Description: MassDEP seeks applicants for Deputy Division Director of the Air Assessment Branch within the Bureau of Air and Waste, Division of Air and Climate Programs. This position is assigned to MassDEP's Wall Experiment Station, 37 Shattuck Street, Lawrence, MA. Under the supervision of the Division Director of Air and Climate Programs, the Deputy Division Director provides senior-level technical, operational, and administrative leadership for the Air Assessment Branch, directing statewide air monitoring programs and administering personnel, budgets, grants, data systems, quality assurance activities, and special monitoring initiatives.
The Air Assessment Branch is responsible for operating MassDEP's statewide ambient air quality monitoring network and providing high-quality, scientifically defensible air monitoring data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act, and to the public.
Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: - Direct and coordinate day-to-day statewide ambient air monitoring operations and related technical programs, ensuring continuity of operations and timely delivery of qualified, regulatory-quality air monitoring data to internal and external stakeholders.
- Establish strategic priorities, including workforce planning, monitoring network modernization, technology deployment, infrastructure needs, and program improvements.
- Supervise and provide direction to professional, technical, scientific, administrative, and field staff.
- Allocate staff and financial resources to ensure that critical operational and regulatory responsibilities are completed effectively and on schedule.
- Participate in recruitment, hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, succession planning, and professional development of branch personnel.
- Promote coordination and effective communication among monitoring, data management, quality control, quality assurance, technical, and administrative staff.
- Implement Commonwealth of Massachusetts policies and develop procedures to achieve branch goals.
- Manage MassDEPs' statewide ambient air quality monitoring network, including monitoring stations, instrumentation, telemetry, data acquisition systems, and associated infrastructure.
- Periodically evaluate monitoring network design, siting, instrumentation, emerging technologies, and changing regulatory requirements and recommend modifications to maintain an effective and compliant statewide network.
- Provide oversight of the branch QA program including maintenance of quality assurance project plans (QAPPs), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and QC activities necessary to ensure that monitoring data are complete, accurate, traceable, and defensible.
- Manage capital and grant budgets; prioritize expenditures consistent with program needs and available resources; oversee procurement of air monitoring equipment, supplies, and services; and monitor contractor and vendor performance to ensure compliance with technical, contractual, fiscal, and programmatic requirements.
- Represent MassDEP in state, regional, and national air monitoring committees, workgroups, technical forums, conferences, and stakeholder meetings.
Preferred Qualifications: - Strong supervisory and personnel management skills, including the ability to lead multidisciplinary professional and technical teams.
- Ability to evaluate complex technical problems, assess alternatives, exercise sound judgment, and implement practical solutions.
- Experience developing and administering budgets, grants, contracts, procurements, or similar program resources.
- Knowledge of air pollution science, regulations, monitoring methods, and QA/QC procedures.
- Experience conducting environmental monitoring operations in accordance with an EPA approved QAPP and associated SOPs.
- Ability to use hand tools, climb ladders, work on roof tops, move equipment and compressed gas cylinders and other equipment up to 50 lbs. in weight.
- Basic computer skills, including a working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.
- Possession of a valid driver's license.
Qualifications:MINIMUM ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS: Applicants must have at least (A) six (6) years of full-time or, equivalent part-time, professional, administrative, supervisory, or managerial experience in business administration, business management, public administration, public management, clinical administration or clinical management of which (B) at least two (2) years must have been in a project management, supervisory or managerial capacity or (C) any equivalent combination of the required experience and substitutions below.
Substitutions: I. A certificate in a relevant or related field may be substituted for one (1) year of the required (A) experience.
II. A Bachelor's degree in a related field may be substituted for two (2) years of the required (A) experience.
III. A Graduate degree in a related field may be substituted for three (3) years of the required (A) experience.
IV. A Doctorate degree in a related field may be substituted for four (4) years of the required (A) experience.
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