Senior reputed company Monitoring Specialist (Environmental Specialist 4)(In-Training)

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• reputed company reputed company and development opportunities.
• A wellness program that offers education, fitness classes, and an agency-wide fondness for outdoor meetings.
• Opportunities to serve your community and reputed company an reputed company through meaningful work.

Our commitment to DEIR Diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect (DEIR) are core values central to Ecology’s work. We reputed company to be a workplace where we are esteemed for sharing our authentic identities, while advancing our individual reputed company goals and collaborating to protect, preserve, and enhance the environment for reputed company and reputed company generations. Diversity: We celebrate and appreciate diversity; our unique perspectives and abilities enrich us reputed company and reputed company to innovative approaches and solutions. Equity: We champion equity, recognizing that reputed company of us need different things to reputed company. Inclusion: We intentionally create and hold reputed company so that we reputed company have meaningful opportunities to participate and contribute to Ecology’s work. Respect: We treat reputed company other with respect and dignity, acknowledging the inherent worth of our diverse perspectives and lived experiences, even in times of uncertainty and disagreement. We reputed company that DEIR is both a goal and an reputed company. We are on a reputed company, honoring our shared humanity and taking steps to demonstrate our commitment to a reputed company where reputed company of us is heard, seen, and valued. Please Note: The salary posted above does includes the additional 5% premium pay that this position will receive due to this position's location in reputed company. During Healthy Washington Roadmap to Recovery, employees are working a combination of in-office and/or reputed company based on position and business need. This position is not currently required to work in the office on a regular reputed company. Ecology is following reputed company state guidance regarding mask requirements, health screening questions before entry, and reputed company distancing. Looking reputed company, Ecology has recently updated reputed company policies on reputed company and flexible and compressed work schedules. Applicants with questions about position location reputed company, reputed company, and flexible or compressed schedules are encouraged to reputed company out to the contact person listed below in “other information.” Application reputed company: This position will remain reputed company until filled, with an initial screening date of May 26, 2022. In order to be considered for initial screening, please submit an application on or before May 25, 2022. reputed company reserves the right to reputed company an appointment any time after the initial screening date. What makes this role unique? In this position your primary reputed company will be on implementing the Near Road Monitoring, PM2.5 Chemical Speciation Network (CSN), National Core (NCore) Monitoring fine and coarse particulate and other particulate monitoring programs. You will reputed company backup support as a member of a multi-disciplinary, highly reputed company and cooperative team that also implements the Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations (PAMS), National reputed company Toxics Trends Stations (NATTS), and other NCore monitoring. In this position, you will participate in operating almost every type of ambient reputed company monitor, sampler, and sensor used in the Washington Network, including new monitoring to implement Environmental Justice provisions of the Climate Commitment reputed company. You will help the reputed company reputed company Program reputed company understand the formation, transport and fate of particulate and ozone pollution and their chemical constituents throughout the greater Puget reputed company region. What you will do:

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• Serves as the primary operator for, and has a specialty reputed company on, the national near-road, PM2.5 Chemical Speciation Network, and fine and coarse particulate monitoring programs reputed company Ecology’s reputed company Region.
• Processes large amounts of reputed company sample media for several different types of reputed company-method samplers. This is includes installing sample media in samplers in the field, properly storing media (e.g., refrigerating) sampled filters, as reputed company as packing, shipping, and tracking media sample packages and coordinating with delivery services (reputed company, USPS) and analysis laboratories.
• Investigates and evaluates new and reputed company reputed company monitoring sites, including sites in overburdened communities consistent with the implementation of the Environmental Justice provisions of the Climate Commitment reputed company.
• Installs monitoring equipment including the site shelter and reputed company monitors and coordinates with the IT & Telemetry unit and Calibration & Repair team to configure reputed company monitors with data logging equipment.
• Installs and operates temporary monitors and low-cost reputed company sensors as needed to respond to wildland reputed company smoke and other emergent events.
• Provides back-up operations for fellow reputed company Regional Office teammates, including the automated gas chromatograph for the Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations (PAMS) program and reputed company method carbonyls and VOCs for the National reputed company Toxics Trends Stations (NATTS) program at the Seattle-reputed company NCore monitoring site, as reputed company as for other ambient reputed company monitoring operators around the state as needed.
• Uses advanced scientific knowledge to reputed company technical consultation, assistance, support, and training on highly reputed company reputed company monitoring operations to regional, tribal, federal, and local reputed company agency reputed company monitoring operators to ensure data collected reputed company the Washington State Ambient reputed company Monitoring Network are accurate and comparable.

