About the position
Sundance Consultants, a part of True Environmental and its partner firms, have united their strengths to establish the nation's premier environmental and engineering services consulting firm. This powerhouse organization offers an extensive range of services aimed at revolutionizing the built environment and preserving the natural one. Its diverse expertise encompasses environmental remediation, urban planning, engineering iconic coastal and marine structures, developing sustainable energy sources, and pioneering resource extraction methods. With a workforce of over 450 dedicated professionals, including environmental experts, engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, surveyors, and construction management professionals, this dynamic organization operates in more than 20 offices across the U.S. Explore further at Sundance-inc.com and True-Environmental.com to discover the full scope of our capabilities. Geologist and/or Environmental Scientist staff supporting and managing project and field operations across a number of interdisciplinary projects. The position will support field activities such as soil and groundwater sampling, monitoring well installation and other project-specific tasks as needed. The hours of operation will fall between 7:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday, with occasional weekend work. Geologist and/or Environmental Scientist staff requires promoting our strong culture of safety, leadership, teamwork, and environmental responsibility. Tasks will include field work, data collection, analysis, and report preparation. Excellent written and verbal communications skills, attention to detail, and the ability to learn technical competencies for a variety of potential project types.
Responsibilities
- Provide site coordination, investigation, assessment, and remediation activities across a number of interdisciplinary fields, including groundwater and soil media.
- Lead/oversee team(s) of 3-4 individuals with environmental field work using standard industry methods.
- Perform thorough documentation of field activities including, daily safety tailgates, daily field logs, sample collection forms, photographic documentation, GPS locations, sample tracking and management, chain of custodies, quality assurance forms, and quality control review of field documentation.
- Operation and maintenance of field equipment as needed, including delegation to field technicians, including items such as organic vapor detectors, GPS units, soil and water quality parameter instrumentation, stream flow meters, compass, metal detectors, binoculars, digital camera, etc.
- Manage small projects and tasks.
- Write major portions of subcontractor scopes of work, technical memorandums and reports, and project planning documents such as APPs, SSHPs, Work Plans, and UFP-QAPPs.
- Oversee environmental drilling operations, including soil borings, monitoring well installation, monitoring well development, and monitoring well abandonment.
- Support environmental compliance activities (spill response plans, investigation derived waste permitting and management, compliance audits, etc.).
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering, geology, hydrology, environmental science, or another relevant field.
- Five (5) to ten (10) years of related experience with geologic/hydrogeologic, engineering and/or environmental investigation/remediation data collection, documentation and reporting.
- Ability to become a registered professional in associated technical field.
- Ability to pass a background check, and obtain base passes and/or security clearance.
- Ability to obtain an OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER Certification with current 8-hour.
- Ability to walk and hike through varying degrees of difficult terrain and perform job responsibilities in inclement weather conditions.
Nice-to-haves
- Must understand and comply with company safety protocols.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Ability to learn technical competencies for a variety of potential project types.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and ability to learn.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office software applications and demonstrate the ability to learn other software applications as necessary.
- Registered Professional, PG or PE or equivalent.
- Current OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER Certification with current 8-hour.
