Senior Scientist

Responsibilities

• Prepare and coordinate the completion of various data and analytics reports.
• Analyze specific problems and issues to find the best solutions.
• Follow the organization's health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions to identify and mitigate environmental risks and risks to the well-being of self and others in the workplace.
• Identify patterns of risky behavior within the team and take appropriate action to resolve them, escalating serious issues as appropriate.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Manage relationships with small clients while also helping senior colleagues manage relationships with larger key clients and customers.
• Provide the design of exploration programs, including risk assessment and budgeting.
• Data compilation, reduction, interpretation, evaluation/comparison to environmental regulatory standards.
• Work within multi-disciplinary projects teams, distributing and sharing work to junior staff.
• Bid Solicitation/Request for Proposal/Tender Preparation: Gather information and resources, and draft and complete standard requests for bid solicitation requests for proposal (RFP) and requests for tender (RFT) on the requester side.
• Project Management: Work within an established project management plan to achieve specific goals.
• Community of Practice Management: Participate in a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting to begin to build own expertise.
• Work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives: For example, readily involves others to accomplish goals; stays in touch and shares information; discourages "us versus them" thinking; shows appreciation for others' ideas and input.
• Self-Development: Actively seeks new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. For example, demonstrates a strong commitment to development by regularly practicing and applying new knowledge and skills; is quick to share new learning with others. Creates a thorough, detailed development plan.

Qualifications

• 4-year Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Geology, Natural Resources, Environmental Science or equivalent.
• 6 to 8+ years of related experience, including 1 to 3+ years of project management experience in a client-facing role.
• Solid understanding of the Washington State Department of Ecology Model Toxics Control Act for site cleanups.
• Experience in the technical delivery of contaminated site investigations and remediation, and environmental case closure.
• Proven experience in coordinating and simultaneously managing multiple projects while maintaining a high degree of attention to detail in a consulting environment.
• Self-starter and willingness to work in a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be organized and have strong written and technical skills.
• Critical thinking and problem solving – ability to identify multiple solutions to a problem.
• Commitment to safety utilizing a behavior based safety (BBS) culture in all aspects of the job.
• OSHA 40 Hour HAZWOPER certification activities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.