Environmental Analyst Hybrid

Are you passionate about protecting public health and ensuring safe, reliable drinking water for communities across Connecticut? Join our team as an Environmental Analyst 3 and play a key role in advancing statewide implementation of drinking water regulations that safeguard public health. The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) is seeking a motivated and knowledgeable Environmental Analyst 3 to serve as the lead analyst in the Lead and Copper Rule Implementation Unit (LCRIU) within the Drinking Water Section.

This position will support statewide efforts to reduce lead exposure and ensure compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR), and the upcoming Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI). In this leadership role, you will guide lower-level analysts, oversee regulatory implementation, and ensure consistency in how Connecticut’s public water systems monitor, report, and reduce lead and copper levels.

• Location:
  
  Hartford, CT
• Schedule:
  
  Monday - Friday
• Hours/Shift: Full-time (35 hours per week), First Shift
• Please note:
  
  A flex and/or teleworking schedule may be permitted

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• Professional growth and development opportunities
• A health work/life balance to all employees

• Lead and oversee the work of lower level environmental analysts in the LCRIU.
• Ensure consistent implementation of current and new lead and copper rules statewide.
• Develop and provide materials to train DWS staff, public water systems, and certified operators on current and new lead and copper rules.
• Generate lead and copper rule compliance reports to create candidate violations and review calculations to determine lead and copper action level exceedances. Oversee LCRIU staff review and actions taken on all candidate violations and exceedances.
• Update and maintain public water system information in DWS databases and tracking applications.
• Oversee the designation of optimal water quality parameter ranges for corrosion control treatment systems.
• Review water quality data to determine compliance with corrosion control treatment technique requirements.
• Review and process monthly operation reports for corrosion control treatment systems.
• Review and process lead and copper monitoring reduction requests for public water systems.
• Review and process requests from public water systems to deem to have optimized corrosion control treatment.
• Review public water system sampling site plans and verify compliance with lead and copper sample site selection requirements.
• Develop new forms, operating procedures, and guidance for internal and external use necessary to implement the current and new lead and copper rules.
• Provide regulatory and technical assistance to staff, public water systems, water system operators, consultants, and local health on issues related to lead and copper.

• The Mission of the Department of Public Health (DPH) is to protect and improve the health and safety of the people of Connecticut by:
• Assuring the conditions in which people can be healthy
• Preventing disease, injury, and disability
• Promoting the equal enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health, which is a human right and a priority of the state.

In the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection this class is accountable for acting as a working lead and/or for performing the most complex tasks in the technical review and analysis of environmental program data and issues within the environmental field, developing recommended actions and programs and implementing policy and program decisions. In other state agencies this class is accountable for acting as a working lead and/or for performing the most complex tasks in the technical review and analysis of environmental program data and issues, developing recommended actions and programs and implementing policy and program decisions.

• As assigned by the supervisor, distributes, prioritizes, assigns and reviews unit work;
• Provides staff training and assistance;
• Conducts or assists in conducting performance evaluations;
• Acts as liaison with operating units, agencies, consultant staff and other outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures;
• Recommends policies and standards;
• Prepares reports and correspondence;
• Performs related duties as required.

• Conducts specialized planning, research,…