Senior Environmental Scientist

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc. • Jacksonville, FL

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About The Position

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals. It provides multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

The Senior Environmental Scientist conducts environmental investigations, performs wetland impact analyses and permitting, and supports ecological assessment and restoration projects. The role applies ecological principles, environmental practices, and federal, state, and local regulations. It also involves some project management and business development activities.

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to requests for proposals (RFPs).
• Engage in other business development opportunities.
• Manage projects.
• Support preparation of NEPA documents, including writing environmental setting and impact analysis sections.
• Assist with and/or manage, with supervisory oversight, state, federal, and local regulatory permit application processes, including Clean Water Act Sections 404/401, and provide documentation for coordination of compliance with laws such as the U.S. Endangered Species Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and Magnuson–Stevens Act.
• Write natural environmental technical reports, field delineation reports, impact assessments, environmental inspection reports, and similar reports with supervisory input and oversight.
• Document methodologies and findings from research and field investigations.
• Characterize and assess environmental resources, including surface waters, wetlands, forests, streams, soils, plants, and wildlife.
• Collect resource data and samples during field investigations.
• Analyze and manage data collected during field investigations.
• Determine the location, scale, scope, condition, and impacts to natural resources.
• Collect field location data using GPS and create maps and other graphic materials using GIS software.
• Collect water quality, vegetation, fish, macroinvertebrate (plankton and benthic), and sediment samples.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed