Senior Environmental Scientist
About the role
In the role of Senior Environmental Scientist, we'll count on you to:
- Lead and direct wetland and stream delineations, functional assessments, wildlife surveys, and habitat evaluations while managing task level scope, budgets, and schedules.
- Oversee preparation of natural resources permitting applications at federal, state and local level (e.g., Clean Water Act permitting Section 404/401 and WA State/local natural resources permitting).
- Lead development of critical areas reports, wetland and water delineation reports, mitigation and monitoring plans and documents to address project impacts.
- Contribute as an author and/or strategic advisor on natural resource documents such as NEPA/SEPA documents, and biological evaluations/assessments (BAs).
- Provide quality assurance / quality control (QA/QC) review of technical documents from disciplines noted above.
- Support project managers and other technical staff with client-agency communications.
- Develop proposals for biological-related tasks (preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets).
- Effectively collaborate with junior and mid-level environmental staff, planners, project engineers, GIS specialists, and clients to achieve regulatory compliance on a variety of projects.
- Perform other related duties as needed.
Responsibilities
Preferred Qualifications:
- Field experience with wetland and wildlife species and habitats in Washington State.
- Applied knowledge of ecological assessment, environmental impact analysis, environmental due diligence studies, natural/biological resources management.
- Strong organization skills and ability to work in a fast-paced work environment with changing deadlines and priorities.
- Demonstrable technical writing/editing ability, commitment to quality in both work processes and products and willingness to assume new roles are critical.
- A demonstrated commitment to safety and quality, and an attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture are essential.
- Candidates will need to travel for specific project assignments.
- Field data collection expertise in wildlife species, habitat, and wetlands and streams using GPS units.
- Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS) Experience with GPS units, GIS software and webmaps, to support data collection, mapping, and reporting.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Environment Science or closely related field.
- 10 years experience in complex environmental planning/compliance projects.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the NEPA process.
- Experience managing large, complex EIS documents for transportation, large facility, land management, or other infrastructure projects.
- Technical expertise in the design, implementation, interpretation and presentation of data for environmental studies and investigations in specialized discipline.
- Proficient with MS Office.
- Self-starter with excellent writing and communication skills.
- Strong conceptual, organizational, problem-solving and research abilities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Staff management experience beneficial.
Qualifications
A demonstrated commitment to safety and quality, and an attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.
Pay
The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.
Schedule
Full-time
Employee Status
Regular