This project officer will help shape how rainwater is managed across the Guebwiller area, while coordinating efforts to reduce micropollutants entering wastewater systems. The work connects local planning and practical projects, from permeable streets and rain gardens to business pollution controls, across 19 municipalities.
The role links climate adaptation with everyday water management. Helping rain soak into the ground can support flood prevention, urban greening, and water-resource protection, while work with businesses can reduce pollution at its source and improve wastewater treatment. It brings environmental policy into decisions made by local authorities, residents, and economic actors.
This suits someone with water, sanitation, or environmental training who enjoys coordinating projects and explaining technical issues to varied audiences. Early-career applicants are welcome, especially those ready to work across public services, municipalities, businesses, and water-sector partners.
Job FAQs
What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The role coordinates the territory's integrated rainwater strategy, including follow-up on studies and the implementation of rainwater zoning. It works across urban planning, buildings, roads, and green spaces to incorporate infiltration, rainwater reuse, depaving, and nature-based solutions.
A second major strand is organizing a collective program to reduce micropollutants at source among local businesses. This includes identifying priority sectors, assessing practices, supporting compliance, preparing discharge permits and agreements, and reporting progress. The post also involves funding applications and coordination with the Rhine-Meuse Water Agency.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The position could build practical knowledge of integrated rainwater management, urban water planning, sanitation networks, and non-domestic wastewater discharge controls. It offers exposure to how climate adaptation and pollution prevention are put into practice across a multi-commune territory.
Working with elected officials, municipal services, businesses, consultants, and water-sector partners may develop project coordination, public-sector procedures, facilitation, and environmental communication skills. The role also provides experience with public procurement, grant applications, and monitoring outcomes; no specific certification or formal training program is stated.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
The posting seeks education at Bac+2 to Bac+5 in water, sanitation, or the environment, with beginners accepted. Knowledge of rainwater management, sanitation systems, environmental regulation, climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, and pollution impacts would be relevant. Experience in a local authority, consultancy, or water organization is an advantage.
The work also calls for project planning and monitoring, clear writing, and confidence with office software. A strong fit would be methodical and independent, while able to explain technical topics, bring different parties together, and report concise progress to colleagues and decision-makers.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Make the application concrete: describe a water, sanitation, pollution-prevention, or environmental project you studied or delivered, and clarify your own contribution, partners, and results. If your experience is academic or from an internship, connect it directly to rainwater zoning, infiltration, depaving, or source control of micropollutants.
Show how you would communicate with both elected officials and businesses, and mention any familiarity with public procurement, local authority processes, or water-agency funding. The posting accepts beginners, so demonstrate sound technical foundations, organized project habits, and examples of making complex environmental issues understandable.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role is likely to focus on climate adaptation and water protection through two linked strands. Integrated rainwater management could reduce runoff and flood pressure, support infiltration, and make urban spaces more permeable and greener. Rainwater harvesting, depaving, and rain gardens are among the approaches named in the posting.
The micropollutant program addresses pollution before it reaches wastewater systems, with business practices and compliance at its center. Together, these activities connect local planning, water quality, and sanitation performance across the authority's 19 communes.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
A key challenge could be translating a territory-wide rainwater strategy into consistent decisions across planning, buildings, roads, and green spaces, each involving different teams and project owners. The officer will also need to build support among elected officials and residents while turning technical advice into feasible local projects.
The business pollution program may require balancing regulatory follow-up with practical support for companies making changes. Coordinating external studies, tracking compliance, preparing funding requests, and demonstrating progress across two complex workstreams could also demand careful prioritization.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
A day could combine reviewing rainwater studies or project documents with meetings involving sanitation colleagues, municipal services, elected officials, or urban project owners. The officer might advise on infiltration or depaving measures and prepare materials to explain the approach to local partners.
Other periods may focus on the micropollutant operation: coordinating with business organizations, reviewing practice assessments, following up on compliance, or drafting discharge agreements. Administrative work, progress reporting, and grant applications to the Rhine-Meuse Water Agency would also form part of the routine.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
The role could provide a broad foundation in local water policy by combining rainwater planning, urban adaptation, sanitation, and industrial pollution prevention. Over time, the officer may deepen expertise in nature-based drainage, non-domestic wastewater regulation, project evaluation, and environmental funding.
Experience coordinating elected officials, municipalities, businesses, and technical partners could support future roles in water or environmental project management, local government policy, or consultancy. The posting does not specify a promotion path or formal training scheme.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
The officer will work closely with the Environment service manager and the Sanitation service, as well as elected officials and the 19 member communes. Urban planning, building, roads, and green-space teams are relevant partners for integrating rainwater measures into public policy and projects.
Residents, social landlords, businesses, project owners, and business organizations such as the CCI and CMA are also part of the work. The Rhine-Meuse Water Agency is a key external contact for the two missions and related funding, alongside consultants or service providers involved in studies.
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