Project Geoscientist

Title: Project Geoscientist

A Project Geoscientist is responsible for task leadership, execution, and control, ensuring adherence to project scope, budget, and schedules. They serve as the field team lead on specific tasks and/or lead routine to moderately complex scopes of work under the direction of the Project Manager (PM) or Principal and Senior Project staff. Project Geoscientists are accountable for handling specific technical aspects of projects appropriate to the Geoscience discipline as members of multidisciplinary teams. They will balance work on multiple projects of moderate size or portions of large projects. Project Geoscientists are capable of technical resources and are recognized for at least one area of expertise among the company's service offerings.

Expected Outcomes:
· Analyze, prepare, and present meaningful and precisely written scientific reports of field and laboratory result appropriate to the defined areas of investigation and based on collected data.
· Participate in peer review of work scopes, project implementation plans, operating procedures, training, schedules, budgets, technical calculations and interpretations, and deliverables.
· Ensure compliance with technical specifications and standard operating procedures defined in the project scope of work.
· Lead and be responsible for complex field and office assignments, including field investigations and sampling programs.
· Ability to perform geology-related tasks in the field including monitoring well installation, soil sampling, soil and rock descriptions, and groundwater sampling.
· Work independently with periodic guidance.
· Determine basic methods and procedures on core tasks and ability to determine methods and procedures on new assignments within core competencies.
· Cooperate with the implementation of all project quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) audits and review and assist in implementing corrective actions as appropriate.
· Clearly document project activities and is involved in assigning tasks in accordance with project plans.
· Maintain frequent communication with the team members, PM, and client as required, to ensure effective understanding of project deliverables, concerns, and progress.
· Maintain auditable and orderly files, notebooks, and correspondence on all project aspects.
· Monitor staff performance and provide input to Organizational Managers for staff promotions, transfers, and performance appraisals.
· Provide guidance and coaching to junior members, as needed.
· Identify new technologies and techniques and evaluate their applicability and potential benefits for the company.
· Coordinate field operations and data collection, with respect to schedule and field budget.
· Serve as a technical lead in their area of specialty, solving technical problems with appropriate assistance from senior staff.
· Work with team on problems of diverse scopes and complexity which require sound judgment when selecting methods, analyzing data, and determining methods for reaching solutions.
· Ability to lead moderate to complex scopes of work and field tasks.
· Support projects from beginning to end, readily taking on tasks, as necessary, to ensure client satisfaction.
· Lead project Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Program compliance for medium- to high-risk projects. Ability to provide technical input regarding safety. Promote, understand, and carry out the principles of safety on project tasks.
· Will directly engage EHS department to obtain support and direction as required or when EHS Planning Documents are not in alignment with scope of work (SOW). Manage field staff regarding project /site specific EHS requirements and ensure alignment with EHS Program.

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Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
· Bachelor’s Degree in Geology, Geoscience, or a related field and have at least 6 years of related experience.
· Experience must include 3 years in planning, performing, and leading of field activities and assisting in scoping projects.
· Experience must include overseeing the drilling of soil and rock borings and oversight of the installation of monitoring wells, including the logging of lithologic and stratigraphic information.
· Experience with the use of electronic data collection, including GPS and GIS, a plus.
· Membership in professional organization suited to specific practice is highly encouraged.
Demonstrated ability to analyze, interpret, and present data and meet deadlines outlined by project leadership.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.