Environmental Quality Technician

The purpose of this position is to monitor water quality in the City in accordance with the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. This is accomplished by completing environmental sampling; preparing reports and maintaining records; assisting with environmental investigations; and inspecting swimming pools. Other duties include performing vector control activities; completing cross-connection inspections; and interacting with other City employees and citizens.

• Complete environmental sampling by collecting drinking water, wastewater, stream water, and soil samples and analyzing field parameters such as temperature, pH, chlorine, and ammonia.
• Prepare reports and maintain records by creating and maintaining chain of custody, entering samples into log books, and entering information onto water log sheets.
• Assist with environmental investigations by helping specialists with complaints, monitoring environmental pollution, and assisting in the collection of household hazardous waste.
• Inspect swimming pools, including commercial swimming pools, to ascertain compliance with the Texas Pool Rules.
• Perform vector control activities, including surveillance on mosquitoes with light traps, collecting mosquitoes, investigating complaints, spraying adulticide, and applying larvicide.
• Complete cross-connection inspections using gauges and by inspecting backflow devices to determine compliance with the Rules for Public Drinking Water Systems.

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Experience in environmental sampling and mosquito control highly preferred.
• Valid Texas Class C Driver’s License.
• Ability to swim and work outdoors in adverse weather conditions.
• Ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias; ability to perform basic mathematics including fractions, percentages, ratios, proportions, and measurement.
• Ability to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.
• Receives direction and performs tasks after receiving general instructions, with some discretion in decision making.
• Work requires analysis and judgment in accomplishing diversified duties and exercising independent thinking within policies, standards, and precedents.
• Persuasion is very frequent: more than 51% of work time.