Data Management & QA/QC Specialist

What You Will Do…

• Work on complex and interesting projects, including: Groundwater characterization and remediation; Water resource development; Mining hydrogeology and permitting; and Environmental Assessments

• Work directly with project managers and lead technical scientists and engineers

• Actively communicate and coordinate with project managers, laboratories, and other team members

• Data Management

  • Data entry

  • Manage and organize laboratory, field, spatial and geological data to ensure quality and consistency

  • Manually check against original documents (verification)

  • Manage large databases for chemical analyses

  • Organize data for easy access, querying, and retrieval

  • Develop data reports, graphs, statistical summaries, and other supporting materials for detailed data analysis, interpretation, and reporting

  • Assist in developing standards and procedures for data management process improvements

• Quality Control and Quality Assurance and Data Validation

  • Collaborate on project work plans including the preparation and implementation of Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs)

  • Review environmental analytical data for completeness and compliance against analytical methods and QAPPs

  • Perform critical review of laboratory analytical data packages and validate analytical data using Federal and State guidelines. Data validation includes, but is not limited to, a review of raw data, initial and continuing calibrations, quality control (QC) summary forms, preparation and extraction information, sample chromatograms, Chain-of-Custody records, laboratory Case Narratives, and qualitative and quantitative assessment of results

  • Review field and/or laboratory QC samples and apply data validation qualifiers to sample results as appropriate

  • Prepare Data Validation Reports