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Salary- $54,108.00 – $70,956.00 Annually

What makes this role unique?

As the senior section specialist tasked with supporting environmental justice provisions in the Climate Commitment Act, you are integral to measuring our progress in reducing criteria pollutants and implementing new monitoring in the communities most affected by pollution. In this position, you will interact with others often, using advanced scientific knowledge of air monitoring operations and equipment to provide technical assistance, support, and training to local, state, and federal agencies, tribal nations, academia, contractors, and the public. Based in the Calibration and Repair Laboratory, the work includes solving advanced technical challenges as well as field support, providing the opportunity to enjoy Washington’s beautiful and diverse landscapes and weather as you travel between Lacey and supported monitoring sites around the state.

What you will do:

• Configure air sensors, FEM/FRM monitors, and other equipment for telemetry and monitoring needs.
• Coordinate the deployment of low-cost air pollution sensors and other FEM/FRM monitors with AQP, local air agency, and other agency/tribal air monitoring operators.
• Develop and recommend policies and guidelines for ambient air monitoring approaches within overburdened communities.
• Review and analyze collected overburdened community ambient air monitoring raw data, quality control information, and associated information for adherence to EPA and AQP quality system requirements to ensure data are accurate and defensible.
• Investigate and advise the Quality Assurance team regarding quality assurance protocols for low-cost sensors.
• Provide mentoring to Ecology and partner agency air monitoring operators on the deployment, operation, quality control, and maintenance of air sensors and FEM/FRM monitors in overburdened communities to ensure accurate air pollution measurement and reporting across the state.
• Develop and teach classes to professional-level air monitoring operators on the operation, calibration, maintenance, and quality control of air sensors, FEM and FRM particulate monitors, and other equipment to ensure operators are well trained and consistent in data collection across the state.
• Provide backup support for Calibration & Repair Lab and Southwest Regional Office (SWRO) air monitoring operations. Duties include calibration and repair of instruments as well as quality control checks and installation and retrieval of samples at air monitoring sites in the SWRO jurisdiction.

Required Qualifications:
Experience for both required and desired qualifications can be gained through various combinations of formal professional employment, educational, volunteer experience. See below for how you may qualify.

The goal class for this position is an Environmental Specialist 4  (ES4). We will consider applicants who meet the requirements for the Environmental Specialist 3 & 4 levels. If the finalist meets the requirements for the ES3 level, then they will be placed into a training program to become an ES4 within a specified period of time.

Environmental Specialist 3 (Salary Range 49:  $3887-$5102 Monthly)

A total of Six (6) years of experience and/or education as described below:

• Professional level Experience in: environmental analysis or control or environmental planning. Experience may include:
  • Investigating and / or resolving complaints involving science or technology content
  • Performing inspections
  • Drafting technical evaluations and reports
  • Develops plans for researching information used for technical projects, regulatory or policy development
  • Plan and facilitate public meetings and hearings
  • Project work requiring specialized knowledge of industry processes, pollutant sources or natural processes
  • Providing technical assistance for complex scientific content and/ or support for implementing scientific content programs
  • Conducting tests, analyzing and evaluating data
  • Using environmental databases to support technical projects
  • Developing scientific studies and resource management plans
  • Providing environmental technical and administrative assistance to grant/ contract/ loan recipients of environmental protection projects
  • Experience in operations and maintenance of air monitoring instrumentation or closely allied environmental sampling field

• Education: involving a major study in environmental, physical, or one of the natural sciences, environmental planning or other allied field.

See chart below for a list of ways to qualify for this position:

Environmental Specialist 4 (goal class) (Salary Range 55: $4509-$5913 Monthly)

A total of Nine (9) years of experience and/or education as described below:

• Professional level Experience in: environmental analysis or control or environmental planning. Experience may include:
• Investigating and / or resolving complaints involving science or technology content
• Performing inspections
• Drafting technical evaluations and reports
• Develops plans for researching information used for technical projects, regulatory or policy development
• Plan and facilitate public meetings and hearings
• Project work requiring specialized knowledge of industry processes, pollutant sources or natural processes
• Providing technical assistance for complex scientific content and/ or support for implementing scientific content programs
• Conducting tests, analyzing and evaluating data
• Using environmental databases to support technical projects
• Developing scientific studies and resource management plans
• Providing environmental technical and administrative assistance to grant/ contract/ loan recipients of environmental protection projects

Experience must Include: One (1) year of the professional level experience in the operations and maintenance of air monitoring instrumentation or closely allied environmental sampling field to qualify at the ES 4 level.

• Education: involving a major study in environmental, physical, or one of the natural sciences, environmental planning or other allied field.

See chart below for a list of ways to qualify for this position:

OR

Two years of experience as an Environmental Specialist 3 at the Department of Ecology.

Special Requirements/Conditions of Employment:

• Must have a Driver’s License.

Desired Qualifications:
We highly encourage you to apply even if you do not have some (or all) of the desired experience below.

• Experience testing, deploying, and analyzing data from low-cost air sensors and regulatory air monitors to characterize air quality.
• Experience calibrating, maintaining, and operating air monitoring or similar analytical equipment.
• Knowledge of electronics and pneumatics.
• Extensive knowledge of 40 CFR Parts 50and 58
• Previous experience interpreting and applying federal and state laws, regulations, rules, policy and guidance.
• Previous experience using R or other data analysis software.
• Ability to interpret and explain technical information to non-technical individuals.

Note: Having some (or all) of this desired experience may make your application more competitive in a highly competitive applicant pool.