The Public Drinking Water Branch needs to manage and maintain accurate lead and copper databases, ensuring data quality and compliance with regulations for public water systems.
Requirements
- Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
- Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
Responsibilities
- Update the Public Drinking Water Branch’s lead and copper databases with monitoring data as it comes into the Branch, and assemble packets for mailing to public water systems;
- Oversee the certification process for the required publication of 90 th percentile results by public water systems for lead and copper;
- Work with the Lead and Copper Rule manager regarding potential violations and sample schedule notifications;
- Pull queries and reports from the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) database in response to data requests from Branch staff, DNR regional office staff, and the general public;
- Review inspection reports of public water systems and make appropriate updates in the SDWIS database;
- Ensure data quality and accuracy of SDWIS inventory data so public water system data can be relied on by department staff and the general public.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree and 0-2 years of relevant experience and/or appropriate certification
- Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, consider the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
- Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
- Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy, and communicates it by a variety of methods.
- Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.
