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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">See description below for multiple full-time positions for Air Quality Specialist at the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD). Please note the advertised
positions are located at the satellite office of South Coast AQMD in Long Beach, CA, whereas the South Coast AQMD headquarters is located in Diamond Bar, CA. Applicants must apply online through governmentjobs.com. Full description and links to apply can
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https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/scaqmd/jobs/4447841/air-quality-specialist-optical-remote-sensing-rule-1180</a></span></h2>
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SOUTH COAST AQMD AND JOB OVERVIEW</h2>
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South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) is one of the largest and most technologically sophisticated environmental regulatory agencies in the Nation. We serve a four-county region that includes large areas of Los Angeles, Orange County,
Riverside and San Bernardino counties, including the Coachella Valley, which is home to more than 17 million people. South Coast AQMD's headquarters is located in Diamond Bar, 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, at the junction of the 57 and 60 freeways.
With a highly diverse "Clean Air Team" of over 800 employees, an annual budget of $196.3 million, and a state-of-the art air quality laboratory, our mission is to ensure clean air and a healthy environment. South Coast AQMD is an organization you can be proud
to work for -- we make a difference in the quality of life in Southern California!</p>
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: 700;"><u>ABOUT THE JOB</u></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">South Coast AQMD is seeking to hire experienced individuals to fill multiple Air Quality Specialist vacancies in the Optical Remote Sensing/Rule 1180 department of the Monitoring and Analysis Division. From this recruitment process,
we expect to establish an eligibility list from which current and future vacancies may be filled during the 6–12 month life of the list. The ORS/Rule 1180 group is stationed in South Coast AQMD’s satellite office in Long Beach, CA.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">The Optical Remote Sensing/Rule 1180 team is focused on supporting activities related to the implementation of South Coast AQMD Rule 1180 – “Refinery Fenceline and Community Air Monitoring,” Rule 1180.1 - “Fenceline and Community
Air Monitoring for Other Refineries,” and advancing South Coast AQMD’s ground-based Optical Remote Sensing (ORS) program.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">The primary responsibilities of this team include the oversight, operation, maintenance, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of data from a wide range of advanced monitoring equipment for fenceline and community monitoring applications
such as: optical multi-pollutant analyzers based on in-situ and open-path Ultraviolet Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (UV-DOAS) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), automated gas chromatography (Auto-GC), and other advanced air
monitoring equipment for measurements of VOCs, and air toxics. This team is also responsible for the operation of South Coast AQMD Optical Remote Sensing Mobile Laboratory (ORS ML) for mobile surveys monitoring, source identification, and emissions estimation
purposes. This team also participates in the development of methods and procedures for the operation of ground-based ORS technologies in air quality applications.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Duties for Air Quality Specialists in the ORS/Rule 1180 department may include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Evaluate, analyze, and interpret multi-pollutant data collected at Rule 1180 and Rule 1180.1 community and fenceline air monitoring stations, and other
air monitoring programs.</span></li><li style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: black;">Operate and conduct measurements using South Coast AQMD ORS ML, and work on subsequent data validation, analysis, and interpretation.</span></li><li style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: black;">Operate advanced air monitoring equipment such as UV-DOAS and FTIR and other optical multi-pollutant analyzers, Auto-GC, multi-metal analyzers,
and other advanced VOCs and air toxics air monitoring equipment.</span></li><li style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: black;">Develop spectral retrieval for UV-DOAS and FTIR multi-pollutant analyzers.</span></li><li style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: black;">Interact with refinery and other industry representatives, and air monitoring vendors and contractors.</span></li><li style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Interact with community members and provide periodic updates on implementation and results of Rule 1180 and Rule 1180.1 community and refinery fenceline
air monitoring.</span></li><li style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: inherit;">
<span style="font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Contribute to development of standard methods for ORS measurements.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="color: black;">For more information about South Coast AQMD’s Rule 1180 Implementation/ORS program, please visit:
</span><span style="color: rgb(66, 163, 225);"><u><a href="http://www.aqmd.gov/Rule1180" id="OWAb8eb5d2b-6131-98ef-f1d6-de35dd5bb0fd" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(66, 163, 225); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.aqmd.gov/Rule1180</a></u></span><span style="color: black;">.</span></p>
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