Senior Water Quality Program Specialist

Date Opened: Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00 AM

Close Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $75,471.00 - $94,339.00 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

Charlotte’s local government, with more than 9,000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion budget, works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone – a truly remarkable place to live, work, learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330,000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Mint Hill, Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Water’s FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.2.28 billion. We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moody’s and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent, skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

Salary:

The salary for this position is $84,905.10 - $94,338.99 commensuration with experience.

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for providing regulatory support to six wastewater treatment plants with a permitted capacity of 124.2 MGD.  This position supports the monitoring of regulatory requirements set forth in the Federal Clean Water Act and NC water quality regulations as they relate to wastewater treatment, storm water discharges, biosolids, and reclaimed water usage.  Work includes the technical analysis of treatment plant data, development of compliance related documents,  reporting of compliance related data, and involvement/planning of compliance strategies; supports various environmental permit programs; collaborates with consultants, contractors, and regulators for evaluating existing facilities and meeting permit requirements; and periodically includes the collection of wastewater samples, training of plant operations staff, and field work related to investigating illicit discharges and treatment plant upsets. This position also prepares reports resulting from these interactions; provides direct support to management staff through review of regulations and analysis of impacts; addresses customer concerns; and supports EMD’s Environmental Management System to promote continuous improvement.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:        

• Serves as the backup to the Water Quality Program Administrator and maintains program continuity in the Administrators absence.
• Supervises the Water Quality Program Intern.
• Supports regulatory requirements set forth in the Federal Clean Water Act and NC water quality regulations as they relate to NPDES and Non-Discharge Permitting.  Assists with the development of sampling plans, training of operations staff, development of internal policies, and all aspects of NPDES and Non-discharge permitting and compliance.
• Collaborates with appropriate local, state, and federal agencies on special projects, facility inspections, and permitting initiatives at the directive of, or in the absence of, the Water Quality Program Administrator.    
• Provides quality control and review of regulatory data and reports; reviews existing and proposed regulations at the local, state, and federal level and determines the potential impacts to the department and provides recommendations to the Water Quality Program Administrator.
• Assists with the review and troubleshooting of process control issues that have regulatory implications; provides guidance and recommendations to the Water Quality Program Administrator.
• Coordinates laboratory work and special sampling projects with Laboratory Services