Job Information
Department of Ecology Senior Engineer (Environmental Engineer 5) in Spokane, Washington
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Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen
The Department of Ecology is hiring a* Senior Engineer* (Environmental Engineer 5)* within the Solid Waste Management*{rel="nofollow"} (SWM) program.
Location:
This position will be based out of the following duty stations:
- Central Region Office in Union Gap, WA{target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}.
Eastern Region Office in Spokane, WA{target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}.
Schedule:
- This position is eligible for telework and flexible schedule options.
- A minimum of one day per week is required in the office. This role will also in include field work as needed.
Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change.
*Application Timeline: *
- Apply by April 5, 2026
This position will remain open until filled. The agency reserves the right to make a hire at any time after application review begins. Applications received after the date above may not be considered.
Duties
In this role, you will manage the landfill disposal of 70% of the state's municipal solid waste and work across all of Eastern Washington on different solid waste handling facilities to ensure their compliant and safe operation. This includes compost facilities, working with landfills with underground fire issues, and potentially being a site manager to manage the cleanup of contaminated properties under the Model Toxics Cleanup Act (MTCA) to prevent, contain, and cleanup environmental pollution. Lastly you will help to ensure that financial assurance accounts for solid waste facilities are adequately funded, so that funding is available for facility post-closure care.
What you will do:
Provide the final quality assurance review on technical and engineering documents to maintain high technical standards. Assure all work produced by the section is consistent with existing legislation, regulations, and agency policy.
Review engineering documents for compliance with laws, regulations, and standard engineering practices associated with solid waste handling and biosolids facilities. These include but are not limited to landfills, transfer stations, surface impoundments, tanks, and waste tire storage facilities.
Serve as the Solid Waste Management (SWM) statewide lead engineer with expertise in lagoons, surface impoundments, emissions from organic wastes, and innovative emerging recycling process technologies.
Conduct construction site visits to ensure construction quality assurance, operations and engineering plans are followed where needed for large or significant projects (e.g. new solid waste facilities) and assist other jurisdictions in conducting inspections.
Serves as the SWM statewide lead engineer with expertise on internal/external technical workgroups as they occur to assess organic waste emissions.
Serve as a cleanup site manager for contaminated properties under