Environmental Scientist
An established, employee-owned environmental consulting firm is hiring an Environmental Scientist to support scheduled and time-critical responses to site-related environmental issues, including disaster and emergency response, environmental investigations, and remedial alternatives analysis.
Employee ownership means a direct stake in the business, along with broad exposure across service lines and a connected team culture.
This role suits someone who is confident with air sampling and monitoring instrumentation and comfortable mobilizing quickly for field assignments nationwide.
What you'll be doing
- Calibrating, maintaining, deploying, and collecting data from handheld, portable, and transportable air sampling and monitoring devices
- Developing and implementing sampling, monitoring, and data collection plans with senior level oversight
- Implementing multi-media, multi-matrix sampling techniques
- Collecting soil, groundwater, and surface water samples for field screening and laboratory analysis
- Responding to releases of oil and hazardous materials, providing assessment and contractor oversight
- Assisting with environmental site assessments consistent with US EPA standards
- Providing oversight and sampling during soil boring and monitoring well installation
- Overseeing remedial excavation activities, and installing and operating remediation systems including in-situ remediation
- Managing analytical data, including tabulation, QA/QC, and evaluation
- Preparing plans, maps, and boring logs, and assisting with technical reports and work plans
What we're looking for
- B.S. degree with a minimum of 5 years of recent, relevant experience in air sampling and monitoring protocols
- Working knowledge of field instrumentation, including calibration, field implementation, and interpretation of results
- Ability to exercise judgment on methods and approaches where standard procedures fall short
- Strong technical writing skills for daily and final reports, plans, and procedures
- Availability to respond at short notice and travel for periodic field assignments nationwide
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