Location: Rochester, NY

Title: Public Safety Laboratory Administrator

Deadline: June 29, 2026 5:00pm

Salary: $122,439 - $169,484 annually

Agency/Dept.: Public Safety

Description of Duties

This is an administrative position responsible for directing the full operation of the Public Safety Laboratory, for the Department of Public Safety. The employee also directs the performance of technical services essential to aiding the process of criminal justice and public safety. This position requires the employee be subject to call twenty-four (24) hours a day, (7) days a week. General supervision is exercised over a staff of clerical and technical personnel. The employee reports directly to, and works under the general supervision of, the Director of Public Safety. Does related work as required.

Minimum Qualifications

EITHER:

(A) Graduation from a New York State or regionally accredited college or university with a Doctoral degree in a natural science, a forensic science, an engineering science, toxicology, or criminalistics, including or supplemented by at least twelve (12) semester credit hours or its equivalent in chemistry at the graduate or undergraduate level, plus four (4) years of full-time or its part-time equivalent experience in a forensic laboratory conducting analysis in a forensic discipline, two (2) years of which must have been in a supervisory or managerial position; OR,

(B) Graduation from a New York State or regionally accredited college or university with a Master's degree in a natural science, a forensic science, an engineering science, toxicology, or criminalistics, including or supplemented by at least twelve (12) semester credit hours or its equivalent in chemistry at the graduate or undergraduate level, plus five (5) years of full-time or its part-time equivalent experience in a forensic laboratory conducting analysis in a forensic discipline, two (2) years of which must have been in a supervisory or managerial position; OR,

(C) Graduation from a New York State or regionally accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in a natural science, a forensic science, an engineering science, toxicology, or criminalistics, including or supplemented by at least twelve (12) semester credit hours or its equivalent in chemistry at the graduate or undergraduate level, plus six (6) years of full-time or its part-time equivalent experience in a forensic laboratory conducting analysis in a forensic discipline, two (2) years of which must have been in a supervisory or managerial position; OR,

(D) An equivalent combination of education and experience defined by the limits of (A), (B), and (C) above.