Engineer II

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Wake County, NCtime type:
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March 16, 2026 (13 days left to apply) job requisition :
JR-110292
** Agency
* * Dept of Environmental Quality
** Division
* * Water Resources
** Job Classification Title
** Engineer II (NS)
** Position Number
**** Grade
* * NC18

The primary mission of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is to provide science-based environmental stewardship for the health and prosperity of all North Carolinians. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the lead stewardship agency for the protection of North Carolina's environmental resources. The organization, which has offices from the mountains to the coast, administers regulatory programs designed to protect air quality, water quality, and the public's health, and works to advance in all-of-the-above energy strategy that fits North Carolina's needs.

DEQ also offers technical assistance to businesses, farmers, local governments, and the public and encourages responsible behavior with respect to the environment through education programs provided at DEQ facilities and through the state's school system. DEQ touches the lives of all North Carolinians in many ways to enhance and ensure our quality of life.
** Description of Work
** This Engineer II position within the Technical Services Branch - Plan Review Unit of the Division of Water Resources Public Water Supply (PWS) Section is a primarily office-based position. Plan Review staff occasionally attend sanitary surveys and other site visits with Regional Office staff or meet with water systems or their engineers/contractors on-site regarding plan submittals. Professional Engineer licensure/Engineer Intern certification is not required but is considered an asset.
Position requires the ability to successfully manage multiple projects within time constraints; manage work time independently yet meet schedules and deadlines; comprehend and interpret engineering and regulatory documentation; and maintain detailed and organized documents, files and records.

Key Responsibilities:

-- Review engineering designs, reports, plans and specifications, calculations, and other supporting information submitted for approval and authorization to construct public water system supply, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities    -- Evaluate documentation for compliance with federal/state statutes, rules, and regulations    -- Review Water System Management Plans to ensure that federally mandated capacity development requirements are met    -- Prepare approval documents    -- Provide effective and timely technical assistance based on a thorough knowledge of drinking water rules and regulations and engineering principles and practices    -- Serve as a program technical advisor for other PWS Section staff
** Knowledge

Skills and Abilities

/Management Preferences
**** Recruitment Range: $63,927 - $88,855**#
*** Important:
This posting closes at 11:59:59 PM the night BEFORE the End Date above.
***** Supplemental Information
**** The Division of Water Resources:
** The Division of Water Resources (DWR) is responsible for protecting North Carolina’s drinking, surface, and ground water for all water bodies including lakes, streams, rivers, wetlands, and aquifers. This environmental stewardship is accomplished through actions including permitting issuance, investigations, regulatory compliance, and enforcement, monitoring and field assessments, certifications, laboratory analysis and testing, planning, water quality standards management, educational outreach, and other efforts.

The Division comprises six sections:
Water Quality Regional Operations, Water Sciences, Public Water Supply, Water Quality Permitting, Water Quality NPDES Permitting, and Water Planning.
to learn more about the .DWR's  promotes public health by ensuring that safe, potable water is available in adequate quantities to the residents and visitors of North Carolina served by PWS systems by assuring that such systems are properly located, constructed, operated, and maintained. PWS systems provide piped drinking water to at least 15 connections or 25 or more people 60 or more days per year.

The section has branches and programs for: implementation of the mandates of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act; review and approval of plans and specifications for new and expanding or improving PWS systems; inspections, investigations, and technical assistance; emergency responses and complaint investigations; source water assessment, protection, and wellhead protection; capacity development; and administration of an operating fee permit program.

If you have student loans, becoming a state employee includes eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Visit  to learn more. This position currently qualifies for a hybrid telework option with routine office and remote workdays. The NC Department of…