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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Staff Environmental Scientist/Engineer to join our Resilience Environment team in Raleigh/Cary, North Carolina.  

As a member of our Resilience Environmental team, you'll play a key role in improving the quality of life. Drawing on your background in environmental science and engineering, you'll contribute to projects focused on soil, water, and air quality, as well as monitoring and remediation efforts. You'll also have the opportunity to work on pollution mitigation and control, materials management, and the protection of species and ecosystems predominantly in the Carolinas and southeast United States. 

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. We are committed to sharing expertise and institutional knowledge across diverse practice areas with our junior staff, fostering their development into the next generation of environmental leaders. We advance our understanding of emerging contaminants and are engaged in some of the most challenging projects in our industry.

Role accountabilities:

To be successful in this role, you should possess strong written and oral communication skills, be self-motivated, and exhibit independent thinking. You should be able to work effectively and efficiently in a team setting as well as independently and remotely. Successful candidates will demonstrate their ability to be adaptable, creative problem solvers who can work collaboratively as a team member. If you notice something unusual or that may pose a risk to health and safety, speak up. Your awareness and proactive communication are essential to ensuring a safe and enduring environment for everyone.

Fieldwork requirements for this position typically ranges between 20-50%. While the majority of your work will be local to the Carolinas, there are opportunities to travel beyond the region to work on projects in other parts of the country. However, you can generally expect to be home on weekends. This position encompasses both office work (task management, data analysis, report preparation, scope preparation, and client communications) as well as field work. Estimated travel is expected to reduce overtime as your role evolves.

Your core duties will include:

• Field preparation, equipment procurement, and analytical laboratory sampling coordination. 
• Field activities may include conducting site visits, site characterization activities included, but not limited to, performing drilling oversight for soil sampling and/or groundwater well installation, groundwater sampling, and/or excavation oversight.  Field activities may include oversight of remedial system installation activities.
• Provide emergency response support (environmental sample planning and collection, rail client and state/federal regulator correspondence, onsite contractor oversight) for train derailments/HAZMAT spills, with the potential to travel throughout the US.
• Writing and preparing technical reports, work plans, letters, and memoranda.
• Office work will include task coordination, data analysis, proposal development and costing, health & safety plan preparation, report writing, regulatory and historical file review, project strategy development, schedule and budget management, regulatory and stakeholder correspondence, and other project documentation.
• You will assist project managers with preparing subcontracts and overseeing subcontractors, including development of subcontractor scopes of work and authorizations, development of agreements with subcontractors and service providers, and management of project budgets and timelines to support delivery of the planned scope within the established budget.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of geology/environmental science/engineering
• 4 or more years' relevant experience in environmental consulting

Preferred:

• May hold or be working towards advanced degree (M. Eng., MS, MBA, etc.),
• OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER training preferred
• subcontractor oversight. 

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make an impact on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Join Arcadis. Together, we can create a legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $76,000 - $114,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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