Senior Environmental Scientist

Wood • Tampa, FL

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About The Position

Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Environmental Scientist with extensive experience in water quality and natural resource restoration in Central Florida. The ideal candidate will be team-oriented and self-directed with recent experience in addressing complex water quality issues. Experience serving as a primary point of contact for clients and working as part of field teams, knowledge of field data collection, familiarity with water and sediment quality collection techniques and instruments, small boat handling capabilities, familiarity with toxicology testing/data, and experience with scientific diving is desirable. Strong writing skills are required. This person will be a member of a team providing engineering and scientific consulting services to private industry and government clients. This position will support a wide variety of projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in environmental science
• 15+ years environmental science / consulting experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of scientific principles
• Excellent computer applications and spreadsheet skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience in water quality and natural resource restoration in Central Florida
• Team-oriented and self-directed
• Recent experience in addressing complex water quality issues
• Experience serving as a primary point of contact for clients
• Working as part of field teams
• Knowledge of field data collection
• Familiarity with water and sediment quality collection techniques and instruments
• Small boat handling capabilities
• Familiarity with toxicology testing/data
• Experience with scientific diving

Responsibilities

• Developing and leading the implementation of water resource planning efforts
• Leveraging large environmental datasets and implementing statistical and mechanistic models to provide appropriate science-based inference
• Evaluating and providing recommendations for improvements for waterbodies not meeting state and federal water quality standards
• Supporting development of minimum flows and levels
• Managing complex water quality projects
• Determining required scope and level of effort of project work, including the degree of completeness and precision to which project elements should be addressed
• Maintaining a high level of skill in communications, with emphasis on the preparation of clear and concise written reports.
• Demonstrating a high level of competence in directing and managing single-disciplined projects and/or small to moderate-sized, multi-disciplined projects
• Providing technical direction to and mentors junior staff.
• Responsible for ensuring that Wood’s administrative and financial policies and procedures as well as the methods and procedures specific to his/her specific discipline are followed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior