Principal Geologist - Environmental Assessment and Remediation

About the role

The successful candidate will lead and grow Geosyntec's Environmental Assessment and Remediation practice in California, with a focus on Fresno, the Central Valley, and Northern California. This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an accomplished environmental consultant with strong technical expertise, established client relationships, and a proven ability to develop, sell, manage, and deliver complex environmental investigation and remediation programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead business development strategy for the Fresno office, Central Valley market, and broader California environmental assessment and remediation practice, including identifying opportunities, developing client relationships, expanding existing accounts, and leading proposal efforts.
• Serve as a Client Manager, Account Lead, or senior technical advisor for one or more strategic clients.
• Provide senior technical leadership for environmental investigation, remediation, compliance, restoration, and long-term monitoring projects.
• Lead complex, multidisciplinary projects from planning through delivery, including scope development, technical strategy, investigation design, feasibility evaluation, remedial design, permitting, construction support, regulatory negotiation, quality review, risk management, and client engagement.
• Manage project performance, including scope, budgets, resources, schedules, quality standards, profitability, contracts, subcontractors, and multidisciplinary team coordination.
• Set practice vision, support recruiting and team development, mentor staff, and help drive strategic growth for the Fresno office and Northern California operations.
• Collaborate with professionals from multiple disciplines and offices to provide integrated, practical, and future-ready solutions for clients.
• Represent Geosyntec in meetings, presentations, and negotiations with clients, regulators, teaming partners, contractors, industry groups, and other stakeholders.
• Interpret and summarize technical data and regulatory requirements to support sound scientific conclusions and defensible client recommendations.
• Promote and model a strong health and safety culture, which is fundamental to our operations.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of directly relevant environmental consulting experience, including significant client development and project management responsibilities; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Consulting experience with investigation and remediation of contaminated soil, groundwater, soil vapor, sediment, and vapor intrusion issues.
• Experience with contaminants including petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, chlorinated solvents, PFAS, PCBs, and/or emerging contaminants.
• Strong understanding of California environmental regulatory programs, including DTSC, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, CERCLA, RCRA, CUPA programs, and other CalEPA or local agency requirements.
• Demonstrated success developing client relationships, leading business development efforts, winning work, and growing consulting services.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring early-, mid-, and senior-level professionals.
• Strong project, program, and financial management experience, including scope, budgets, resources, schedules, profitability, risk, quality, and client satisfaction.
• Experience preparing and supervising technical reports, proposals, work scopes, pricing, budgets, and project performance metrics.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence across offices, practices, and disciplines, including with senior leadership, clients, regulators, teaming partners, and staff without direct reporting relationships.
• Strong oral and written communication, technical writing, presentation, negotiation, and client engagement skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced consulting environment, manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and travel to client facilities or project sites, as needed.
• Experience with remedial design, remedy construction, construction oversight, and operation and maintenance of environmental remedies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in geology, hydrogeology, earth sciences, environmental science, or a closely related science field.
• Advanced degree in geology, hydrogeology, environmental science, or a related discipline (preferred).
• California Professional Geologist (P.G.) license (required).