Jacobs is seeking a Senior Air Quality Technician to support and lead the operation, maintenance, quality assurance, and reporting activities for a network of ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring stations throughout Lambton County. This senior-level role provides technical leadership for environmental monitoring programs while ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and regulatory compliance of monitoring systems and associated data.
Working closely with engineers, scientists, project managers, regulators, and clients, you will oversee monitoring network operations, lead field activities, provide technical guidance to junior staff, and support strategic program improvements. You will be responsible for advanced troubleshooting, quality assurance oversight, regulatory reporting support, and ensuring monitoring systems meet project objectives, quality standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
This position is primarily field-based and requires regular travel to monitoring locations, occasional overtime, and after-hours support to maintain critical monitoring operations and respond to equipment or network issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the operation, installation, calibration, validation, and maintenance of ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring equipment and monitoring networks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to monitoring technicians and junior staff, including training, scheduling support, and field oversight.
- Serve as the primary technical resource for advanced troubleshooting, diagnostics, repairs, and performance optimization of analyzers, sensors, data loggers, telemetry systems, and related instrumentation.
- Ensure monitoring activities are conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements, quality management systems, and project-specific quality assurance project plans.
- Oversee data collection, validation, auditing, and quality assurance processes to ensure accuracy, completeness, and defensibility of environmental monitoring data.
- Review and prepare technical reports, inspection records, data summaries, exceedance notifications, and regulatory documentation.
- Support environmental compliance and reporting programs by interpreting monitoring results and communicating findings to project teams and clients.
- Coordinate field activities, contractor support, equipment upgrades, and network improvements.
- Maintain inventory, spare parts, calibration gases, and monitoring equipment resources to ensure operational readiness.
- Collaborate with clients, regulators, contractors, and internal project teams to resolve technical issues and support program objectives.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, operational efficiencies, and adoption of new monitoring technologies.
- Champion a strong health, safety, environmental, and quality culture while ensuring safe execution of all field activities.
