Stantec - Bakersfield, CA

posted 14 days ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Bakersfield, CA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, Stantec's experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We're a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that's critical to our clients and the communities they support. Stantec is seeking a consulting biologist with a minimum of 2 to 5 years of experience to join our southern California Ecosystems Group by operating out of our Santa Barbara, California office. Biologists with strong botanical survey, habitat mapping, and vegetation sampling skills are a plus. We welcome a talented and collaborative team member with demonstrable experience along the Central Coast and elsewhere. As a Project-level Biologist with Stantec, you will be relied upon to support and potentially lead field teams and support technical documentation efforts for a variety of multi-disciplinary projects for diverse clientele and business sectors. You will support program research, planning and development, permitting, compliance monitoring, surveys, inspections/ enforcement, and technical support services in relation to biological resources. You will also assist project teams and senior level staff with writing reports, work as part of a team to develop plans and implement steps to move projects toward closure in the most cost-effective manner.

Responsibilities

  • Provide desktop support (e.g., database searches and literature review) to the project team during the development, management, and coordination of the natural environment component of projects and programs for renewable energy, oil and gas, and other development projects.
  • Assist with field work such as botanical surveys, breeding bird surveys, vegetation community assessments and mapping, vegetation sampling, wetland delineation and classification, special-status species surveys, and construction monitoring, including the preparation of parts or all associated reporting.
  • Provide input to field teams and guide more junior level staff to effectively and appropriately complete tasks.
  • Assist with the planning and preparation of technical reports (e.g., biological resources technical reports, jurisdictional delineation reports, monitoring reports, etc.) or portions of larger environmental assessments.
  • Assist business development teams to respond to Requests for Proposals including defining the scope of work, associated cost and compiling relevant sections of proposal documents.
  • Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of existing and emerging regulatory requirements, wildlife and vegetation assessment methodologies and best practices.
  • Develop a working understanding of Stantec's other consulting practice areas and actively support cross-selling other services to existing clients.
  • Maintain an 85-90% direct project utilization goal.
  • Travel will be required within and outside of southern California.

Requirements

  • Minimum 2 to 5 years of related experience demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility in conducting biological resources surveys and preparing technical reports.
  • Strong background, knowledge, and experience with the flora, fauna, and vegetative communities of the Central Coast; experience in other areas of California and elsewhere will be considered a plus.
  • Experience in conducting floristic botanical surveys, reconnaissance wildlife surveys, and species-specific protocol surveys.
  • Proficient in technical writing; experience preparing technical reports will be considered a plus.
  • Experience with regulatory compliance and/or preparing regulatory permit applications packages will be considered a plus.
  • Possess skills in communications and technical information exchange with clients, engineers and scientists, government regulators and agencies, and academia.
  • Highly proficient with MS Office suite (e.g., Microsoft Word, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Adobe Acrobat, Excel).
  • Knowledge and familiarity with field implementation, data gathering and collection using GPS and GIS tools.
  • Must have a valid driver's license and good driving record.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience/permits with steelhead trout, tidewater goby, California tiger salamander, California red-legged frog, western snowy plover, California least tern, least Bell's vireo, southwestern willow flycatcher, and/or coastal California gnatcatcher.
  • Experience working in the marine environment will be considered a plus.
  • Possession of a California Scientific Collecting Permit, State Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and or federal Recovery Permit for special-status species will be considered a plus.
  • Wetland delineation training certificate will be considered a plus.
  • 40-Hour HAZWOPER would be a plus.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Wellness program
  • Health saving accounts
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • 401(k) plan
  • Employee stock purchase program
  • Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
  • Short-term/long-term disability plans
  • Emergency travel benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Professional membership fee coverage
  • Paid family leave
  • Ten paid holidays in each calendar year
  • Accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year
  • Eligible for paid sick leave
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