Pay Range: $73,689 - $95,796 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Friday, November 14, 2025 📅
Sign-On Incentive of $6,500
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
We have an exciting opportunity for a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Programmer Analyst II in the Strategic Operations division of the Water Department. The LIMS section within Strategic Operations is responsible for day-to-day LIMS operations, maintenance, system administration, and providing user training. Additionally, the LIMS team plays a crucial role in developing and deploying system upgrades, adding new procedures and modules to support evolving business needs.
This is an in-person position that will work closely with the water/wastewater laboratory team to ensure that all LIMS processes comply with regulatory requirements from agencies such as NELAP, TCEQ, and the EPA, including strict adherence to change control and validation protocols. The ideal candidate will have strong technical experience in LIMS configuration, PL/SQL scripting, knowledge of Oracle databases, along a solid understanding of environmental or medical laboratory data workflows.
The LIMS Section provides in-person support for the laboratory’s LIMS system to address troubleshooting and resolve system-related issues that arise in the lab. This hands-on support ensures both LIMS and the laboratory operates smoothly and effectively, minimizing disruptions to lab processes and maintaining data integrity.
This Position qualifies for the following incentives which is separate from the base pay:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
The LIMS Programmer Analyst job duties & responsibilities include:
Working Conditions and Physical Demand
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met
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Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.