Senior Environmental Scientist

What Your Day Will Look Like

This individual will work with internal leadership and staff, as well as external partners which include clients, government entities, consultants, and other key stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of high quality products and maintaining in-house schedules.

This individual will serve as an Environmental Task Lead overseeing environmental facets of infrastructure projects. Responsibilities will include performance of environmental assessments (desktop and field), impact evaluations, environmental surveys, environmental permitting, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations as well as operational responsibilities of managing scope and maintaining project terms and conditions.

This individual will be required to work both independently and cooperatively with a support team that is both in-house and remote.  This individual will operationally take full ownership and responsibility for all aspects of accepted assignments.

This individual will be comfortable using various technologies to maintain team communications, to share data, to internally publish developed information, to perform analytical functions, to interdependently support of company projects.  The initial focus will be on supporting transportation projects in Florida and Georgia as part of PD&E and NEPA authorizations, as well as subsequent development authorization.  The practice will expand into other engineering support services and other types linear projects.

This position requires demonstrable Domain Knowledge and Professional Experience with:

• Clean Water Act
• Endangered Species Act
• Migratory Bird Treaty At
• Marine Mammals Protection Act
• Clean Air Act
• Section 4f FHWA
• National Environmental Policy Act
• Environmental risk management
• Rivers and Harbors Act
• Sustainability sciences
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• State, County, and Municipal analogs of the cited statues
• Environmental siting, due diligence, permitting and compliance
• Florida Project Development & Environmental Studies
• National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
• Florida ERP and promulgated 404 authority

The successful candidate will have a demonstrable history with the following subjects, product preparation in support of securing authorizations, and relative field skill sets to collect primary data:

• PD&E & NEPA document preparation
• Environmental field studies
• Field data collection – GPS, Transects, Vegetative cover assessments, Habitat qualification, wildlife tracking
• Tree surveys
• Wetland delineation
• Functional Assessments for:
  • Wetlands
  • Streams
  • Habitat
  • Mitigation
• Stream assessment & classification

• Habitat and ecosystem mapping
• Water quality sampling
• Sediment sampling
• Seagrass, Coal, and Hard bottom surveys
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Surveys,

• Wildlife surveys, included but limited to:
  • Large mammals
  • Protected species
  • Bats
  • Aquatic fauna

Production skill sets

• Demonstration of strong written and verbal skills through reports, memos, emails, in person and virtual meetings, and public settings
• Proven experience managing the environmental investigations, Section 10/404 permit preparation, impact evaluation, construction monitoring, and mitigation planning activities for infrastructure projects
• Demonstration of assessing and analyzing a project’s potential impacts as to predict permitting needs and develop strategies for securing necessary development authorizations.
• Effective coordination with other staff in the preparation of quality project documents and field investigations.
• Public speaking before agencies and as part of public outreach

What You'll Do

• Strong understanding of federal, state and local environmental regulations and the application and approval processes for linear and point projects’ authorizations
• Demonstrable experience on environmental compliance projects including working through compliance conflicts to timely solutions
• Implementing data management tools
• Strong communication skills including the ability to work well in a team environment, collaborative skills with colleagues and stakeholders in different disciplines and geographic regions
• Strong experience in working with linear projects
• Creative thinker and problem solver

What You'll Need

• Degree from a program in Biology, Ecology, Geology, Environmental Sciences, or related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of environmental consulting experience.
• Must be routinely available for overnight travel of 1-3 days, and less common travel of 5.5 business days.
• Project locations may include Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Tennessee
• Experience handling a portfolio of multiple task assignments, meeting production and calendar due dates.
• Actively promote and follow safety guidelines, procedures, working for zero injury.
• Ability to sit at a desk and work for extended periods of time.
• Ability to walk on uneven outdoor surfaces.
• Ability to perform extended field surveys of up to 8-hours a day for successive days. Occasional travel days can be 10-11 hour days.
• Ability to perform field investigations, requiring being outdoors in all seasons, be in and around wetlands, streams, rivers, and coastal environments
• Day and occasional evening field efforts
• Position is exempt from overtime.
• Professional licensure and certifications preferred