Air Pollution Specialist

This position can be located in Sacramento or Riverside County.

This position is a 12-month Limited Term (LT) and may be extended up to 24 months or become permanent.

If you have permanent status and have passed probation, you have mandatory reinstatement rights into your former position/classification at the end of this LT appointment. You will be separated from state service if you have not had prior permanent or probationary civil service status. During this 12-month limited-term assignment, you may be entitled to receive health, dental, and vision benefits. You will also earn State Service and accrue monthly leave credits.

The Innovative Strategies Branch (Branch) implements incentive projects that equitably transform the transportation, agriculture, and freight sectors, improve the well-being and quality of life for all Californians, and spur and support competitive markets. With open minds we use social, environmental, and economic justice as the guiding principles for our clean transportation policy. As such, the Innovative Heavy-Duty Strategies Section works within the Innovative Strategies Branch to support incentives funding for medium and heavy duty vehicles and offroad equipment, and ensure incentives recipients comply with labor laws per AB 794 mandates as well as compliance with other program rules. This section's work helps support emission reductions from the transportation sector.

The Section is seeking an Air Pollution Specialist to plan and oversee incentives to support advanced technology for medium and heavy-duty vehicles and other off-road equipment, including application of technology readiness and market readiness indicators.

Specifically, the incumbent will:

• Perform technical work related to implementation incentive projects, including understanding, and gaining expertise in applicable laws and regulations, and coordinating with other agencies to develop a process to coordinate and communicate;
• Monitor incentive recipient compliance with incentive programs and labor laws. 
• Support program development and reporting tools; 
• Prepare written agreements and guidance documents for the implementation of mobile source incentives, such as air district grants / implementation agreements in conjunction with the other state agencies, local air districts, and other affected stakeholders;
• Coordinate with other branches within MSCD and with divisions across the agency to ensure alignment on quantitative analyses;
• Conduct public workshops and workgroup meetings and coordinate with individual stakeholders and community representatives;
• Review and analyze current technical literature and technical data;
• Prepare annual funding plans and investment strategies to identify near-term and long-term priorities; 
• Prepare competitive solicitations, grant agreements, implementation manuals, and other guidance documents for the implementation of incentive strategies; 
• Evaluate and recommend potential changes to heavy-duty incentive projects;
• Quantify criteria emission and greenhouse gas emission reductions;
• Communicate observations, results, and recommendations verbally and in writing to management; and 
• Work in conjunction with other groups within the California Air Resources Board as well as outside agencies, including local air districts, ports, and other government agencies, non-profit agencies, equipment and vehicle manufacturers, environmental and community-based organizations, and other interested organizations. 

The incumbent will be joining a dynamic branch and will work in the Innovative Heavy-Duty Strategies Section.
 

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Working Conditions

This position may be eligible for hybrid in-office work and in-state telework. The amount of telework is at the agency's discretion and is based on the California Air Resource Boards' (CARB) current telework policy. While the CARB may support telework, some in-person attendance is also required.? 

Beginning July 1st, 2025, per Executive Order N-22-25, CARB employees will be required to report into office four days a week. 

The positions at the CARB may be eligible for telework with in-person attendance based on the operational needs of the position under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria outlined in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of hybrid telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location at their own expense, as indicated on their duty statement. 

• Requires being stationary, consistent with office work, for extended periods.
• Standard office environment (artificial lighting, controlled temperature, etc.)  
• Daily use of a personal computer, office equipment, and/or telephone.
• Position located in a high-rise building