This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more
information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/7433659
# Job Description Summary
Department - Regional Wastewater Reclamation
# Job Description
Job Type: Classified
Job Classification: 5548 - Laboratory Chemist
Salary Grade: 11
Pay Range
Hiring Range: $26.39 - $31.67 Per Hour
Pay Range: $26.39 - $36.95 Per Hour
Range Explanation:
- Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The
actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors,
including your skills, qualifications, experience, education,
licenses, training, and internal equity.
- Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position.
Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department is seeking
detail-oriented and motivated professionals to join our Compliance and
Regulatory Affairs Office (CRAO) Laboratory team. As part of our Quality
Assurance /Quality Control (QA/QC) Unit, you will play a critical role
in supporting Pima Countys Waste Treatment Facilities by ensuring the
accuracy, reliability, and integrity of laboratory data, while promoting
a safe and compliant work environment. Typical work assignments include
laboratory and contract lab review, Laboratory document and SDS
management, managing sample receiving processes, conducting internal
audits, safety meetings, and safety orientations, and maintaining safety
equipment. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute your expertise
to meaningful work that safeguards both community health and the
environment. If you are passionate about protecting public health and
the environment and have experience in laboratory water analysis, data
quality review, laboratory safety, and instrument calibration, we
encourage you to apply.
Essential Functions:
As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this
classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge,
skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is
not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by
incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the
departments needs and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent
by the supervisor.
- Performs sophisticated chemical and microbial analyses;
- Operates complicated analytical instrumentation such as ion
chromatography (IC), atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence
analyzers, gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers (GC/MS),
inductively-coupled plasma/Mass spectrometers (ICP/MS), and
inductively-coupled plasma/optical emissions spectra (ICP/OES);
- Obtains water samples, operates field instrumentation, and records
results;
- Prepares samples for testing using complex chemical extraction and
digestion techniques;
- Maintains manual and automated records and logbooks, enters and
interprets data, and prepares reports;
- Monitors laboratory data of technicians and chemists in training to
validate the accuracy and precision of analytical results;
- Assists Laboratory Supervisors in writing standardized operating
procedures and laboratory audit procedures;
- Assists Laboratory Supervisors in training Laboratory Technicians
and new staff;
- Performs routine Quality Assurance/Quality Control procedures and
documentations to comply with licensure requirements with the
Arizona Department of Health Services;
- Adheres to safety procedures in accordance with the laboratorys
Quality Manual and Chemical Hygiene Plan;
- Prepares, utilizes, and properly disposes of various chemical
standards, solvents, reagents, and bacteriological media;
- Maintains manual and automated laboratory records and logbooks for
test methods and quality control measures as required by regulatory
standards;
- Maintains facilities and equipment in accordance with departmental
and professional standards.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university with a major
in chemistry, microbiology, environmental science, biology, or other
closely related science as determined by the department head, AND two
years of professional-level, paid, non-academic experience performing
chemical or microbiological analysis in a laboratory setting.
(Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or
university may be substituted.)
OR:
Two years with Pima County as a Laboratory Technician.
Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the
"E