Lead Environmental Scientist/Geologist
About The Position
An opportunity exists for a highly motivated, personable, and organized Environmental Scientist or Professional Geologist looking to advance their career as part of our growing Team of Environmental Professionals in southeastern Pennsylvania. The successful candidate will have regulatory and task management experience to support our clients and collaborate with our multi-disciplinary staff on a variety of projects. You will perform environmental assessment and remediation tasks to support environmental investigation and remediation projects at sites with contamination by materials such as solvents, petroleum fuels, metals, and PCBs. You can join a dynamic team working on large, technically engaging, and impactful projects located at active and inactive petroleum refining and storage facilities and other industrial facilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Geology or Environmental Science.
- 8-12 years of progressively responsible environmental assessment and remediation work experience.
- Be willing to learn new skills for conducting field work.
- Be willing to work independently outdoors for long hours in potentially inclement weather conditions.
- Be flexible in undertaking work assignments.
- Have excellent verbal communication and technical writing skills.
- Be conscientious, detail-oriented, and disciplined.
- Build and maintain productive professional and networking relationships within your technical team.
- Manage multiple project responsibilities simultaneously and track priorities.
- Take ownership of work, exhibit a problem-solving mindset, and approach tasks with curiosity.
- Be proficient in commonly used software (e.g. Word, Excel, etc.).
- Pre-employment physical is required.
- Good driving record and valid driver's license are required.
- Background check as well as drug and alcohol screening.
Nice To Haves
- 40-hour HAZWOPER (OSHA Hazardous Worker) certification, 8-hour OSHA Supervisor, and current 8-hour refresher certification are favorable.
- Experience with Pennsylvania and New Jersey regulatory programs is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Organize and coordinate a variety of environmental investigation and remediation tasks such as ground water monitoring, soil boring/well installations, operation and maintenance, and other activities.
- Perform a mix of office and field-based tasks including project execution, scheduling, compliance monitoring, data analysis/reduction, and technical reporting.
- Prepare site maps, soil boring logs, well construction diagrams, geologic cross sections, potentiometric surface maps, and groundwater flow models.
- Coordinate, supervise, and execute field tasks including collecting soil, sediment, water and air samples.
- Oversee drilling of soil borings and installation of monitoring wells.
- Perform hydraulic conductivity tests.
- Conduct excavation monitoring.
- Utilize instrumentation.
- Oversee subcontractors.
- Coordinate complex field tasks with multiple staff and subcontractors.
- Complete applicable company and client-required health & safety training (including OSHA-required training) and follow health & safety policies and procedures.
- Follow established standards, policies, procedures, and guidelines to complete assignments.
- Provide support to multiple Stantec offices.
- Travel may be required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
