Senior Environmental Scientist

**What We're Looking For** At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. We are looking for a technically sound environmental scientist with strong leadership skills who is ready to be challenged and lead environmental planning, documentation and permitting tasks for major transportation clients. This position includes providing oversight and guidance to younger professionals and involves a mixture of office and field duties including but not limited to environmental and land use reviews for scoping and conceptual studies, wetland delineation, ecology/habitat surveys, mitigation site suitability evaluation, construction/post-construction monitoring, NEPA documentation, NJ EO215 documentation, and environmental permit preparation. **What You'll Do:** Under minimal direction, leads the collection and analyzing of data obtained for projects. Determines or develops best methodology and technical approaches for conducting analysis in field work; sets up test equipment as necessary to obtain scientific data. Examines and evaluates present and future potential environmental science effects relating to the planning, design, and construction of proposed projects. Serves as task lead or principal author in the preparation of reports, on environmental science effects of projects. Provides technical scientific support on environmental issues to project managers during the planning, design or construction of projects. Performs review of work to ensure the design or construction are in compliance with design criteria and scientific specifications and determines the need for additional investigations, studies, or alternate plans or designs if necessary. Prioritizes and participates the marketing and proposal preparation of potential opportunities or projects. Leads the preparation of applications and supporting documents for local, state, and federal environmental permits as well as other regulatory compliance laws and regulations. Organizes and participates in public meetings. Attends various meetings with clients, other engineering firms, and staff and may lead discussion on environmental science issues. Mentors junior staff, provides recruiting recommendations and performance feedback. Performs other duties as assigned. **What You'll Need:** Bachelor's degree in Geology, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Archeology, Anthropology, or related field and 8 years relevant experience, or Master's Degree in Geology, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Archeology, Anthropology, or related field and 7 years of relevant experience **What You'll Bring:** Provides technical oversight and guidance in the development of new ideas, data, and methodologies and how to apply it to techniques more broadly. Develops the standards of practice for the team by presenting new methods and approaches to scientific and environmental analysis for application to the project. Leads marketing and proposal efforts (i.e., may serve as pursuit champion or oversee production and review of proposals). Review monitoring protocols to ensure compliance with design criteria, scientific specifications, and regulatory approvals/permits. Serves as senior reviewer of technical reports in their entirety, providing guidance to less experienced staff. Serves as a recognized expert in established analytical methods with extensive experience in their application. **What We Prefer:** Experience with New Jersey Department of Transportation, New Jersey Turnpike Authority, New Jersey Transit, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and Amtrak projects. Experience with GPS/GIS mapping, data development & management, GIS/CADD integration and finished map production. **Additional Information** Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. \#AS #EnvironmentalPlanning . Locations: Cherry Hill, NJ (Woodbury), Newark, NJ, Parsippany, NJ (Fairfield), Princeton, NJ . . The approximate pay range for New Jersey is $105,590.66 - $180,168.68. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is $95,991.51 - $187,675.71. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . _NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:_ _HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees._ **Job Type:** Regular **Full/Part Time:** Full time **Job Category:** Planning Group **ReqID:** R-29110

Salary : $95,992 - $187,676