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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 Field Geologist to join the Environmental Team in Midland or Odessa, TX. As a Field Geologist, you will collaborate with a dynamic and growing team to support projects through all phases of the site evaluation and remediation life cycle. This role is ideal for an ambitious individual seeking career growth in environmental consulting and the environmental remediation market.
The Field Geologist will have the opportunity to develop and refine a wide range of essential skills that serve as the foundation for a successful career in the environmental industry. In this full-time position, you will contribute to environmental investigation, remediation, and permitting projects, working across multiple projects and supporting various project managers. Your responsibilities will primarily include fieldwork with occasional office-based tasks, encompassing a diverse range of activities related to environmental investigation and remediation.
This role will sit within the larger Global Resilience Business Area. 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 climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role accountabilities:
As a Field Geologist, you will play a key role as part of a collaborative team, contributing to the planning, coordination, and execution of various project environmental field assessment scopes. Your daily/weekly activities will include a mix of field-based tasks, consisting of soil boring, monitoring well installation, soil and groundwater sampling, public water system inspections, and remediation system O&M visits. Local travel to work sites is expected and occasional overnight travel will be required.
Successful candidates for this position will have prior experience drilling and logging the lithology of a well/boring and the execution of environmental assessment activities such as soil and groundwater monitoring. . Key aspects of the Field Geologist role include adherence to health and safety requirements, overseeing execution and completion of field work, strong documentation/fieldnote skills, communication skills both verbal and written, meeting schedules and budget objectives. Preferred qualifications may include experience working around heavy equipment, troubleshooting system or equipment issues, and knowledge of local and federal environmental regulations.
Your typical responsibilities will include:

• Field Work: Installation of groundwater monitoring wells or soil borings, well abandonment, groundwater monitoring, and other field-based tasks.
• Health and Safety Stewardship: Ensuring adherence to safety protocols and procedures.
• Client and Stakeholder Interaction: Communicating effectively with clients, internal project teams, and stakeholders.
• Data Collection to support the development of conceptual site models, delineating the nature and extent of contamination, and contributing to the design, modification, or optimization of site remedies.
• Oversite of subcontractors: Ensure that Arcadis and client expectations for health and safety, task objectives, and work schedule are being met. Point of contact with project management to ensure full understanding of the field event progress.

This role offers a diverse mix of responsibilities, providing opportunities to contribute meaningfully to a variety of environmental projects.
Qualifications & Experience:

• 2 years of experience in the environmental industry
• Bachelor's Degree in Geology preferred
• Previous experience with environmental drilling, sampling, field documentation and data collection
• Strong focus on health and safety, with the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with soil and groundwater sampling methods and equipment, four and five gas meters, and Texas and New Mexico State environmental regulations
• 40-hour HAZWOPER certification (with 8-hour annual refresher, if applicable)

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 your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. 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 $64,800 - $97,200. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
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