Environmental Engineer
New Mexico
Sundance Consultants – Sundance Consultants /
Full-time /
Remote
Sundance Consultants, a part of True Environmental and its partner firms, have united their strengths to establish the nation's premier environmental and engineering services consulting firm. This powerhouse organization offers an extensive range of services aimed at revolutionizing the built environment and preserving the natural one. Its diverse expertise encompasses environmental remediation, urban planning, engineering iconic coastal and marine structures, developing sustainable energy sources, and pioneering resource extraction methods. With a workforce of over 450 dedicated professionals, including environmental experts, engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, surveyors, and construction management professionals, this dynamic organization operates in more than 20 offices across the U.S. Explore further at Sundance-inc.com and True-Environmental.com to discover the full scope of our capabilities.
We are looking for an Engineer who can support and manage project and field operations across a number of interdisciplinary projects. The position will support field activities such as soil and groundwater sampling, monitoring well installation and other project-specific tasks as needed. The hours of operation will fall between 7:00 am to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday, with occasional weekend work.
This Engineer position requires promoting our strong culture of safety, quality, leadership, teamwork, and environmental responsibility. Tasks will include field work, data collection, analysis, and report preparation. Excellent written and verbal communications skills, attention to detail, and the ability to learn technical competencies for a variety of potential project types.
This position will be in New Mexico and candidates in New Mexico and the surrounding area will be considered.
What you'll do
- Provide site coordination, investigation, assessment, and remediation activities across a number of interdisciplinary fields, including groundwater and soil media.
- Lead/oversee team(s) of 3-4 individuals with environmental field work using standard industry methods.
- Perform thorough documentation of field activities including, daily safety tailgates, daily field logs, sample collection forms, photographic documentation, GPS locations, sample tracking and management, chain of custodies, quality assurance forms, and quality control review of field documentation.
- Operation and maintenance of field equipment as needed, including delegation to field technicians, including items such as organic vapor detectors, GPS units, soil and water quality parameter instrumentation, stream flow meters, compass, metal detectors, binoculars, digital camera, etc.
- Manage small projects and tasks.
- Write major portions of subcontractor scopes of work, technical memorandums, decision documents and technical reports, and project planning documents such as APPs, SSHPs, Work Plans, and UFP-QAPPs, remedial action work plans.
- Oversee environmental sampling, drilling operations, including soil borings, monitoring well installation, monitoring well development, and monitoring well abandonment.
- Support environmental compliance activities (spill response plans, investigation derived waste permitting and management, compliance audits, etc.).
Minimum Qulaifications
- Bachelor's Degree in engineering or another relevant field.
- 5 to 10 years of related experience with geologic/hydrogeologic and/or environmental investigation/remediation data collection, documentation, and reporting.
- 5 to 10 years of experience working with federal clients (DOD, EPA, DOI, etc.) and state regulatory agencies on CERCLA/RCRA/State-Lead projects.
- Current OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER Certification with current 8-hour
- Registered Professional, PE or equivalent.
Preferred Qualications
- Advanced degree.
- Excellent technical writing.
- Positive, can-do approach to assignments and tasks.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Superior organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated experience completing environmental permitting projects.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
