Air Quality Assurance Program Principal 2025

• Measures, monitors, regulates, and manages resources for the Quality Assurance Program and implementation of other quality functions of the AQD's statewide ambient and meteorological monitoring network, air toxics monitoring, and other AQD Air Pollution Monitoring as applicable, in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and court decrees.
• Coordinates and performs complex independent audits of air quality and meteorological equipment, including audit documentation, accurately records/transcribes data, results notification, writes detailed technical report, certifies data as true and correct, and communicates corrective actions.
• Conducts and evaluates complex technical systems auditing of air quality and meteorological monitoring network operations, monitoring site contractors, contracted laboratories, and industrial ambient air monitoring networks, including audit documentation, results notification, writing a detailed technical report, and communicating corrective actions.
• Analyzes various complex data sets to ensure data will be of known quality, legally defensible, and sufficient for its intended use.
• Conducts complex analysis of problems using data collected through physical measurement and inspection.
• Evaluates and reports to the Project Managers, Supervisor, Program Manager, and/or Administrator on staff and contractor adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP).
• Ensures operations, validation, and assessments are of sufficient quality and scientific integrity to meet Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), State Implementation Plan (SIP), and grant funding conditions.
• Analyzes air quality and meteorological data for independent judgment of compliance with Quality Management Plans (QMP), Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP), and EPA Regulations.
• Applies independent judgment in the interpretation of formulas, templates, or standards as applied to technical data or information.
• Produces audit documentation, accurately records/transcribes data, results notification, writes detailed technical report, certifies data as true and correct, and communicates corrective actions.
• Makes recommendations to the Supervisor, Program Manager, and/or Administrator with respect to technical data, reports, and enforcement issues.
• Participate in the decision-making process at the mid-management level.
• Identifies compliance issues with state-wide entities.
• Maintains Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for the AQD's statewide ambient air monitoring network.
• Provides quality program assistance and oversight of required industrial ambient air monitoring networks, including Quality Management Plan (QMP) / Quality Assurance Plan (QAPP) management.
• Reviews draft documents to ensure inclusion of all required elements.
• Prepares technical reports and provides briefings on air quality or meteorological data analyses.
• Answers technical questions related to policies, procedures, and statutes.
• Represents the agency in meetings with various State, Federal, and private entities.
• Communicates with AQD monitoring project managers, monitoring site contractors, industry, industrial monitoring site contractors, and the EPA.
• Participates in budget matters and direction of AQD monitoring project managers and monitoring site contractors.

• Knowledge of quality management and quality assurance principles.
• Knowledge of environmental principles, theories, and practices of environmental compliance and regulation.
• Ability to work independently within areas of major responsibility, resolve conflicts and disputes, and make independent judgment of compliance.
• Knowledge of ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring systems, and analytical techniques.
• Skill in evaluating complex technical air quality and meteorological data and conducting an environmental assessment.
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills relating to statistical and pattern analysis.
• Strong ability to organize, manage, and document a large workload, and ability to meet deadlines with a quality product.
• Ability to work as a member of a team of professionals and balance disparate goals/priorities.
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply monitoring methods, rules, regulations, and criteria as well as quality assurance and quality control practices.
• Knowledge of scientific documentation practices and an understanding of certifying data as true and correct.
• Collects, qualifies, and publishes records using complex scientific monitoring and auditing equipment.
• Must possess strong communication skills (written, spoken, electronic), with particular proficiency in explaining complex technical and/or regulatory issues and concerns to varied audiences.
• Proficient with a wide variety of computer hardware and software.

• Job will require 7-10 days per month of travel, including driving a vehicle.
• This position requires occasional overnight travel
• Must have a valid driver's license.
• Job will require lifting of 50+lbs of equipment.
• Job will require climbing ladders (fixed and portable) and working at heights.
• Ability to read and work on a computer.
• Ability to work during long periods of sitting, standing, squatting, and in sometimes harsh weather conditions.
• Participation in the various groups as Wyoming's representative may require extensive travel at times.

• FLSA: Exempt
• *Successful candidate may be eligible for a hiring bonus*
• The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality may use a video interview as a mandatory first step of our process. If chosen for a video interview, you will receive an email with all the necessary information to complete the process.

State of Wyoming