Laboratory Information Management System Administrator – ESP0093

The Environmental Services Program (ESP) houses the State of Missouri’s Environmental Chemistry Laboratory. The laboratory provides chemical analysis to help ensure the public has safe drinking water, clean streams, and fresh air. This unique opportunity offers you to be part of a team that helps protect the health and safety of Missouri’s citizens.

This position is with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Environmental Quality, and will be located at the Environmental Services Program, 2710 W. Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65109.

• Serve as a technical expert for the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to include all software applications related to electronic data transfer, quality control tracking, fiscal reports, sample chain-of-custody, and data qualifiers.
• Modify, update, and maintain all functions related to the electronic transfer of data to and from the LIMS.
• Run search queries for LIMS database research to provide statistics used for budget decision items.
• Serve as a backup point of contact with Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) to analyze operation and maintenance of the LIMS (data backup, report creation, and posting data to the web).
• Serve as a backup point of contact to provide analysis and research necessary for technical support for the LIMS. This includes coordinating training and security/account access for existing and new users.
• Serve as a technical expert for the water quality database, Water Information Systems by KISTERS (WISKI), maintained by the ESP for managing a diverse set of water and biological data collected and reported for our client programs.

To be successful in this position, a candidate will need the following skills:

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one’s knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Oral and Written Communication: 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.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

• Bachelor’s degree in the science or information technology fields of study and 2-4 years of relevant experience. (Substitutions may be allowed.)
• Applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

Benefits & Work-life Balance

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here.

How we invest in you:

• Exceptional professional development: mentoring from experienced professionals, cross-media training, career advancement opportunities, paid trainings and continuing education tuition assistance.
• Support for professional registrations when required, through paid study materials, fees, study time, test time, exam fees and licensure renewal fees.

Rebecca Keasey, (573) 526-3399 or Rebecca.Keasey@dnr.mo.gov

or

Aarick Roberto, Recruiter at Aarick.Roberto@dnr.mo.gov

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