Environmental Stream Scientist

American Consolidated Natural Resources, Inc.; Eighty Four (PA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with 6% employer match

Medical, dental, vision & Rx benefits

Life/ADD Insurance; optional Term Life

Job summary

ACNR Coal Services Group seeks an Environmental Stream Scientist to collect and document surface waters for quality, quantity, and subsidence information. The role reports to the Stream Supervisor and is based at the Eighty Four, PA Livingston Portal.

The candidate will operate company vehicles, document results, and communicate issues. Responsibilities include stream delineations, benthic collection, data analysis, and supporting mitigation while maintaining safety and landowner respect.

Qualifications

• Experience leading field teams and coordinating field activities.
• Ability to interpret permit maps for field sampling locations.

Responsibilities

• Operate company vehicles to field sites and conduct daily inspections.
• Document field sampling and inspection results through logs and QA/QC forms.
• Communicate water quality and scheduling issues to supervisor.
• Conduct stream and wetland delineations and benthic collections.
• Perform longitudinal stream profiling and data analysis.
• Oversee mitigation activities and ensure landowner respect and safety.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Computer literacy

Troubleshooting equipment

Permit maps understanding

Field reporting

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Monitoring equipment

QA/QC documentation

Job description

Environmental Stream Scientist (Full Time)
Company: ACNR Coal Services Group
Location: Eighty Four, PA

This position is located in Eighty-Four, PA at the Livingston Portal and reports to the Stream Supervisor. The purpose of the Environmental Stream Scientist position is to properly collect and accurately document surface waters for quality, quantity and subsidence information. We are seeking hard working, motivated individuals. If you are interested in pursuing a career with great potential, we want you!

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Operate company vehicles from various job sites and conduct daily vehicle inspections
• Proper documentation of field sampling and inspection results through written log and QA/QC forms and checks
• Communicates water quality, sampling and scheduling problems to supervisor in oral and written forms
• Conduct stream delineations and wetland delineations
• Benthic collection
• Longitudinal stream profiling
• Data analysis
• Mitigation oversite
• Respects landowners property, never to harm or damage

Experience

• Excellent leadership, organizational, and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills; communicates with landowners, staff regarding issues with landowners and changes in monitoring area
• Basic computer skills

Job Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old
• High School Diploma or GED, preferred
• Reliable transportation
• Regular and punctual attendance
• Effective communication is required
• Must have knowledge to troubleshoot monitoring and sampling equipment
• Knowledgeable on use and aintenance of monitoring and sampling equipment
• Ability to understand and use permit maps for identification of sampling sites
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding the stream monitoring protocol
• Capable of making field decisions for sampling of points, location of sample, etc.
• Possessing skills to accurately complete field reporting and pictorial documentations
• Possessing initiative to follow through, overcome obstacles, and meet objectives
• Familiar with the monitoring area, and observant of any changes
• Maintains a satisfactory safety record
• Arrives at each site with necessary equipment to perform assigned tasks
• Must be able to work safely and effectively as part of a team or independently
• Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), required
• Must be able to successfully pass a post offer drug test and background check
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship

JOB SCHEDULE AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Must be able to work overtime, weekends and holidays as needed or as schedule requires (subject to applicants religious practices)
• Must be able to work rotating shifts (subject to the applicants religious practices)
• Ability/willingness to work any shift assigned
• Traverse uneven, rocky, wet, slippery, muddy terrain (frozen, icy surfaces in winter)
• Climb on hillsides, in wooded areas and on embankment side slopes
• Carry sampling and other monitoring equipment
• Use and carry mechanical brushing clearing device (chainsaws, weed eaters)
• Ability to lift floor-to-waist and waist-to-overhead
• Ability to push/pull as needed
• Standing, bending, step climbing, crawling and working overhead
• Ability to perform heavy labor and lift 50+ pounds as needed

• 401k with 6% employer match for eligible employees
• Employee Savings Plans for eligible employees
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision & Rx benefits
• Basic Life/ADD Insurance; optional Term Life, Accidental Life Insurance
• Additional Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Accident Insurance benefits for eligible employees
• Short and Long-Term Disability benefits for eligible employees
• Monthly & annual bonus plans for eligible employees
• Paid holidays & paid vacation