact HRSS for assistance at (512) 239-0102.

MILITARY OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY (MOS) CODES

Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes can be found at: https://hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions . Please click the hyperlink under `Occupational Category' for the respective Class Title.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Closing Date/Time: 2026-07-15

Salary:

$10308.00 - 10308.00 Monthly