The State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville is seeking an Environmental Laboratory Analyst to work in its Analytical Chemistry Testing Program. The analyst will perform analyses of water, food, and environmental samples for wide variety of chemical and radiological contaminants. The Analyst will be responsible for maintaining and operating various instrumentation, including gas-flow proportional counters, liquid scintillation counters, gamma spectrophotometers, liquid and gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers and other associated equipment to ensure prompt analytical response and minimal turnaround times back to external partners and customers.

Work Schedule:

• Normal working hours are 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday.
• However, this position must be willing to be available to respond to emergency response analyses at potentially unconventional business hours or on the weekend in emergency situations.

Work Modality: In-Person, on-site.

 

About Pay and Compensation:
University of Iowa offers a generous benefits package, including paid vacation and sick leave. Complete information regarding the full benefits package may be viewed at https://hr.uiowa.edu/benefits

About the State Hygienic Laboratory
The s main facilities are headquartered on the University of Iowa's Research Park campus northwest of Iowa City in Coralville. Additional testing facilities are part of the Iowa Laboratory Facilities in Ankeny, a Des Moines suburb.

Since 1904, the State Hygienic Laboratory has been at the forefront of public health issues in Iowa. As the state’s public health and environmental laboratory, the Hygienic Laboratory serves all of Iowa’s 99 counties through disease detection, environmental monitoring, and newborn and maternal screening.

Qualifications:

Education or Equivalency Required

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or closely related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to perform tasks that require accuracy, attention to detail, including accurate record keeping.
• Demonstrates effective communication, using varied tools and techniques to transmit, receive, and interpret information, both written and verbally.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and civil manner and utilize existing resources and learning to achieve or exceed desired outcomes of current and future organizational goals and needs.
• Extensive proficiency with Windows based systems, computer and digital operations.

Highly Desirable Qualifications

• Demonstrate six months to one year, of relevant laboratory experience.
• Demonstrate working knowledge and experience using and maintaining laboratory instrumentation.
• Basic environmental lab testing experience (e.g., water or other environmental testing) in high throughput lab setting.

Desirable Qualifications

• Basic familiarity with state and federal environmental testing regulations.
• Demonstrate working knowledge and experience with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
• Experience with gas chromatography with various detectors such as mass spectrometer, electron capture detector (ECD), flame ionization detector (FID).
• Experience with high performance liquid chromatography with various detectors such as mass spectrometer, ultraviolet (UV), and fluorescence.
• Basic experience with radiochemistry testing, including Alpha Spectrometry, Gamma Spectrometry, Gas-flow Proportional Counting, or Liquid Scintillation Counting.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. Up to 5 professiona l references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

 

The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preferences.