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Position: Environmental Technician 2
The Environmental Technician 2 (ET2) position is an entry-level position within the cleanWATER team. This position is designed to support cleanWATER goals of providing environmental consulting and testing services to our clients who need these invaluable services to ensure compliance which meets regulatory standards. This entry-level position uses professional concepts to complete assignments that are initially routine in nature, requiring limited judgment and decision making. Employees at this level are expected to acquire the skills and knowledge to perform more advanced work following an agreed upon time in position, through defined training and development planning.
Key Project Activities:

• Conduct routine indoor and outdoor field inspections
• Conduct routine indoor and outdoor field sampling
  • Monitoring well sampling, drinking water sampling, wastewater sampling, and wet weather sampling
• Fixture flushing
• Generate routine reports using report templates
• Conduct chemical inventories
• Maintain and calibrate equipment under equipment standards or other written requirements.
• Other projects as assigned

Responsibilities:

• Conduct routine indoor and outdoor field inspections and sampling as assigned.
• Document field inspection ensuring thorough and accurate documentation using established field forms and note templates.
• Meet deadlines established by the team and Client and email reports to clients in a timely manner.
• Ensure timely delivery of field samples to the analytical laboratory.
• Generate routine reports using report templates as assigned.
• Maintain and calibrate equipment under equipment standards or other written requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a minimum of 18 years old.
• Must hold a valid driver's license and safe driving record.
• Must have a Bachelor's degree in science or engineer-related discipline, or within 1 semester of degree completion. - or - High School diploma, GED, or equivalent with 1+ years of full-time / internship work experience in the environmental or related field.
• Familiarity with environmental sampling and sample handling techniques and requirements.
• Basic understanding and experience with computers and common software, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams) and Adobe Acrobat or similar PDF programs.
• Availability and willingness to modify personal schedules will be required for emergency work in the evenings and weekends as needed by the client or regulatory requirements.
• Able to interpret and apply written Standard Operating Procedures to perform assigned work activities.
• Ability to work effectively, both independently and in a team environment, in an atmosphere of multiple projects, shifting priorities, and deadline pressures.
• Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
• Possess physical strength, stamina, and dexterity for repeatedly lifting and moving, stooping, bending, climbing with varying terrain.
• Must be able to provide writing that is clear, well organized, and free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Preferred Qualifications (Optional):

• Industrial Stormwater Operator Certification.
• Work experience in an environmental consulting firm.
• Experience with hand auger.
• Experience with AutoCAD.

Work Location and Work Hours:

• Field-based 50-75%
• Office-based 25-50%

COVID-19 Response:
Arch Environmental Group, Inc. has specific policies, procedures, and work practices to help continue to minimize the spread of COVID-19. To address safety issues presented by the spread of coronavirus, the Company developed a COVID-19 Response Plan to ensure that all employees are protected to the extent possible from exposure to COVID-19. The plan is part of a newly developed Infectious Disease Response & Preparedness Plan, which lays out some general policies and procedures implemented for any potential exposures to infectious diseases. Effective March 1, 2024, Arch Environmental Group, Inc. will strongly encourage all team members to receive regular vaccinations for COVID-19, as well as influenza and RSV. Additionally, the company reserves the right to request that team members receive vaccinations where required by clients currently or in the future.
Compensation: $19.27 - $22.00 per hour
AEG SUMMARY
In 1993 a University of Michigan student interned for a young Western Michigan University environmental professional in a new and quickly growing industry. In a few short years, Jeff Heydanek developed a business plan and convinced Scott Staber that venturing out on their own was the right thing to do. With Jeff's youthful energy and business prowess combined with Scott's affinity to sales and a few contacts, the plan went into action on October 6, 1995. In the few decades since beginning in a 60 sf basement office in Canton, Michigan, J. Scott Environmental (Jeff & Scott) has grown into a multi-million dollar environmental consulting, testing and technical company, servicing all of Michigan and the Midwest. Arch Environmental Group (AEG) is uniquely structured to handle a wide variety of your environmental needs and concerns - in fact, we have diversified over these years in a manner to "bridge your environmental needs". To this day we work hard to be large enough to handle all of your environmental concerns, yet not lose the small business personal care you have come to expect from us. The following summary details three critical business components of AEG: services offered, professional staffing and market sector.
Services Offered
AEG began strictly as an asbestos, lead and IAQ/biological consulting firm. Over time we have diversified to handle all aspects of your environmental needs. In order to compete and continually grow in this highly competitive marketplace, AEG has evolved into a unique technical firm offering a full spectrum of environmental services. These additional services are value added services that can be conducted directly by AEG and typically allow for significant cost savings when compared to other consulting firms providing similar, but typically subcontracted, work.
Professional Staffing
AEG has one of the largest and most experienced environmental professional staffs in the State of Michigan. With a combined 50+ years of experience, the Owners of AEG are pleased to have a staff that includes Asbestos Inspectors, Asbestos Management Planners, Asbestos Project Designers, NIOSH 582 fiber counters, lead Inspectors, Lead Risk Assessors, Certified Microbial Consultants, Certified Hazardous Materials Managers, 40-hour HAZWOPER technicians, Certified Industrial Stormwater Operators, Certified Construction Site Stormwater Operators, UST Class A & B Operators, DOT Fleet Compliance trained personnel, DOT HM-126 Hazardous Materials trained personnel, DOT Security trained personnel, CDL drivers (with Hazardous Waste Endorsements). OSHA trained personnel including Confined Space, Bloodborne Pathogen, Lock-out/Tag-out, Electrical Safety, SCBA Airline Equipment and Competent Person.
Market Sector
AEG is the largest Michigan educational environmental consulting firm, working in over 100 public school districts and universities/colleges - numbering hundreds of buildings. Since our expansion in 2000, AEG has acquired some anchor industrial and commercial clients such as Guardian Industries, Wolverine Power Cooperative, St. Joseph Mercy Health System and Henry Ford Health Systems. Our goal is to continue to grow through diversification of both services offered and clientele type. AEG is excited about the opportunity to work on this project and provide you with the outstanding service currently being utilized by many other educational, medical, governmental, commercial and industrial institutions around the State of Michigan and throughout the Midwest.