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Career Level: P3
Primary Purpose:
Solves moderate to complex environmental problems and leads small projects. Integrates multiple data sources, recommends mitigations, and improves program performance with limited supervision.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintains, monitors and updates environmental programs to ensure compliance with current regulations and budget control.
- Guides lines of businesses on regulatory, scientific, technical, and/or other professional principles. Recommends and implements corrective/preventive procedures to improve compliance performance.
- Alerts site employee's and management to environmental issues to promote environmental awareness.
- Monitors project-specific metrics continuously and provides regular updates to clients and environmental leadership team.
- Monitors hazardous waste, reviews environmental compliance reports, creates, and maintains databases, tracks existing regulatory reporting requirements, and coordinates responses to compliance violations.
- Provides oversite for desk-based research, fieldwork, and/or laboratory work, including measurements, data interpretation, and computer modeling.
- Ensures technical reports and presentations explain research, findings, and recommendations to address, prevent, control, or restore larger-scale environmental challenges and complex problems.
- Frequent, independent driving to meetings, company locations and/or field locations while maintaining a focus on safety and compliance with traffic laws is essential to this position and cannot reasonably be accomplished via alternative transportation.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Typically requires a 4 year degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Typically requires 5 years of related experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Environmental Impact Assessment - The assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.
- Environmental Monitoring - The systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the environment, such as air quality, water quality, soil contamination, and biodiversity to understand and manage environmental impacts.
- Environmental Awareness - Understanding natural environment protection and the activities that can cause harm to the environment.
- Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.
- Data Analysis - Measuring and managing organization data, identifying methodological best practices and conducting statistical analyses.
- Project/Program Management - The process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time.
- Environmental Risk Management - Identifying, assessing, and managing risks and uncertainties associated with environmental factors. It includes analyzing potential hazards, evaluating their likelihood and potential consequences, implementing risk control measures, and monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of risk management strategies.
- Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Strategy - Identifies, reduces and removes potential hazards to a physical and working environment, develops best practices for accident prevention, accident response etc., and fosters a positive health, safety and wellness culture.
- Environmental Reporting - Communicating information about an organization's environmental performance and impacts.
- Scientific Research - Following systematic procedures in order to identify all aspects related to a scientific topic or problem, and ultimately solve that problem.
Licenses and Certifications:
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A valid CA Driver’s license or the ability to obtain a valid CA Driver’s License prior to the first day of employment.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.