Environmental Data Management Specialist at Gold Systems,… · Salt…

Environmental Data Management Specialist

Gold Systems is seeking an Environmental Data Management Specialist to join our environmental software and data support/management team. We're looking for someone who has a scientific background, a strong technical aptitude, and a natural ability to understand client challenges and identify practical solutions. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys working with people inside the environmental science space as much as working with data and technology. Our ideal candidate is a curious, resourceful problem-solver who takes the time to understand what a client is trying to accomplish and finds creative, technical, and effective ways to meet those needs.

This is not a traditional environmental science field-based position. This position will support Gold Systems' environmental data management software, GS Elements. You will work directly with environmental professionals at tribal, state, local, and other government programs, helping them solve complex environmental data management challenges. You'll help clients understand how to use our software tools, streamline data management processes, migrate data, test our software, and help to solve real environmental program challenges.

Strong interpersonal skills are essential. The ideal candidate listens carefully, builds trusting relationships, and explains technical information clearly to people with different backgrounds and levels of experience. Success in this role requires the ability to bridge environmental science, technology, and people - helping to translate complex client needs into practical solutions.

This is a full-time position with flexibility to work in either an office setting (SLC, Utah) or remotely. Some travel (estimated 4 trips a year) is required for customer meetings/training and conferences. Pay is competitive and dependent upon experience and technical/environmental data expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an environmental data subject matter expert for customers and internal development projects for analysts and software development staff.
• Review, organize, clean, troubleshoot, and validate environmental datasets, with an emphasis on water quality, air quality, biological monitoring, and habitat assessment data; support other environmental datasets as needed.
• Perform data migrations from spreadsheets, databases, legacy systems, and other data sources into GS Elements and federal systems.
• Assist clients with environmental data management strategies, workflows, data standards, QA/QC processes, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Environmental data support, including data analysis, data cleanup, migration planning, system configuration, and environmental data management recommendations.
• Provide live and web-based software training to environmental professionals with varying levels of technical experience to navigate the software and improve data management processes.
• Investigate and document issues submitted by users and distinguish between software issues, configuration issues, and underlying data-quality problems.
• Assist with testing new software functionality and releases from both a technical and environmental-science perspective.
• Develop and maintain training materials, documentation, data templates, and other customer resources.
• Stay informed about environmental data standards, regulatory reporting requirements, and emerging technologies related to environmental information management.

Must-Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, Ecology, Natural Resources, Environmental Engineering, or a related scientific discipline.
• Professional experience in a data-focused scientific or technical software implementation, or environmental consulting role. Candidates with 2+ years of relevant experience are preferred.
• Strong understanding of environmental data and monitoring concepts, particularly water quality, air quality, open dumping (Brownsfield), underground storage tanks, and water assessments.
• Demonstrated experience working with environmental datasets beyond basic data entry, including reviewing, validating, cleaning, organizing, interpreting, or preparing data for analysis or reporting.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas/functions, filtering, data manipulation, lookup functions, data validation, and efficiently working with large datasets.
• Strong technical aptitude and comfort working with data, spreadsheets, and the ability to learn the functionality and limitations of complex software applications.
• Strong analytical thinking and an enjoyment of investigating problems, identifying patterns, and finding solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and comfort working directly with clients to understand problems, explain technical concepts, and lead training sessions.
• A resourceful, self-directed approach to learning, including the ability to research unfamiliar topics, evaluate information, and recognize when additional guidance is needed.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage responsibilities across multiple clients and projects.
• A willingness to learn new technologies, environmental programs, and regulatory data requirements.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with EPA environmental data systems or regulatory reporting programs, particularly WQX, ATTAINS, AQS, or similar state/federal systems.
• Experience in business technology consulting, technical business analysis, software implementation, or application support.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, Microsoft Access, Python, R, R Shiny, or other data analysis and automation tools.
• Experience with GIS or mapping software.
• Familiarity with environmental data standards, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), and environmental reporting processes.
• Experience working under Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs).
• Experience working within a state, tribal, federal, watershed, or other environmental program
• Field or laboratory experience collecting or analyzing water, soil, air, or biological samples

About Gold Systems and GS Elements

For more information about the environmental data management software you will be supporting, visit gselements.com.

Gold Systems provides a unique opportunity to work with large technology and clients in an employee-friendly, people-oriented company. Gold Systems offers its employees:

• A unique and positive working environment
• Projects that matter
• Open access to management
• Flexible schedules
• Career mentoring
• A competitive benefits package

We are not only dedicated to the success of our clients, but also to the success of our staff. Gold Systems is an equal opportunity employer.