Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessor

Arcadis • Portland, OR

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About The Position

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to
improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

The Environmental Business Line of Arcadis is seeking an ambitious, hardworking, dependable scientist to support human health risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, and/or toxicology focused projects. The preferred location for this position is Portland, OR but Arcadis has offices throughout the US and the specific location for this position is flexible. This full-time position within our Risk Assessment and Toxicology group will support our diverse environmental assessment and restoration projects. The ideal candidate will possess great attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to work independently and will be capable of working as a productive member of a high-performance team.

Requirements

• BA or BS in Environmental Science, Biology, Toxicology, or closely related field.
• 0-2 years of experience
• strong academic foundation in the life sciences, demonstrated by relevant coursework in biology, zoology, toxicology, and chemistry, and the ability to apply that knowledge to real-world environmental and technical challenges.
• highly proficient with Microsoft Office, with advanced skills in Excel for data analysis, reporting, and visualization.

Nice To Haves

• specialized academic experience in risk assessment and chemical fate and transport
• completed advanced coursework in statistics and possess expertise in data visualization, enabling them to interpret complex datasets and communicate insights effectively.
• Proficiency with R coding for statistical analysis and modeling and familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot

Responsibilities

• Supporting human health and/or ecological risk assessments and site investigations.
• Working effectively with local and national project teams, clients, and all other stakeholders.
• Analyzing and interpreting field data.
• Preparing visual, graphical, and tabular summaries of environmental data and trends.
• Technical report writing.
• Supporting proposal efforts.
• Conducting project related research (historical data, regulations, etc.).
• Interpreting state and federal regulations.
• Fieldwork (e.g., habitat assessment, environmental sample collection, emergency response)

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.
• nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year.
• The salary range for this position is $55,200- $82,800.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees