Assistant Project Manager, Environmental Scientist

Duties/Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee project environmental data reduction, summarization, visualization tasks; feasibility studies, permitting tasks, and environmental planning studies.
• Split time among completing technical tasks, such as field assignments, reporting, and analysis of task management and project management support activities.
• Leverage understanding of technical scopes of work for assigned work and their alignment with overall project objectives to deliver quality assignments.
• Demonstrate and apply technical competence, knowledge of codes and regulations, and professional standards of practice to assigned tasks.
• Collaborate closely with project teams, field teams, and health and safety personnel to address client goals and objectives, ensuring technical accuracy, quality, budget, schedule, and safety requirements are met.
• Assist the project management team throughout the project lifecycle, including cost estimating, scheduling, subcontracting, resource allocation, project planning, task delegation, and financial management.
• Prepare and/or review written communications and technical deliverables.
• Engage in internal and external communications with clients, subcontractors, and vendors.
• Coach, mentor, and direct junior staff to ensure high-quality execution of project tasks, including field activities and preparation of technical reports and deliverables, while facilitating knowledge transfer for team development.
• Plan and manage field investigation programs, including pre-design of field data and/or pilot testing data collection programs associated with environmental projects.
• Plan all work in accordance with company and client health and safety protocols.
• Demonstrate the company’s foundational safety behaviors.

Skills/Experience

• Minimum Skills and Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources, Environmental Science, or a related field.
• 6 - 8 years of related NR environmental consulting experience.
• Experience with Hawai‘i HRS Chapter 343 and/or Federal NEPA processes, including Federal Clean Water Act permitting and Endangered Species Act consultations.
• Experience with consultation and permitting with State and County agencies in Hawai‘i.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficient computer literacy skills, including the use of the Microsoft Office 365 Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Project, and SharePoint).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of GIS software and ability to read and extract information from construction plans and specifications.
• Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks pertinent to the work.
• Preferred Skills:
• Master’s degree in Natural Resources, Environmental Science or a related field.
• Some project management or task management experience.
• Wetland and stream delineation certifications.
• Environmental field and sampling experience.

About Haley & Aldrich

Haley & Aldrich is committed to solving our clients’ most meaningful challenges in the built and natural environments. Our team of 1,000+ engineers and scientists across the United States draws inspiration from one mission: to work closely with clients as they navigate change to create safer, more robust places to live and work. Since our founding in 1957, organizations across the public and private sectors have relied on us for technical excellence and empathetic leadership that achieve results and secure a thriving tomorrow. Find us at haleyaldrich.com and LinkedIn. Haley & Aldrich is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, age, disability, veteran, or any other legally protected status. We offer excellent career growth, a highly competitive total compensation plan, and a solid benefits package.