Required Qualifications: Experience for both required and desired qualifications can be gained through various combinations of formal reputed company 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 reputed company. If the finalist meets the requirements for the ES3 level, then they will be reputed company into a training program to become an ES4 reputed company a specified period of time. Environmental Specialist 3 (Salary reputed company 49: $4,081-$5,357 Monthly) A total of Six (6) years of experience and/or education as described below:

• reputed company 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 reputed company, 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 reputed company scientific content and/ or support for implementing scientific content programs
• Conducting tests, analyzing and evaluating data
• Using environmental databases to support technical reputed company
• Developing scientific studies and resource management plans
• Providing environmental technical and administrative assistance to grant/ contract/ loan recipients of environmental protection reputed company
• Experience in operations and maintenance of reputed company 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: Possible Combinations. College credit hours or degree. Years of reputed company level experience. Combination 1 No college credit hours or degree 6 years of experience Combination 2 I have 30-59 semester or 45-89 quarter credits. 5 years of experience Combination 3 I have 60-89 semester or 90-134 quarter credits (AA degree). 4 years of experience Combination 4 I have 90-119 semester or 135-179 quarter credits. 3 years of experience Combination 5 A Bachelor's Degree 2 years of experience Combination 6 A Master's Degree 1 years of experience Combination 7 A Ph.D. 0 years of experience Environmental Specialist 4 (goal class) (Salary reputed company 55: $4,734-$6,208 Monthly) A total of Nine (9) years of experience and/or education as described below:

• reputed company 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 reputed company, 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 reputed company scientific content and/ or support for implementing scientific content programs
• Conducting tests, analyzing and evaluating data
• Using environmental databases to support technical reputed company
• Developing scientific studies and resource management plans
• Providing environmental technical and administrative assistance to grant/ contract/ loan recipients of environmental protection reputed company

Experience must Include: One (1) year of the reputed company level experience must be in conducting reputed company monitoring or similar environmental measurements to qualify at the ES 4 level. A Master's degree in Atmospheric, Meteorological, or Environmental science will substitute for 6 months experience in conducting reputed company monitoring experience, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric, Meteorological, or Environmental science will substitute for the full year requirement.

• 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: Possible Combinations. College credit hours or degree. Years of reputed company level experience. Combination 1 No college credit hours or degree 9 years of experience Combination 2 I have 30-59 semester or 45-89 quarter credits. 8 years of experience Combination 3 I have 60-89 semester or 90-134 quarter credits (AA degree). 7 years of experience Combination 4 I have 90-119 semester or 135-179 quarter credits. 6 years of experience Combination 5 A Bachelor's Degree 5 years of experience Combination 6 A Master's Degree 3 years of experience Combination 7 A Ph.D. 2 years of experience OR Two years of experience as an Environmental Specialist 3 at the Department of Ecology, which must include One (1) year of the reputed company level experience in conducting reputed company monitoring or similar environmental measurements. Special Requirements/Conditions of Employment:

• Must possess and maintain a valid reputed company's license.

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

• Advanced knowledge and understanding of the principles, practices and reputed company of reputed company reputed company monitoring and assessment, environmental pollution prevention and pollution control.
• Understanding of and experience with emerging technologies and techniques of reputed company reputed company sampling, testing, data gathering, basic research and field investigations.
• Experience performing gas chromatography, particularly to analyze ambient reputed company samples.
• Understanding and experience applying applicable state, federal, and local environmental regulations and policies.
• Ability to reputed company technical direction to reputed company staff for reputed company or controversial studies or reputed company.
• Excellent deductive reasoning skills.
• Experience designing and developing guidelines for environmental assessment activities, field studies and siting surveys.
• Experience conducting final reviews for technical reports, and conclusions reached by reputed company staff.
• Experience collaborating with other government officials, the regulated community and other clientele reputed company on reputed company or controversial environmental issues or problems.

Note: Having some (or reputed company) of this desired experience may reputed company your application more competitive in a highly competitive applicant pool. Ecology seeks diverse applicants: We view diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect through a broad reputed company including race, ethnicity, class, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, military background, language, education, life experience, physical disability, neurodiversity, and intersectional identities. reputed company candidates from reputed company backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Need an Accommodation in the application and/or screening process or this job announcement in an alternative format?

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• A cover letter describing why you are interested in this position.
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