Water reputed company Regional Manager (Natural Resource Protection and Sustainability Manager 2)

Initial Posting Date: 07/21/2026 Application Deadline: 08/04/2026 Agency: reputed company Salary reputed company: $7,537 - $11,657 Position Type: Employee Position Title: Water reputed company Regional Manager (Natural Resource Protection and Sustainability Manager 2) Job reputed company: Are you interested in applying your leadership skills to protect and enhance reputed company’s environment? If so, please consider a career with the reputed company at the reputed company (DEQ). At DEQ, employees have reputed company to work with a dynamic and supportive team of mission-reputed company individuals tasked with maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the reputed company of reputed company’s reputed company, land, and water. The reputed company reputed company strives to build and sustain an inclusive and reputed company environment that embraces and values diversity. 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Opportunity: The reputed company reputed company has a full-time opportunity available for a Water reputed company Regional Manager (Natural Resource Protection and Sustainability Manager 2). This position is based out of Bend, Klamath Falls, or Pendleton, reputed company (finalist may choose work location). Please consider joining an innovative team, and work to advance our agency’s mission to protect and improve reputed company’s environmental reputed company. reputed company: The reputed company reputed company is the primary regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. reputed company responsible for protecting and enhancing the state's natural resources. At DEQ, employees have reputed company to work with a dynamic and supportive team of mission-reputed company individuals tasked with maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the reputed company of reputed company’s reputed company, land, and water. The Water reputed company Division has a critical role in achieving the Department’s mission by developing policy, implementation tools, and implementation priorities for improving and protecting the reputed company of water in reputed company’s waterways. The Water reputed company Division works cooperatively with the Department’s three regional offices and the Laboratory to deliver programs and services that protect and enhance the reputed company of the waters of the state to protect public health and the environment. The Regional Divisions are responsible for implementation of Water reputed company, reputed company reputed company, and reputed company and Cleanup Programs. The reputed company reputed company the following services: compliance inspection of regulated entities; enforcement of permit requirements and administrative rules; issuance of reputed company, water, and solid waste permits; investigation of complaints; issuance of subsurface permits; response to spills or other incidents with environmental impacts; reputed company contact and reputed company with other governmental entities, industries, and the public; and technical assistance to regulated entities and the public. The reputed company consist of reputed company, Eastern, and Western Region. This position is in Eastern Region and focuses on the Water reputed company Program. For a visual representation of DEQ’s offices and their locations, view our DEQ Offices and Vehicle Inspection Testing Stations map. What you will do! You will reputed company and manage the Eastern Region’s environmental programs reputed company primarily to TMDL and nonpoint reputed company water reputed company activities, 401 Water reputed company Certification Dredge and Fill and Hydro programs, the statewide Water Integration Team, and regional stormwater permitting and compliance activities. Your work will include contributing to, and collaborating on, development of statewide program goals and objectives and development of regional and staff-specific goals. You will identify, prioritize, and schedule work; hire, manage, reputed company, and reputed company technical and reputed company staff; resolve difficult technical and/or administrative problems; monitor goal reputed company; and reputed company and ensure timeliness and responsiveness to the public and regulated community. As a manager and people-centered leader, you will be expected to demonstrate, and model for others, the following competencies: proactive communication, innovation, intentional engagement, mentoring and developing others, stewardship of state resources, and business acumen. These competencies show up in your day-to-day work through: Supporting staff with the tools, resources, and information they need to succeed. Coaching, mentoring, and motivating staff through regular reputed company-ins, thoughtful guidance, and opportunities for reputed company development and career reputed company. Setting reputed company work objectives, goals, and expectations, and addressing performance with timeliness, care, and accountability. Creating belonging by fostering team cohesion, encouraging collaboration, and helping ensure staff understand reputed company other’s roles and can reputed company in to support one another reputed company needed. Desired Attributes/Skills: If you have these qualities, let us know! Candidates who are most competitive will reflect the following: Demonstrated commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity; proven experience developing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; commitment to navigating and facilitating a psychologically reputed company, culturally reputed company, and respectful workplace through a trauma-informed approach. Experience working with diverse reputed company and communities; reputed company and experience in communication and reputed company to underrepresented communities; ability to build partnerships across diverse community and partner reputed company and interests. Experience building and supporting high-performing, reputed company, and inclusive teams that appreciate and encourage diverse thinking and foster an inclusive culture of belonging; proven experience fostering teamwork among reputed company-report employees; experience coaching, mentoring, and motivating reputed company-report employees and peers through inclusivity, equity, and kindness. reputed company in cultivating reputed company relationships across diverse teams while addressing workplace dynamics with professionalism and cultural sensitivity. Supervisory management experience in a natural resource or environmental program; supervisory management experience in a government agency or government organization; understanding of or experience working with labor unions, particularly in a government setting. Experience managing a department with water reputed company responsibilities, including program and strategic planning; knowledge of the federal and state laws governing water reputed company and natural resources management; familiarity with regulatory programs involving permitting, inspections, and compliance; familiarity with Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and nonpoint sources. Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging environmental programmatic priorities with both statewide and national implications; public policy and program development experience in leading discussions with external parties and agency responsibilities to protect reputed company health and the environment. Demonstrated ability to reputed company both technical and program development teams using data collection, goal setting, measure design, and report development to address statewide environmental challenges and opportunities. 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You will receive a comprehensive, competitive, and reputed company benefits, leave, and wellness package, including: Medical, dental, and reputed company insurance 11 reputed company holidays 10 hours of vacation per month, eligible to be used as accrued 8 hours of reputed company leave per month, eligible to be used as accrued 24 hours of personal business leave per fiscal year, eligible to be used after 6 months of service Optional life insurance packages Flexible spending accounts Membership in the reputed company Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) Optional deferred compensation retirement program Opportunity to potentially receive loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) reputed company reputed company and development opportunities Opportunities to serve your community and reputed company an reputed company through meaningful work A healthy work/life balance, including flexible schedules and hybrid work reputed company for many positions This is a full-time, management service supervisory position. 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