Employment

Do you care about the environment and want to make a difference in the world? Do you like to work in an action-oriented, exciting, diverse, high-energy and challenging workplace? If you are a team player, highly productive, accountable with an eye for customer service, then the DNR is the right place for you.

Seasonal Park Patrol Officer
Posting Expires: Ongoing until positions filled
Seasonal Park Patrol Officers are temporary, summer employees of the Iowa DNR. Patrol Officers are positions of high responsibility helping to ensure a safe recreational environment for the public. Patrol Officer positions are available in state parks and Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) parks across Iowa.

Seasonal Park Patrol Officer Locations include (# refers to SPO positions):

• District 1: Black Hawk (1), Gull Point (2), Lewis and Clark (1), Stone (1)
• District 2: Clear Lake (1), George Wyth (1), McIntosh Woods (1), Yellow River Camping (2)
• District 3: Lake Anita (1), Lake Manawa (1), Lake of Three Fires (1), Prairie Rose (2), Springbrook (1), Waubonsie (1), Wilson Island (1)
• District 4: Big Creek (1), Honey Creek (1), Ledges (1), Rock Creek (1)
• District 5: Macbride (2), Lake Wapello (2), Pleasant Creek (2), Wapsipinicon (1)
• OHV Parks: Gypsum City (1), Bluff Creek (1), RiverView (1), LakeView (1)

Seasonal Park Patrol Officer Position Information
Park Contact Information Listings

Seasonal Park Employee
Posting Expires: Ongoing until positions filled
Iowa State Parks are seeking motivated individuals to help maintain the park for the 2023 recreation season. Iowa State Parks provide challenging environments to expand park management skills and prepare potential candidates for a career in state parks or similar fields. Duties include various aspects of park operations including facility and grounds maintenance, natural resource management, and visitor engagement. The role of the seasonal employee plays an integral part in enhancing visitors' experience.
Seasonal Park Employee Position Information

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking professional applicants for the position of SW Iowa Private Lands Biologist. This position will be responsible for providing technical assistance related to wildlife and wildlife habitats to NRCS staff and private landowners in 1 of the 4 NRCS Service Areas of Iowa. This position is located in the NRCS SW Area Office located in Atlantic and provides technical assistance over a 24 County area of Southwest Iowa.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: SW Iowa Private Lands Biologist (Natural Resources Biologist) - Conservation & Recreation, Wildlife, Private Lands Program

 

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking qualified applicants that are existing employees of the Department of Natural Resources for a newly created Health and Safety Officer position.

As an employee in this position, you would help achieve the Department’s mission by planning, implementing and overseeing employee health and safety policies and programs for the Environmental Services Division and the DNR Director's Office with the objective of minimizing accidents and injuries. This position will work closely with an existing Health and Safety Officer position that is currently overseeing safety efforts for the Conservation and Recreation Division to ensure that health and safety messaging, staff training and site audits are consistent throughout all parts of the Department.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: Health and Safety Coordinator (Program Planner 3) - Environmental Services, Division Management

 

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has an environmental specialist position available within the Solid Waste & Contaminated Sites Section, located in Des Moines, Iowa. In this position you will be involved in furthering the DNR’s mission to conserve and enhance our natural resources by providing environmental compliance oversight, direction, and assistance to landowners and responsible parties for the investigation and remediation of hazardous substances and contaminant releases.

After training, you will serve as a project manager for assigned sites under the regulatory authority of the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response and Compensation Liability Act (CERCLA) for both Superfund and Brownfield sites, and relevant state regulations for hazardous condition releases impacting Iowa’s soils and groundwater within Iowa Administrative Code Chapter 567-131, 133, 135, and 137. Duties may include administrative, technical or field activities to be conducted under these authorities. Project management includes evaluation of reports concerning environmental contamination for determination of the existence of significant risk to human health or the environment, directing regulated parties to conduct additional site investigation when needed; and, in some cases directing the mitigation of contamination posing excessive risk.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: Environmental Specialist - Environmental Services Division, Land Quality Bureau, Solid Waste and Contaminated Sites Section

 

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has an environmental compliance specialist position available within the Field Services and Compliance Bureau Field Office 4, located in Atlantic, Iowa. Within this position you will be involved in furthering the DNR’s mission to conserve and enhance our natural resources by providing environmental compliance assistance and enforcement throughout the southwest Iowa region.

