Senior Environmental Scientist

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and prepare documentation, including environmental investigation reports in accordance with various federal, state, regional, and local regulatory requirements.
• Client-facing collaborative environmental scientist overseeing a multi-disciplinary team for a diverse range of project types.
• Conduct research and coordinate with public and private clients, internal and external partners, technical subconsultants, and regulatory/resource agencies.
• Contribute to proposal pursuits with new and existing clients throughout Arizona and US West.
• Manage and prepare proposals for new task orders under existing on-call contracts, including the development of fee proposals.
• Provide technical expertise regarding environmental investigations and remedial actions.
• Drive project schedules and oversee budgets.
• Delegate and oversee billable work performed by junior staff on projects, mentoring and training others as needed.

Additional Responsibilities

• Project Management: Deliver small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.
• Environmental Impact Assessment: Coordinate and deliver environmental impact assessment projects, maintaining accuracy and adherence to project timelines.
• Insights and Reporting: Prepare and coordinate the completion of various data and analytics reports.
• Request for Bid Solicitation/Proposal/Tender Response: Gather information and resources, draft and complete proposals, and fulfill all process requirements (in terms of deadlines, documentation, etc.) in response to bid solicitations, request for proposal, and request for tender to create the best chance of being awarded the contract.
• Solutions Analysis: Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions. Solutions could be technical or professional in nature.
• Community of Practice Management: Participate in and contribute to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting to build own capability and develop innovative practice among colleagues.
• Data Collection and Analysis: Conduct research using primary data sources, and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.
• Environmental Risk Management: Oversee the environmental risk management processes, ensuring the organization's operations have minimal detrimental impact on the environment.
• Health, Safety, and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health, safety, and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organization's HSE policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions.

Qualifications

• Already “lives” the GHD core values of Respect, Teamwork, Integrity, and Safety.
• Experience managing project teams, projects, and/or supervising staff.
• Self-motivated, self-starter, ability to initiate a task and see it through to successful completion.
• High attention to detail.