# Early Career Geologist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: El Paso, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: part-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking an on-call/part-time Early Career Geologist to join our El Paso, TX SIR team.

This role is ideal for a geoscience professional who will thrive in a field-based work environment and is eager to build a career supporting environmental investigation and remediation projects.

**Field Investigation (Primary Focus)**

- Perform and support environmental fieldwork, including:

- Soil, groundwater, sediment, and soil vapor sampling

- Monitoring well installation oversight and development

- Aquifer testing support (e.g., slug tests, pumping tests)

- Detailed soil and lithologic logging

- Maintain accurate and defensible field documentation, including logs, chain-of-custody forms, and photo records.

- Employ contemporary analytical techniques to examine both organic and inorganic compounds, determining their constituent components.

- Coordinate with subcontractors (drillers, surveyors, laboratories) and adhere to site-specific Health & Safety Plans (HASP).

- Participate in regular field assignments, requiring travel and work outdoors in variable Texas/New Mexico conditions.

**Data Management & Reporting**

- Compile and manage field and laboratory data in accordance with WSP standards.

- Support preparation of technical deliverables, including:

- Site investigation reports

- Figures, tables, and maps

- Boring logs and monitoring well construction documentation

- Assist in data interpretation under direction of senior staff.

- Collaborate with geologists, engineers, and project managers to meet project quality and schedule objectives.

- Assist with field preparation activities including equipment setup, calibration, and logistics planning.

**Team & Project Support**

- Collaborate with geologists, engineers, and project managers to meet project quality and schedule objectives.

- Assist with field preparation activities including equipment setup, calibration, and logistics planning.

**Who You Are**

**Required Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in Geology or a closely related field.

- Strong interest in field-based environmental consulting work.

- Ability and willingness to perform physically demanding field tasks (lifting equipment, extended walking/standing, outdoor work).

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Proficient self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.

- Ability to work independently under general supervision, as well as part of a team to meet business objectives.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).

- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel to project sites.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Degree (MS) in Geology or a related field highly preferred

- Field camp completion or equivalent hands-on field training

- Internship or prior experience in:

- Environmental consulting

- Drilling oversight and soil/rock logging

- Remediation system monitoring and sampling

- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g., TCEQ, EPA) is a plus.

- Basic experience with GIS or data visualization tools is a plus.

## Skills

### Required
- Geology
- Environmental consulting
- Microsoft Office
- Valid driver's license

### Nice to have
- GIS
- Data visualization tools
- Regulatory frameworks (TCEQ, EPA)
- Drilling oversight and soil/rock logging
- Remediation system monitoring and sampling

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