Description
WSP is seeking a Senior Technical Manager, Geologist with RCRA and CERCLA experience for their Atlanta area offices. The successful candidate will manage and participate in environmental projects such as high-level field studies, technical report preparation, project management, and interaction with clients, regulators, contractors, and stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Develop technical reports describing field activities and presenting environmental data for projects regulated under CERCLA, RCRA, Solid Waste, Clear Water Act, or LUST.
- Participate in a wide range of environmental and engineering projects, from conceptual site model development to design and implementation of remediation and risk management strategies.
- Develop, lead, and implement environmental site investigations/assessments.
- Perform project management duties, such as develop proposals, manage budgets, monitor schedules, and coordinate equipment and materials.
- Provide guidance with data collection efforts for extracting, identifying, and compiling environmental data from soil, soil gas, groundwater, boring logs, and other matrices for investigations, and surveys.
- Prepare complex data and visualizations such as soil analyses, groundwater modeling, geologic cross-sections, and other illustrations.
- Analyze, evaluate, and interpret geologic, hydrogeologic, and chemical data obtained during field investigations, offering input with developing corrective action plans.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Geology, or closely related discipline. Master’s degrees and above are a plus.
- Essential professional licensure/certification (GA P.G. or ability to obtain license).
- Minimum of 10 years of environmental project experience, including task management, proposal writing, client contact, and regulatory interaction.
- Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements especially in the areas of CERCLA and RCRA.
- Experience with site investigations and remediation of environmental impacts to soil, surface water, and groundwater.
- Experience sampling soil and groundwater via drilling including direct-push, hollow-stem auger, and other similar drilling methods.
- Experience with soil logging based on the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS).
- Experience installing groundwater monitoring wells, remediation wells, and soil gas wells.
- Subcontractor management experience including procuring subcontractor bids, purchase requisitions and scheduling work.
- Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience writing technical reports and project proposals.
- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to reach conclusions from test results, data collation, and identifying the cost-effective responses to address contamination.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- 40-Hour OSHA HAZWOPER Health and Safety Training Certified and annual refresher (29 CFR 1910.120).