Air Quality Environmental Analyst

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. 

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

Pay Range: $154,950- $235,692 annually

$154,950  - $196,476  Annually for the TSS.3 level
$185,850  - $235,692  Annually for the TSS.4 level

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We have an opening for an Air Quality Environmental Analyst to support the Waste and Air Quality Office in the Environmental Functional Area for our Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) Division. You will be responsible for providing environmental health physics expertise in the areas of the radiological National Emission Standards of Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) (radioactive air emissions), exhaust stack air effluent monitoring, environmental as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA), including ambient radiation monitoring of normal and off-normal conditions, radiation dose assessments, and air dispersion modeling. You will also support and provide guidance to other ES&H team members, leaders, customers, and will serve as a subject matter expert to the Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and ISO regulators.

Depending on your assignment, this position may offer a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week. 

This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level. 

In this role you will

• Maintain the NESHAP monitoring and reporting program for LLNL through source term development, air dispersion modeling, monitoring regulatory requirements, monitoring of ambient air radioactivity, and direct interaction with LLNL Programs.
• Lead other air quality compliance monitoring programs for particulate matter, volatile radioiodine, beryllium, and tritium washout from precipitation.
• Revise and improve standard operating procedures, instructions, supplements, and guidance documents for designated sampling systems associated with human and biota dose assessment processes.
• Conduct air dispersion modeling using short-term and long-term modelling codes, such as HotSpot and CAP88-PC, for the potential of and for actual radioactive air emissions.
• Conduct human and biota dose assessments using DOE and EPA approved software and spreadsheet calculations. Complete data processing using statistical analysis.
• Develop realistic and programmatic staff emissions scenarios for planned future operations, working with ES&H Team members.
• Prepare annual reporting and analysis for the DOE Annual Site Environmental Report and the U.S. EPA radiological NESHAPs report.
• Conduct investigations of environmental impacts of incidents or accidents involving radiation and make recommendations to prevent a recurrence. Be a member of the LLNL-specific radiological emergency response training center with other ES&H professionals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the TSS.4 level 

• Participate on committees and workgroups within the DOE Complex, representing LLNL in highly complex radiological emissions issues.
• Act as a subject matter expert, assessing and redesigning the future of the established stack effluent monitoring program, ambient air radiation, and non-radiation monitoring programs while also evaluating the results of these programs.
• Mentor less-experienced personnel.

Qualifications

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship. 
• Bachelor of Science degree in Health Physics, Radiation Physics, Radiation Protection, Meteorology, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Natural Sciences, or equivalent combination of education and rel