Job Description

General Responsibilities:

Are you an exceptional Senior Environmental Site Investigation/Remediation (SI/REM) Professional looking for an opportunity to grow and expand your career and lead the growth and expansion of our Tampa Site Investigation and Remediation Team? Do you want to work for a well-established, nationwide company with an excellent reputation that takes care of its employee-owners? Are you seeking a company that has tremendous resources and provides training and opportunities? Come, “Explore with us” and start your journey at Terracon!

Terracon’s Tampa office is seeking a Senior Environmental SI/REM Engineer or Geologist to join our Team!

Managerial Responsibilities:

You will work closely with the Tampa Environmental Department Manager to ensure work is performed on time, on budget, and meets our client’s expectations. You will collaborate with others throughout the region to prepare winning proposals for projects involving standard site investigation, high-resolution site characterization, and remediation opportunities. You will coach and mentor SI/REM staff on quality data generation and reporting and drive consistent excellence. You will also get the opportunity to work with the offices and regional leadership team to grow a team, develop an Operations Plan and a business development strategy for your group to grow the practice.

Technical Responsibilities:

As a Senior Environmental SI/REM Professional, you will lead teams of multi-disciplined environmental professionals in designing and implementing site characterization and remediation approaches. Projects may include soil removal actions, remedial injections, soil vapor assessments, and vapor intrusion mitigation system designs, as well as groundwater remediation systems, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), Instrumentation and Controls (I&C), permitting, and operations & maintenance (O&M) functions. Such projects may include:

• Review of advanced characterization data from site investigations.
• Supporting Remedial Investigations (RI) and Feasibility Studies (FS).
• Prepare engineering evaluations/cost analyses (EECAs), consistent with the Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liabilities Act (CERCLA) and similar tasks as outlined under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

The successful candidate will also support multi-disciplinary teams in the scoping and preparation of Site Characterization Reports (SCRs), development of Risk-Based Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), Remedial Action Plans (RAPs), Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP) applications, monitoring remedial systems performance and overseeing the preparation of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) reports, and Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs).

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepares expenditure forecasts, manages scope, schedule, and budget for complex projects, monitors activities, and allocates resources to ensure client objectives are met.
• Partners with other departments and offices to secure specialized resources for projects.
• Conducts project meetings and prepares reports to communicate the status of a project.
• Coordinates financial management of business intelligence, invoicing, and collections with accounting.
• Develops an understanding, and is aware of, project-related risks and associated risk mitigation. Knows Company risk management policies.
• Career level, fully competent professional responsible for the planning, designing, scheduling, implementing, and managing technical scopes of work related to advanced site characterization projects using UVOST, LIF, MMP, and other advanced site characterization methods.
• Leads development of proposals and scopes of work for complex site investigations to assess soil, groundwater, soil vapor, and indoor air sampling for sites impacted by organic and inorganic contaminants. Uses innovative investigative techniques to complete work.
• Designs, documents, and supervises the installation of remediation systems (soil, groundwater, and vapor) and O&M of remediation systems and provides supervision and technical support to team implementing work.
• Applies standard practices and techniques in specific situations, adjusts and correlates data, recognizes discrepancies in results, and follows operations through a series of related detailed steps or processes.
• Assists in continuous quality monitoring and improvement for projects and Terracon policies and procedures used for conducting site investigations, remedial design and implementation fieldwork, and preparation of associated deliverables.
• Will be expected to be proficient in client management, client development, and driving environmental sector growth locally and nationally.
• Responsible for implementing safety rules, guidelines, and standards for all projects and participating in pre-task planning meetings; and
• Participate in developing marketing strategies and presenting qualifications to clients on a project and/or client basis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (environmental, civil, or chemical), Geology, or applicable. Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience in environmental field investigations, remedial design, and implementation with an environmental, engineering, or remedial construction focus
• Professional Engineer or Professional Geologist and /professional registration, or ability to obtain registration within six months of employment required.
• Working knowledge of state regulations and environmental processes in Florida and surrounding states
• Valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record
• High level of verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated high level of technical writing ability. Must provide authored technical documents upon request.
• Strong organizational skills
• Completed OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER training