Staff Environmental Scientist

Are you a recent environmental science graduate with a passion for earth sciences and the environment? If you want to get your hands dirty, if you want to be challenged and develop a satisfying professional career – then GeoEngineers wants you. We guide our clients and collaborate with jurisdictional agencies to find creative solutions along the way. Jumpstart your career today. Join our team of multi-disciplinary earth science professionals, and see what we can accomplish, together.

GeoEngineers, Inc., a leading environmental and engineering consulting services provider, is seeking a qualified, Staff Environmental Scientist for our Tacoma or Seattle, WA location to assist with a variety of technically challenging projects across multiple markets. GeoEngineers is an employee-owned company established in 1980 providing unparalleled client service and innovative science and engineering solutions. This is a great opportunity to learn and grow professionally and make a real impact while taking part in ground- breaking projects and working with leading edge technology.

As our Staff Environmental Scientist, you will be primarily responsible for performing assessments of critical areas and writing critical area reports. You will also be responsible for conducting habitat surveys, preparing permit applications, documenting your file review and field observations in field reports.

A critical part of each critical areas assessment is file review. Before beginning field work, you will be responsible for researching publically available maps and databases to record geology, soils, streams, wetlands, and other documented sensitive and priority habitats and priority/listed species at the project site or in the project vicinity.

The field component of our critical areas assessments generally consists of delineating wetlands, conducting stream Ordinary High Water Mark determinations and assessing the project site and project vicinity for the presence of priority habitats and fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas. In addition, site evaluations can include assessing sites for mitigation potential, inventorying habitat and habitat structures and recording wildlife observations, surveying marine shorelines and eelgrass habitat, and conducting forage fish spawning surveys on marine shorelines. You will often be asked to use GPS technology to document the location of critical features at the site.

Additional field duties may include assisting our River Team with stream/river geomorphic assessments and conducting basic stream habitat and morphology assessments.

Documenting your file review and field observations in field reports and writing critical area reports will require strong technical writing skills. A knowledge of ArcGIS will allow you to create maps documenting the location of critical features at the project site (not a required skill).

For more information on GeoEngineers, please visit our website at www.geoengineers.com. 

GeoEngineers is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values workplace diversity.