This position may be located at one of the following CalRecycle locations: Sacramento, Cerritos, or Riverside, California.
Are you looking for a career where you save the environment and improve the health of the citizens of California? Do you have experience in evaluating and verifying compliance with environmental laws? Are you motivated about the opportunity to oversee and accomplish compliance at the local level to achieve statewide environmental goals?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this may be the job for you!
CalRecycle is looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking leader to help implement and enforce our statewide regulations and minimum standards, like Senate Bill 1383, Assembly Bill 2902 and Assembly Bill 2346. Senate Bill 1383 is focused on reducing organics in landfills and providing millions of meals to Californians without enough to eat.
The Jurisdiction and Agency Compliance and Enforcement Branch (JACE) seeks to manage and mitigate the impacts of solid waste on public health and safety and the environment by enforcing compliance with regulations and state minimum standards, through integrated and consistent permitting, inspection, and enforcement efforts.
Under the general supervision of the Environmental Program Manager II, the incumbent will perform the most difficult, complex, and sensitive scientific and technical duties related to CalRecycle’s climate change initiatives. The incumbent will act as CalRecycle's specialist for overseeing compliance with local jurisdictions. The incumbent's expertise will be used to coordinate complex projects, participate in strategic planning, analyzing policies, preparing and delivering presentation, and monitoring and coordinating program implementation. The incumbent will also be on a team that helps develop, test, and oversee CalRecycle's new integrated information system.
This position involves travel throughout the state up to 25% of the time. Travel may involve multiple, consecutive days away from the office and overnight stays.
This position may be eligible for hybrid telework under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria set forth in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location, as indicated on their duty statement, at their own expense.
Beginning July 1st, 2026, it is anticipated the position will be office-centered and employees will be expected to report to the office at least four days per week.
For more information, please see attached the duty statement.
