Associate Chemist

Job Overview:
The Associate Chemist position is an intermediate level position located at the Skinner Treatment Plant laboratory in Winchester, California. This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with drinking water regulations, supporting treatment plant operations, performing routine compliance and non-compliance water quality analyses (e.g., sampling and analyzing chemistry and microbiology samples), and performing job duties that will ensure the treatment plant laboratory is in compliance with the Division of Drinking Water's Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program requirements.

This position will work independently under the direct supervision of the Treatment Plant Laboratory Team Manager and maintain close working relationships with personnel in Water Treatment and Water Quality sections.

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**EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
**Education and Experience**:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field and two years of relevant experience.

**Related field is defined as**: Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or Environmental Science.

**Relevant Experience is defined as**: chemistry and microbiology laboratory techniques and instrumentation; standard laboratory quality assurance and control requirements, including laboratory safety protocols.

**CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS**

**CLOSING**

**Benefits**:

- Competitive compensation
- Excellent medical, dental, life, vision plans.
- Deferred compensation in the form of a 401(k) plan (with matching contribution) and a 457 plan.
- Retirement benefits under the California Public Employees' Retirement System
- Tuition reimbursement
- Training and advancement opportunities
- Excellent working environment

For more information on MWD benefits, please use the following link**:Benefits Regular Full Time Employee**

**ABOUT MWD**
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a consortium of 26 cities and water districts that provides drinking water to nearly 19 million people in Southern California. Metropolitan’s mission is to provide its service area with adequate and reliable supplies of high quality water to meet current and future needs in an environmentally and economically responsible way. Metropolitan’s facilities include the 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct, five water treatment plants with a combined capacity of 2.3 billion gallons per day, nine surface water reservoirs, 830 miles of pipeline, and 15 hydroelectric power plants.

MWD is a Federal and State EO employer - Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.

**Sponsorship**: Applicants for employment with The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B or other employment-based immigration case).