Senior Environmental Project Engineer — Impact & Compliance

Terracon; Macon (GA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Terracon is seeking a seasoned environmental engineer to provide engineering and consulting services on a broad range of environmental projects. You will lead investigative work, perform analyses, design plans, review reports, and communicate findings to clients and project teams.

Key responsibilities include safety compliance, quality monitoring, solo and team project execution, mentoring junior staff, and developing proposals and regulatory documentation while coordinating field activities and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering or Civil Engineering required.
• 5-8 years of experience in environmental engineering projects.
• Master's degree in Environmental Engineering preferred.
• Valid driver's license may be required.

Responsibilities

• Follow safety rules and participate in pre-task planning.
• Provide and lead quality monitoring on projects and proposals.
• Develop written proposals and regulatory documentation for clients.
• Design systems and environmental protection plans; communicate complex issues to clients.
• Mentor junior staff and coordinate field sampling and data collection.

Skills

Environmental engineering

Project management

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering or Civil Engineering

Master's degree in Environmental Engineering (preferred)

Job description

General Responsibilities:

Provide engineering and consulting services for a broad array of environmental projects and clients. This may include performing and/or leading environmental site investigations, engineering analysis, calculations and recommendations, design and development of plans and specifications, observation and inspection, and the writing, preparation, and review of related reports for the services provided. Identify, evaluate and recommend risk and remediation strategies/designs to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations. Prepare applicable permit applications, risk assessments and technical documents including proposals, reports and regulatory agency correspondence. Design systems and environmental protection plans. Apply sound engineering principles and be able to communicate complex engineering issues and concepts to technical and non-technical clients and project teams. Services may include a variety of environmental-related work including Phase I/II environmental site assessments, ecological and natural resource field surveys, tank closure assessment

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management.

Provide and lead continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects. Monitor and promote quality standards and practices.

Provide consistent quality standards on project and proposal delivery.

Career level, fully competent environmental engineering professional.

Independently performs a variety projects or selected segments of larger projects.

Plans, schedules, conducts, and/or coordinates detailed phases of assigned project work.

Works closely with senior-level project managers to gain additional project management experience for more complex and larger projects.

May devise new approaches to problems encountered.

May serve as a team leader in medium projects and mentor junior level scientists/engineers.

Performs complex scientific analyses on projects of own discipline.

May attend on and off-site client meetings.

Implements technical requirements to complete client projects by directing and supervising field staff to sample, test and collect data and/or document site activities.

Responsible for developing written proposals to clients for both small and large projects including quality control review of proposals written by others.

Evaluates complex laboratory and field data and assembles in written reports.

Work under the supervision of a Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer.

Begin documented mentoring and application process for Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer certification.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering or related degree.

Minimum 5-8 years’ experience.

Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering preferred.

A valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history may be required.