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Supervisory Environmental Engineer (Deputy Director)
Architect of the Capitol · Posted 3 days ago
Hybrid Washington, DC $144K – $187K Apply by Jul 24, 2026 Environmental Engineering ISTJ EngineeringOperations
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The Architect of the Capitol is seeking a highly qualified and experienced Supervisory Environmental Engineer to serve within the Office of Safety and Code Compliance, Environmental Division. The incumbent serves as the Deputy Director and as a senior technical and supervisory authority responsible for leading environmental compliance, environmental engineering, pollution prevention, permitting and environmental management programs affecting facilities and operations across the Capitol Complex.
What You'll Do
- →**This position is essential.
- →The employee is required to report to work during emergencies and inclement weather situations.
- →Major Duties: Supervisory and Leadership Responsibilities Provides input to the Director and office leadership regarding vision, operational planning, and budget in pursuing environmental program improvements.
- →Provides administrative and technical supervision to professional and technical environmental staff within the Environmental Division.
- →Plans, assigns, and evaluates work to ensure timely completion of projects and program objectives.
- →Develops performance standards and conducts employee performance evaluations to support professional development, and organizational effectiveness.
- →Identifies training needs and promotes employee development through mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance.
- →Supports Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) principles and fosters an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
- →Coordinates workload priorities, resource allocation, and operational objectives to support agency mission requirements.
- →Environmental Program Management Leads and oversees agency-wide environmental compliance and environmental protection programs.
- →Interprets and implements Federal, state, and local environmental regulations and standards.
- →Develops environmental policies, procedures, guidance documents, and best management practices.
- →Provides expert technical guidance on environmental engineering, permitting, compliance assurance, hazardous materials, spill prevention and response oversight, and leads the development of pollution prevention programs.
- →Represents the agency in interactions with regulatory agencies, stakeholders, customer representatives, and external partners regarding environmental compliance matters.
Requirements
- ✓In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements for this position, applicants must possess the following: Education Required for Engineers: A.
- ✓Combination of education and experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished: (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
- ✓The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
- ✓Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
- ✓For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- ✓Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
- ✓Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.
- ✓The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
- ✓Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Education completed outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in conventional/accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for Federal employment.
- ✓Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities.
- ✓Applicants educated in whole or in part of foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree.
- ✓You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing if selected.
Benefits
- ★A variety of health insurance plans; retirement system with investment options; paid holidays; paid sick and annual (vacation) leave; life insurance; incentive systems; subsidized transportation; training and development opportunities, etc.
- ★Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual rate credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience.
- ★The amount of service credit will be based on specialized experience or qualifying experience that is provided on the applicant profile submitted.
- ★As such, if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire, it is important that you provide a work history that lists all directly related positions held, and it must include the dates of employment (month/day/year).
- ★The Architect of the Capitol offers eligible employees opportunity to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program.
Personality Fit
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