Excellent benefits package. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Bureau of Water Supply and Wastewater Collection is seeking a Research Scientist III to serve as an Assistant Chief for the Division for the Division of Drinking Water Quality Control in charge of the Division's Limnology and hydrology and Hydrology programs for the upstate watershed. Responsibilities will include supervision of a large professional staff of approximately 25 scientists and researchers who are responsible for sampling and analyzing water quality data from streams and reservoirs, monitoring the effect of stromwater discharges on streams, maintaining a comprehensive database on all required journal articles and technical reports. Candidate must have proven experience in supervision, drinking water quality data analysis and have a strong background in hydrology, limnology and lake or reservoir management. Excellent communication, analytical, statistical and computer skills required.
Salary commensurate with education and experience.
Excellent benefits package. By cultivating an efficient, interdisciplinary research program the emphasizes integration and close cooperation with the public and private research communities, ORD will excel as the science arm of the Agency. To promote excellence in environmental science and engineering, ORD is establishing a new, national program of graduate fellowships and substantially increasing its support foe investigator-initiated research grants. Both the public and private sectors will need a steady stream of well-trained environmental scientists and engineers if our society is to meet the environmental challenges of the future. These fellowships will defray most of the costs associates with advanced study leading to the masters or doctoral degree and thereby should attract outstanding students.