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TCEQ - Director IV (TCEQ Employees Only)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/27/2026
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 Supply Division.

Here’s What You’ll Be Doing

  • Oversee division activities, provide guidance on procedural methods, and consult on division strategic planning activities. Oversee division programs to ensure accurate and timely processing of division tasks, program performance standards, and standard operating procedures. Oversee and manage division projects as assigned.
  • Communicate regulatory and technical information related to drinking water programs and other technical issues to staff, federal and state officials, internal and external stakeholders, public, and regulated community.
  • Provide leadership and management oversight of staff. Participate in or conduct the interview and selection of new employees, develop performance plans, assign, assess staff performance, and supervise work of employees. Participate in staff development activities and performance management activities for the division, as well as develop and administer future advancement for staff.
  • Monitor and emphasize the division’s customer service to internal and external customers; define and evaluate quality standards to improve organizational performance. Assist in the coordination of activities in response to emergency events or other types of assistance related to public water system operations.
  • Evaluate the implications of new developments and proposed legislation and their effect upon division operations; provide testimony regarding introduced legislation and new state and federal proposed rulemaking and assess their effect upon the division.
  • Assist with managing division budgets, expenditures, grants, and contracts.

Qualifications

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with personnel or project management, which includes senior level planning, and/or training and directing the work of staff/supervising others.
  • Experience working with the regulatory requirements, technical aspects, compliance and enforcement of public water systems.
  • Experience with emergency management (disaster response, emergency conditions, etc.).

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 Water Supply Division.

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.

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