Laboratory Manager

The Position

The City of Portland Water Bureau is hiring a Laboratory Manager for our nationally accredited drinking water laboratory. This position ensures that the laboratory delivers chemistry and microbiological analytical data to meet drinking water compliance and support the operational needs of the Bureau. The Laboratory Manager oversees the day to day operation of the laboratory and leads a team of 12 laboratory staff. This position also ensures compliance with safety and regulatory requirements; develops and implements laboratory procedures protocols and best practices; and responds to changes in regulations that affect the operations and services of the laboratory.

The laboratory analyzes over 14000 surface water groundwater and drinking water samples per year. It operates 7 days a week and is the largest municipal fullservice drinking water laboratory in Oregon.

Major Job Duties:

The Laboratory Manager is a key leadership position within the Operations Division. They are responsible for collaborating with managers and employees both internally at the City as well as with external stakeholders to meet performance goals. Major job duties of this position include:

• Managing the generation and delivery of highquality defensible and timely chemical and microbiological analytical data to internal and external data customers.
• Leading the development of laboratory strategic planning and implementation of annual work plans to execute that vision. This includes ongoing analysis and adaptive management of services resources capacities methodologies operating procedures and work products.
• Maintaining accreditation through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP) via Oregons Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ORELAP) and ensuring compliance with all applicable federal state and local regulations and requirements.
• Leading supervising mentoring and recruiting diverse competent innovative and serviceoriented staff to support the Water Bureaus mission and strategic objectives.
• Stewarding the physical assets of the Laboratory and forecasting future fiscal needs to develop and administer an annual budget a fiveyear financial plan and necessary contract services.

About the Bureau

The Portland Water Bureaus 600 employees work together to serve drinking water to almost a million people in the Portland area. The bureau values a diverse workforce and seeks ways to promote equity and inclusion within the organization and with the public. The City of Portland Water Bureaus mission is to serve excellent water every minute of every day to almost 1 million customers in the Portland Metropolitan area. We work to uproot systemic inequities and their impacts on our employees and the people we serve. We are committed to the difficultand essentialwork of transforming Water Bureau policies practices and culture to better serve historically and currently oppressed communities. Black Indigenous People of Color and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply for this position.

More information about the Bureau can be found here: Zoom Meet & Greet Opportunity

Come meet the hiring manager and the senior recruiter! Well be talking about the position duties and responsibilities day to day life in the role review the announcement discuss how to apply and answer questions you may have about the position.

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