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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST 1/2/3

Salary

$1,672.80 - $2,641.60 Biweekly

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

25-63 ES BR KS

Department

Department of Environmental Quality

Division

OEA AIR FIELD SERVICES / AIR PLANNING

Opening Date

07/11/2025

Closing Date

7/21/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

The Department of Environmental Quality/Office of Environmental Assessment has a vacancy. This position is located in the Air Field Services section of the Air Planning Division.

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s (LDEQ) mission is to provide service to the people of Louisiana through comprehensive environmental protection in order to promote and protect health, safety, and welfare.

We're looking for driven, solutions-oriented scientists to join the Office of Environmental Assessment within the Air Planning Division-a team dedicated to protecting Louisiana's air quality through sound science, planning, and infrastructure investment. In accordance with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment and the Code of Federal Regulations, you'll play a key role in maintaining air quality initiatives that are related to principles, concepts, and techniques of higher mathematics, the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences, and with federal and state rules, regulations and guidelines.

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree in an environmental, biological, atmospheric, chemical, health, nuclear or physical science field, an engineering field, a geography/geosciences field, a natural resources field, or in a statistics or quantitative methods field; OR

A master’s degree or doctorate in an environmental, biological, atmospheric, chemical, health, nuclear or physical science field, an engineering field, a geography/geosciences field, a natural resources field, or in a statistics or quantitative methods field.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=150030) .

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

The incumbent of this position performs technical, administrative, and professional work at an advanced level in the Air Field Services Section. This position requires complete understanding of the operation of LADEQ's ambient air monitoring program involving more than 38 monitoring sites statewide. Work is performed in accordance with principles, concepts, and techniques of higher mathematics, the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences, and with federal and state rules, regulations and guidelines related to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Code of Federal Regulations, (CFR) and the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act. The position requires use of a state vehicle in the performance of duties, since these duties frequently require travel to monitoring sites throughout the state. Supervision is received from an Environmental Scientist Supervisor.

+ Collect ambient air data by ensuring that all equipment is maintained and operational at all times. This involves making sure that all equipment is reporting to ProComm, the AirVision system and to the LADEQ webpage. Evaluate, interpret, calculate, validate and report data generated by the analytical system. Assess results in an attempt to regulate environmental effects. Participates in intensive ozone and particulate studies during the summer months. Responsible for the continuous operation of air monitoring stations.

+ Maintain schedule of calibrations, verifications, precision checks and certifications of site instrumentation as part of the QA/QC mandated by the U.S. EPA to retrieve excellent data. Record all documentation in site logbooks and quarterly site excel files. Submit all files to Data Analysis Group and ES Supervisor for review which are filed in EDMS.

+ Troubleshoot and perform maintenance and repairs on instrumentation to make sure a high percentage of data quality is captured for the monitoring network. Determine needs, provide specifications, and recommend the purchase of equipment and supplies to be used within the section.

+ Perform maintenance to ensure that the ambient air monitoring sites are kept neat and orderly – both inside and outside.

+ Miscellaneous job duties.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: This position may be filled as either a probational appointment, job appointment (a temporary appointment not to exceed four years), or promotion of permanent classified employee. If the position is filled as a job appointment, it could be converted to a probational appointment should funding become available.

Domicile: East Baton Rouge

Career Progression: This position may be filled as an Environmental Scientist 1, 2, or 3

Compensation: This position offers a Special Entrance Rate (SER) listed below. This is the minimum compensation that may be offered. The job title and salary offered will be determined based on qualifications and experience.

+ Environmental Scientist 1: $20.91 per hour

+ Environmental Scientist 2: $22.38 per hour

+ Environmental Scientist 3: $25.62 per hour

Overview of the five major offices within the agency:It provides information on the mission, function, and organization along with a biography for each member of management.

+ Office of the Secretary (https://www.deq.louisiana.gov/directory/office/office-of-the-secretary)

+ Office of Management and Finance

+ Office of Environmental Services (https://www.deq.louisiana.gov/directory/office/office-of-environmental-services)

+ Office of Environmental Compliance

+ Office of Environmental Assessment (https://www.deq.louisiana.gov/directory/office/office-of-environmental-assessment)

Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities. Equal Opportunity Employer.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test scoreis required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

Please make every effort to attach a copy of your transcript to your application if possible (PDF format preferred). The selected candidate will be required to submit original documentation upon hire .

You must submit an equivalency evaluation statement for any international degree(s) by the closing of this announcement.

For recruitment purposes, applicants who are within 90 days of graduating with a bachelor’s degree may be eligible for this position.

Contact Information:

For further information about this vacancy, contact:

Kierra Smith

LA Department of Environmental Quality

Office of Management and Finance

[email protected]

(225)219-3830

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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Are you within 90 days of receiving your completed Bachelor's degree?

+ Yes

+ No

02

Please list your degree information as it is written on your transcripts. Include the degree, major, and concentration if applicable. (Example: Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Fisheries Biology)

Required Question

Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

For agency contact information, please refer to

the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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