Environmental Specialist; Quality Assurance​/Sampling

What do you value in your next job?

At the Orange County Sanitation District our Core Values form the framework of our organization and reinforce our professional work ethic. If the following values ring true with you, we'd love to invite you to explore our career opportunities further.

We aspire to the highest degree of integrity, inclusion, honesty, and respect in our interaction with each other, our suppliers, our customers, and our community. We strive to demonstrate these values in our actions, commitments, and service.

We lead by example, acknowledging the value of our resources and using them wisely to achieve our mission. We strive to reach OC San goals through cooperative efforts and collaboration with each other and our constituencies. We work to solve problems in a creative, cost-effective, and safe manner, and we acknowledge team and individual efforts.

We are committed to acting in a timely, accurate, accessible, and transparent manner through excellent customer service. We are committed to act in the best interest of our internal and external stakeholders.

We continuously develop ourselves, enhancing our talents, skills, and abilities. We recognize that only through personal growth and development will we progress as an agency and as individuals.

We are committed to providing a safe work environment. We will demonstrate leadership, promote individual accountability, and participate actively in the advancement of our health and safety practices.

OC San is currently looking to fill the role of an Environmental Specialist (Quality Assurance/Sampling).

Under general supervision, performs a variety of professional, technical, and analytical duties and responsibilities in support of OC San’s environmental protection, monitoring, and compliance programs such as conducting routine to moderately complex environmental analyses and studies, collecting and analyzing wastewater, marine, air, ocean sediment, fish tissue, and industrial waste samples, and conducting field work; troubleshoots and repairs equipment and instrumentation; assists in preparing, compiling, and analyzing data for the generation, submission, and distribution of reports and related documentation;

and performs duties as assigned.

Performs routine and moderately complex fieldwork for sampling efforts; learns to set up, operate, calibrate, maintain, and troubleshoot sampling and monitoring equipment and instrumentation; collects, organizes, prepares, and analyzes a wide variety of samples for operational process control, permit compliance, pretreatment program support, and regional or special projects and studies; receives and/or preserves samples and documents in sample preservation log and in Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) database.

Performs regular and preventative maintenance on basic equipment and instruments; cleans and prepares glassware; maintains quality assurance logs for equipment; performs sampling and sampler support and other lab support duties as needed.

Perform routine and moderately complex QA/QC work. Supports and coordinates contract lab shipping, ordering, and initial data review for routine testing and special projects. Supports document control, management of training records. Participates in LIMS support work. Performs various support equipment QA work, including high purity water and deionized water system. Supports implementation of Proficiency Evaluation (PE) and Proficiency Testing (PT)…