Water Specialist - NER

Water Specialist - NER
0038 – State of Missouri

The State of Missouri is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the environment for our citizens. We value stewardship, integrity, collaboration, respect, and innovation, and strive for a culture of belonging and work‑life balance.

Location:

Northeast Regional Office, 1709 Prospect Drive, Macon, Missouri 63552.

• Conduct training classes for operators to gain certification, recertification, or renewal hours for drinking water treatment, distribution system, and wastewater treatment. Develop training resources and coordinate the selection of courses and materials needed to meet the state’s training requirements for both drinking water and wastewater. Present multi‑level single‑day and multi‑day training courses both in person and in a virtual setting.
• Schedule and conduct routine and priority environmental inspections and investigations of major municipal wastewater treatment facilities, community and non‑community public water systems, and determine compliance with federal and state environmental laws and regulations.
• Serve as a consultant to other departmental staff, consulting firms, public drinking water and wastewater operators, professional groups, and others on public drinking water and wastewater operations and operational problems.
• Maintain analytical equipment, reagents, sampling, and laboratory supplies, and develop and coordinate the quality assurance/quality control program for field and laboratory equipment for drinking water and wastewater.

• Self‑Management: Sets well‑defined personal goals, demonstrates initiative and commitment, works with minimal supervision, and is motivated to achieve results.
• Attention to Detail: Thorough in performing work and conscientious about details.
• Oral & Written Communication: Expresses information clearly to individuals or groups, considers audience, listens, and responds appropriately.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, weighs relevance and accuracy of information, generates and evaluates alternative solutions, and makes recommendations.

• A bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences, natural resources, physical sciences, or a closely related field and four or more years of relevant experience. Additional education or experience may be substituted.
• Minimum “C” level Wastewater Treatment certification, “C” level Drinking Water Treatment and “II” Distribution Certification is preferred but not required.

Lack of post‑secondary education will not be used as the sole basis for denying consideration to any applicant.

Our benefits package and flexible 40‑hour work week promote the mental and physical health of you and your family while you pursue professional goals. Benefits include paid vacation and sick leave, paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision, and prescription insurance.

• Exceptional professional development: mentoring, cross‑media training, career advancement opportunities, paid training and continuing education tuition assistance.
• Support for professional registrations when required, through paid study materials, fees, study time, test time, exam fees and licensure renewal fees.

Contact:
Jon Basler, Environmental Program Supervisor – 660‑385‑8000 or jonathan.basler.gov
Sally Namassy, Recruiter – dnr.recruiter.gov

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Management and Manufacturing
• Industries:
  Government Administration