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Job Description

LABORATORY SUPERINTENDENT

JOB CODE 50690

Effective Date:	03/94N

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE CLASS:

The fundamental reason this classification exists is to manage the compliance and process laboratories in the Laboratory Division of the Water Services Department. The Laboratory Superintendent is responsible for developing and managing all laboratory testing programs in response to federal and state environmental regulations; ensuring that all laboratories maintain required facility certifications; long-range planning for staffing and equipment acquisition; and developing and reviewing new analytical procedures. Direct supervision is exercised over Chemist III positions. Work is performed under the general supervision of the Assistant Water Services Director for Technical Services and performance is evaluated on the basis of results achieved.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supervises the work of professional and technical staff involved in compliance and process laboratory testing;
• Plans and oversees the development and implementation of new analytical procedures and monitors programs relating to water and wastewater treatment, public health, and environmental issues;
• Reviews regulations, legislation, and permits for impact on laboratory operations and represents the City's interests at public meetings, hearings, and workshops;
• Testifies at Environmental Protection Agency hearings;
• Develops and recommends to management long-range programs and staffing needs for the City to enhance and expand its testing responsibilities;
• Presents compliance and process testing program information to City Council, other jurisdictions, and the public;
• Plans, coordinates, and directs compliance and process testing related studies and projects;
• Serves as the Department liaison to the Environmental Protection Agency and Arizona Department of Environmental Quality on compliance and process testing programs;
• Plans and administers the division's budget;
• Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Chemistry: analytical, inorganic, and physical.
• Accepted quality assurance/quality control procedures used in environmental analysis.
• Laboratory safety and approved chemical disposal practices.
• Laboratory manipulative procedures, and scientific methods and procedures.
• Principles and practices of personnel management and supervision.
• Budget administration and cost analysis.

Ability to:

• Perform a broad range of supervisory responsibilities over others.
• Comprehend and make inferences from written material in the English language.
• Communicate orally in the English language with customers, clients, and the public in one-to-one face-to-face settings, in group settings, and using a telephone.
• Produce written documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
• Work cooperatively with the public and other City employees.
• Work safely without presenting a direct threat to self or others.
• Review or check the work products of others to ensure conformance to standards.

Additional Requirements:

• Some positions will require the performance of other essential and marginal functions depending upon work location, assignment, or shift.

ACCEPTABLE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
Five years of supervisory experience in professional environmental laboratory work and a bachelor's degree in chemistry, microbiology, or a related field. Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.