Currently, there are multiple exciting ESS series opportunities in the department’s Sustainability and Compliance (SCD) and Water Resources divisions! To learn more about the great work we do in these divisions, please go to sjenvironment.org. Overviews of these teams and their ESS series positions are below:
Sustainability and Compliance Division’s Wastewater Compliance Team
This position supports regulatory compliance and reporting at the Regional Wastewater Facility (RWF) and supports special environmental evaluation studies at the RWF and in San Francisco Bay by performing fieldwork in the lower South San Francisco Bay and tributary areas by boat to sample water and sediment for chemical and biological indicators to evaluate environmental conditions. This position will also manage environmental monitoring databases, ensuring data is valid, accurate, up-to-date, and readily available for answering questions about environmental condition. This position also participates on assigned technical teams as a responsible, proactive, and professional member supporting and advising Capital Improvement projects at the RWF and on regional stakeholder planning and scientific groups.
Responsibilities include:
- Compiling and analyzing water quality data and treatment plant process data for regulatory compliance reporting
- Leading, designing, conducting, and supporting field studies (water quality and environmental sampling) to evaluate environmental condition of San Francisco Bay
- Coordinating and collaborating with cross functional groups to ensure regulatory compliance databases are reporting complete and accurate data
- Responding to, compiling, and summarizing data requests from internal and external partners and colleagues as needed
- Drafting assigned reports or sections of reports as required
- Drafting and managing consultant contracts
- Attending assigned regional stakeholder meetings as a City representative and productive contributing member of the stakeholder group
- Reviewing technical and non-technical reports as assigned and providing comments and recommendations to managers