Mid-Level NPDES Permit Writer

🕒 August 10

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $60k - $90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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ERG

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1993

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Healthcare • Logistics • Construction

ERG (Eastern Research Group Inc. ) is a company focused on supporting clients in protecting public health and the environment, improving worker health and safety, and ensuring the safety of food and drugs. They offer a wide range of services including air quality management, clean transportation solutions, environmental and climate justice, and facilities planning and engineering. Their clients include federal agencies and universities, with projects that cover environmental planning, workplace safety, and sustainable infrastructure. ERG is committed to promoting fairness, equity, and social justice through their work and organizational culture.

📋 Description

• Develop, review, and revise individual and general NPDES permits, fact sheets or statements of basis, public notices, response to comments documents, and supporting administrative records • Review permit applications, discharge monitoring reports, facility records, engineering information, prior permits, inspection findings, and other technical materials • Characterize industrial and municipal processes, wastewater sources, treatment systems, discharge locations, receiving waters, pollutants of concern, and operational conditions • Develop technology-based and water quality-based effluent limitations and calculate monitoring requirements • Address whole effluent toxicity, mixing zones, antidegradation, impaired waters, total maximum daily loads, and other water quality issues • Develop monitoring, reporting, recordkeeping, special condition, best management practice, compliance schedule, and pretreatment requirements • Review technical analyses and perform quality-control checks • Research and interpret the Clean Water Act, NPDES regulations, effluent guidelines, EPA guidance, state regulations, water quality standards, policies, and permitting precedents • Coordinate with permitting authorities, facility representatives, technical specialists, and interested parties • Support public participation activities and respond to public comments • Prepare technical memoranda, regulatory analyses, standard operating procedures, permit templates, guidance materials, and training materials • Track assignments, budgets, schedules, deliverables, and information needs across concurrent permits or projects • Participate in meetings with clients, regulatory agencies, permittees, and project teams • Provide technical guidance and review support to junior staff • Support NPDES program evaluations, permit quality reviews, backlog reduction, process improvements, and training • Contribute to proposals, scopes of work, cost estimates, and business-development activities

🎯 Requirements

• 3–10 years of experience supporting Clean Water Act-related environmental efforts • Experience with NPDES program implementation or other water-related environmental programs • Familiarity with NPDES permitting and wastewater and stormwater regulations • MS, BS, or BA in Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Engineering, or a related discipline • Outstanding written and oral communication skills • Strong data analytical skills • Proficiency in desktop research • Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team • Ability and willingness to travel locally and across the United States as necessary • Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel • Acquaintance with erosion and sediment control practices and stormwater pollution prevention best management practices • Knowledge of municipal and/or industrial wastewater treatment processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Opportunities for professional growth and development • Casual and collaborative work environment • Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities or disabled veterans