After training, you will be tasked with conducting on-site inspections of regulated facilities, including animal feeding operations, public water supplies, wastewater treatment plants, air pollution sources and control equipment, storm water permitted facilities, solid waste disposal sites, and underground storage tank facilities. You will become adept in understanding state regulations, scientific principles, facilities, geography information systems, and environmental sampling and interpretation of scientific data. Additionally, you will be trained to address emergency response incidents and complaint situations as they arise. In turn, your role as an environmental compliance specialist will assist regulated facilities to achieve compliance with environmental regulations.

This position requires both verbal and written communication, including preparing reports of investigation, meetings with internal and external customers, e.g., regulated parties, federal, state, county, and local officials, environmental professionals, and your fellow team members.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: Environmental Compliance Specialist (Environmental Specialist) - Natural Resources, Environmental Services, Field Services & Compliance

 

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has an exciting opportunity for a wastewater engineer who demonstrates technical skills, customer focus and a detail-oriented team player to join the Wastewater Engineering team in the role of an Environmental Engineer and help protect water quality. This vacancy is in the Wastewater Engineering Section of the Environmental Services Division's Water Quality Bureau. As a wastewater engineer, you will have the distinct opportunity to be an integral part of the engineering team that protects the environment and public health by providing engineering/technical review of construction permit applications and management of wastewater treatment and collection system infrastructure projects including approval of engineering planning reports, antidegradation alternatives analyses, plans and specifications and approve construction permits for non-funded wastewater projects and some Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund (CWSRF) funded wastewater projects.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: Environmental Engineer - Wastewater - Environmental Services, Water Quality, Wastewater Engineering

 

Apply now for our Underground Storage Tank Specialist, which will assist the Underground Storage Tank (UST) Section by providing a critical service to the state of Iowa. This position is primarily responsible for providing oversight of assessment and cleanup at leaking underground storage tank sites as well as working to prevent leaks at operating underground storage tank systems by ensuring all facilities are in compliance with our regulations.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: Underground Storage Tank Specialist (ES) – Land Quality Bureau

 

The Department of Natural Resources encourages all applicants to upload a current resume and cover letter to their online application.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking an energetic and detail-oriented candidate to serve as the Program Management and Certification Coordinator for the Underground Storage Tank team. This position is primarily responsible for data management/analysis for the underground storage tank program as well as administering and maintaining the certification programs for underground and leaking underground storage tank related programs within the Department.

For specific job duties, requirements, and application information:
Position: Program Management and Certification Coordinator (PP2) – Land Quality Bureau

 

Current openings with the Iowa DNR can be found listed on this page below, but also through the State of Iowa employment portal.

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Mission:
To conserve and enhance our natural resources in cooperation with individuals and organizations to improve the quality of life in Iowa and ensure a legacy for future generations.

Vision:
Leading Iowans in caring for our natural resources.

Hiring Motto:
Hire the right person for the right job at the right time!

DNR recognizes and strives to capitalize on the fact that employees are our most valuable resource. DNR seeks to recruit, hire, train, develop and retain the very best employees.

Guiding Principles:
Customer Focus, Long-Term Thinking, Results/Outcome Orientation, Data-Based Decisions, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Empowerment, Valuing Employees, Mutual Respect, Collaboration, and Integrity

Core Competencies:
Accountability, Integrity, High Productivity, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Team Player, Customer Focus, and Technical Skills.

Application Preferences:
DNR highly encourages interested applicants to upload a resume and cover letter when applying for all DNR positions through the DAS NEOGOV application system.

The DNR is a diverse organization with 75 different job classifications.

The number following each job title represents the total number of full-time positions in that classification: