Director, Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands, DEP pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 09690
- Class code
- 09690
- Pay scale group
- ST 11
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- B3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Director, Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands, DEP is $102,788 to $156,167 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 09690.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 08/28/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional managerial work directing the Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands in the Department of Environmental Protection. The employee in this job directs professional and technical staff engaged in the development and design of waterways engineering and wetland projects. Work involves determining goals, objectives, and priorities for statewide flood protection, stream improvement, wetlands protection, and waterways engineering programs; developing and implementing regulations, policies, rules, procedures, standards, and guidelines to manage program activities; reviewing proposed legislation for program impacts; and determining and preparing budgetary requests. An important aspect of the work involves coordinating flood control, dam safety, waterways, and wetlands program activities with related federal, state, and local government agencies.
Examples of the work
• Directs the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of waterways engineering and wetland programs and related projects. • Ensures the incorporation of environmentally sound practices into all flood protection, stream improvement, dam safety, and water resource restoration projects. • Oversees the management of the Pennsylvania Chapter 105 Dam Safety and Waterway Management regulations and program. • Develops policies to ensure proper planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation, and monitoring of dams, reservoirs, and flood protection, stream improvement, and water resource restoration projects.
Minimum qualifications
• Nine years of professional experience coordinating environmental protection or water resources management programs, including four years of managerial experience; and a bachelor's degree in a biological or engineering field related to water resources; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes four years of professional managerial experience in coordinating environmental protection or water resources management programs.
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.