TCEQ - Project Manager

Are you an experienced Project Manager, ready for a unique opportunity to grow with an environmental state agency? 
Join TCEQ! We bring passion and drive to carry out our mission of protecting our state’s public health and natural resources.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM
As part of TCEQ Administrative Services, you would help support the logistical and operational structure for TCEQ statewide -- the business foundation for the whole agency. See details about what we do.
This position is a member of our Information Resources Division.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Oversee and manage multiple projects using established project management methodologies, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing projects. Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, schedules, status reports, and meeting documentation. Ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Coordinate project activities across internal and external stakeholders, including agency IT staff, program areas, Budget and Planning, and state and federal partners. Facilitate communication, ensures alignment of project objectives, and provide regular status updates to management and stakeholders.
• Lead requirements gathering and business analysis efforts, including Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions. Work with program areas to analyze business needs and develop documentation such as business cases, use cases, process models, and Software Requirements Specifications.
• Identify, analyze, and manage project risks and issues, and develop mitigation strategies. Facilitate resolution of project barriers and ensure continuity of project progress through coordination with stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure project quality and support system design and testing activities, including reviewing Software Design Documents and coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT) to confirm deliverables meet business and technical requirements.
• Coordinate project closeout activities, including production validation, final documentation, lessons learned, and evaluation of project outcomes. Support continuous improvement of project management processes and practices.
   

KEY QUALIFICATIONS
•    Experience developing formal project management documentation, including project plans, schedules or timelines, status reports, structured task tracking or work breakdown structures, and budget or resource tracking documentation.
•    Experience leading structured stakeholder meetings or requirements-gathering sessions and documenting business needs, decisions, or outcomes resulting from those sessions.
•    Experience developing business and technical documentation to support project delivery, including business cases, software specification or use cases, and requirements documentation. 

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university plus three years of full-time experience managing, coordinating, overseeing, and/or in conducting project management in relevant areas of project assignment.  One year of additional experience may substitute for each year (30 semester hours) of the required education.
A graduate degree in public administration, business administration, environmental resource management, planning, or an area relevant to the position, from an accredited college or university may substitute up to two years of the required experience.
***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 Information Resources 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 (M.O.S.) CODES
M.O.S. 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.