The City of Sunnyvale is seeking a highly responsible and engaging Laboratory Manager to join our management team in the Environmental Services Department! The Environmental Services Department provides comprehensive and innovative utility services for Sunnyvale's residents and businesses, and also facilitates initiatives to achieve the City's sustainability objectives. The Department brings together technical, operational, and administrative professional disciplines to form its dedicated and dynamic team. The City’s Environmental Laboratory provides water quality analysis to support Drinking Water and Wastewater Management. The Lab team includes 10 positions and conducts approximately 48,000 analyses annually.
For the Laboratory Manager, the City of Sunnyvale:
- contributes 4% of the 7% employee contribution to CalPERS for classic members;
- contributes 2% of an employee's gross pay to a deferred compensation plan;
- provides generous retiree medical benefits, and
- provides fully employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Under general direction of a Division Manager, plans, organizes, directs, and administers the laboratory located at the Water Pollution Control Plant; supervises and coordinates the work of laboratory, industrial waste and administrative professionals, technicians and support personnel. This position entails significant regulatory responsibility with regard to compliance with and enforcement of: municipal ordinances, Regional Water Quality Control Board regulations, Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
The minimum qualifications for education and experience can be met in the following ways:
A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, microbiology, chemical engineering or a closely related field, and four or more years of experience in the analysis of water, wastewater, solid waste, hazardous waste or other environmental samples in an analytical laboratory or in an industrial pretreatment facility associated with a wastewater or water treatment facility, of which at least two years are at a supervisory level.
A Master's degree in a related field may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
A complete application consists of a City application and responses to the required supplemental questions. The position opens on Monday, June 17, 2024 and the final filing date is Thursday, July 11, 2024, at 5:00 pm. Candidates are asked to fully describe any training, education, experience, or skills relevant to this position.