Senior Staff Scientist - Natural Resources Group

Terracon • Pittsburgh, PA • 13h ago

General Responsibilities:

Join a team where innovation meets impact - our Pittsburgh office, recently voted one of the best places to work in Pittsburgh, is seeking an individual ready to shape the future of environmental solutions. This dynamic role blends fieldwork with office-based collaboration, offering the chance to lead complex projects, mentor emerging talent, and contribute to meaningful outcomes both on-site and in the office. If you're passionate about making a difference, come explore with us!

Conduct assessments and surveys of wetlands and habitats. Identify, evaluate, and recommend risk andpermitting strategies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Prepare applicable permit applications, risk assessments, and technical documents including proposals, reports and regulatory agency correspondence. Lead tasks for the Natural Resources team on a multi-million dollar project to ensure that work is executed on time and in accordance with the client's requirements and within company policies, procedures, and standards. Projects may includeecological and natural resource field surveys, impact assessments,environmental permitting, and mitigation.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Experienced scientific professional responsible for conducting site testing and making recommendations for systems design on medium to large sized projects with a variety of complexity.

Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management.

Be responsible for maintaining quality standards on all projects.

Participates with senior scientists/engineers on large, more complex projects.

Performs assessments including wetland and listed species evaluations, stream assessments and benthic macroinvertebrate sampling and identification.

Performs site visits, field observations and field data collection or assignments.

Completes state and federal environmental permitting applications.

Completes periodic stream and wetland monitoring activities.

May attend client and regulatory agency meetings.

Evaluates complex field data and assembles in written reports.

Responsible for developing written proposals to clients for both small and large projects including quality control review of proposals written by others.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree inBiology orenvironmental science anda minimum of 5 years related experience or in lieu of a degree, 9 years of related experience minimum

Additional skills include project management and client care.

Will require overnight travel, which may be frequent during field season.

Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history.

Experience must include wetland delineation, agency reviews, plant identification, environmental permitting, and listed species surveys and permitting

Preferred:

USFWS permitted surveyor for listed plant/animal species a plus.

Master's Degree

Terracon is an EEO employer. We encourage qualified minority, female, veteran and disabled candidates to apply and be considered for open positions. We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, disability, age, or military status.

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