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The EPA Environmental Research and Business Support Program has immediate openings for three (3) part-time 20 hours per week Student Laboratory Support positions with the EPA’s Office of Research and Development’s Center Hill Facility in Cincinnati, OH.

What the EPA project is about

The Office of Research and Development at the EPA supports high-quality research to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and help EPA achieve its environmental goals. Research is conducted in a broad range of environmental areas by scientists in EPA laboratories and at universities across the country.

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) Land Remediation Pollution Control Division has been charged with conducting research in the area of solid waste containment and disposal including the examination and evaluation of new technologies such as bioreactor landfills. Municipal solid waste landfill owners are required to submit data to the State’s regulatory body. The data includes leachate volume and quality. There is an increasing need for the EPA to gather that data to understand long term performance.

What you will be doing

As a part-time team member, you will assist the solid waste research team with data collection/entry, laboratory analysis and experimental upkeep.

Required skills

• Legible handwriting;

• Experience with Adobe Acrobat;

• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications Excel and Access;

• Experience in administration support functions (recordkeeping, filing, etc) and managing records (electronic and hardcopy) or databases;

• Strong proof reading and editing skills; and

• Strong written, oral and electronic communication skills.

How you will apply your skills

• Digitizing information and data from scanned documents into databases,

• Recording laboratory data into appropriate EPA Laboratory Notebooks,

• Following appropriate EPA quality assurance and quality control protocols,

• Assisting with the analysis of liquid and gas samples for contaminants of concern,

• Assisting with solid waste research experiments, and

• Assisting in the collection of site-specific data from state agencies.

Location: This job will be located at the EPA Center Hill Facility in Cincinnati, OH.

Salary: Selected applicant will receive an hourly wage of $18.66 for hours worked.

Hours: Part-time 20 hours per week, Monday-Friday.

Travel: No travel is anticipated for this position.

Expected start date: This full-time position is expected to begin August 2019. The selected applicants will be temporary employees of ORAU working as a contractor to EPA. The initial project is through May 14, 2020, followed by potential option periods.

Working conditions: The selected candidate shall be supervised by a mentor who will provide day-to-day direction.

• Be at least 18 years of age and

• Have two or more years of college-level education from an accredited university or college within the last 24 months and

• Be a citizen of the United States of America or a Legal Permanent Resident.

• Citizenship: LPR or U.S. Citizen
• Degree: Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, or Doctoral Degree received within the last 24 months or anticipated to be received by 12/31/2024 12:00:00 AM.
• Minimum Overall GPA: 2.00
• Discipline(s):
  • Business (11 )
  • Chemistry and Materials Sciences (12 )
  • Communications and Graphics Design (6 )
  • Computer, Information, and Data Sciences (16 )
  • Earth and Geosciences (21 )
  • Engineering (27 )
  • Environmental and Marine Sciences (14 )
  • Life Health and Medical Sciences (45 )
  • Mathematics and Statistics (10 )
  • Other Non-Science & Engineering (13 )
  • Physics (16 )
  • Science & Engineering-related (1 )
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences (28 )

I certify that I am at least 18 years of age; Have two or more years of college-level education from an accredited university or college within the last 24 months; and not a current employee of EPA ORD or the spouse or child of an EPA ORD employee.