Job Description

About this Job
Office of Permitting & Compliance - Engineering
The Office of Permitting and Compliance (OPC) oversees all permitting and regulatory functions within the Department, ensuring clarity, consistency, and regulatory integrity. By streamlining processes, accelerating permitting timelines and enhancing data-driven decision-making, the Office ensures compliance with environmental standards while supporting responsible economic development.
OPC centralizes all permitting and compliance functions, aligning engineering, geology, ecology, design, and compliance divisions into a single workflow. Its structure includes integrity and production audits, UIC and storage regulation, groundwater protection, coastal permits and mitigation, and reservoir and legacy site management.
This Petroleum Scientist Manager 2 position serves as the principal assistant to the Director of Engineering in administrative and managerial functions; assumes duties of the Division Director in their absence. Administrative direction is exercised over all full-time and part-time classified and contractual personnel assigned to the Underground Injection Control (UIC) and Exploration and Production (E&P) Waste Management programs within the Division.
Minimum Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in a geoscience field or engineering plus five years of experience in the evaluation of oil and gas drilling, oil and gas production and/or oil and gas transportation, mining engineering or geology; OR
A master's degree in a geoscience field or engineering plus four years of the required specialized experience; OR
A doctorate in a geoscience field or engineering plus three years of the required specialized experience.
Job Specification
The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found
Job Duties and Other Information
Job Duties:
This Petroleum Scientist Manager 2 position is located within the Engineering Division of the Office of Permitting & Compliance and is domiciled in Baton Rouge, LA. This position reports to the Petroleum Scientist Administrator (Division Director). Work is performed in accordance with State and Federal regulations, Divisional guidelines, and Departmental rules.
Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serves as the principal assistant to the Engineering Division Director for their assigned program area, representing the Division Director in their absence, and providing coverage for the other Petroleum Scientist Manager 2 when needed.
• Oversees the planning, managing and coordinating the technical, administrative and regulatory activities for the division, such as budgeting, purchasing, personnel, and records management.
• Oversees two (2) Division sections: Class I Injection Wells and Class II Injection Wells/E&P Waste Management
• Programmatic oversight of the permitting program, ensuring permits are reviewed to regulatory standards and in a timely fashion.
• Assists with the creation and implementation of new programs (e.g. geothermal, lithium, etc.)
• Ensures compliance issues are appropriately managed and referred to the Office of Enforcement when needed.
• Assists in the preparation of annual budgets and revenue projections.
• Manages the oversight of Division federal grants, including the annual UIC programmatic grant and one-time EPA multipurpose use and exchange network grants.
• Supervises, directs, plans and coordinates the technical, administrative and regulatory activities of the designated Division sections within Engineering.
• Recruits, interviews, and recommends approval for hiring personnel and evaluates the performance of personnel.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

POSITION-SPECIFIC DETAILS:
Appointment Type: Promotional. This position will be filled by way of an internal promotion with a current Department of Conservation & Energy employee.
Career Progression: This position does not participate in a Career Progression Group.
Work Schedule: Work hours are flexible.
Compensation: The salary offered will be determined based on qualifications and experience.
Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.
How to Apply:
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

• Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

For further information about this vacancy, contact:
Human Resources
Department of Conservation & Energy
PO Box 94396
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9396
Email:
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity to make a difference through public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.
As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:
Insurance Coverage More information can be found at
Parental Leave - Up to six weeks paid parental leave
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Holidays and Leave - State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
• Mardi Gras,
• Good Friday,
• Memorial Day,
• Independence Day,
• Labor Day,
• Veteran's Day,
• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor
State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.
Retirement - State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (

). LASERS has provided this to give you more detailed information about their system * Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (
), * Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (
), among others

Skills Required