• Job Description

  Req#: 12971

  Environmental Scientist

  

  Natural Resources

  Jacksonville, FL

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  ID: 23963

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  Part-Time

  
  

  Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm of more than 2,400 professionals that provides a full range of multi-disciplined engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT, is currently ranked #50 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

  Position Summary: Responsible for conducting various environmental investigations, performing wetland impact analyses and permitting, and supporting ecological assessment and/or restoration projects, while applying knowledge of ecological principles, environmental practices, and federal, state, and local regulations.

  Essential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Characterizes and assesses various environmental resources including surface waters, wetlands, forests, streams, soils, plants, and wildlife
  • Collects resource data, samples during field investigations
  • Analyzes and manages data collected during field investigations
  • Determines the location, scale, scope, condition of, and impacts to, natural resources
  • Collects field location data using GPS; and creates maps and other graphic materials using GIS software
  • Collects water quality, vegetation, and sediment, samples
  • Collects hydraulic data in streams, rivers, estuaries, and coastal zones.
  • Documents methodologies and findings of research and field investigations
  • Writes natural environmental technical reports, field delineation reports, impact assessments, environmental inspection reports, and similar reports with supervisory input and oversight
  • Assists and/or manages (with supervisory oversight) various state, federal, and local regulatory permit application processes, such as those for Clean Water Act Section 404/401, and provides documentation as necessary for coordination of compliance with the U.S. Endangered Species Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, Magnuson–Stevens Act, etc.
  • Assists in the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals, and responses to RFPs

  Nonessential Functions and Responsibilities

  • Supports preparation of NEPA documents, including writing environmental setting and impact analyses sections
  • Performs other related duties as assigned

  
  

  Required Experience

  • Master’s degree in natural resource management, environmental or natural science, biology, marine science, ecology, or a related field
  • Proficiency in Microsoft 365
  • Proficiency in data analyses using R

  Preferred Experience

  • Experience with wetland/forest/stream delineation and assessment, wildlife surveys & protected species consultation, data collection and analysis, report writing and editing
  • Experience with natural resource evaluations and regulatory permitting for transportation projects
  • Advanced wetland delineation and/or hydric soils training
  • Understanding of hydrodynamics and water quality
  • 10 for more years of consulting, natural resource investigation, and/or regulatory experience
  • Proficiency with ArcMap, ArcGIS, ArcPro and/or other GIS programs
  • Ph.D. in soil science or related field
  • Experience in management of State of Florida and/or Water Management District contracts

  Working Conditions

  Work is performed within a general office environment approximately 50% of the time. Office work is generally sedentary in nature but may require occasional standing and walking. Office work is performed with adequate lighting and temperature, with no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc.

  Field work is required approximately 50% of the time and is conducted outdoors in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. Field work will require walking and carrying field equipment over typical outdoor terrain. Some lifting (up to 25 lbs) may be required as needed. Travel is required, and could occur throughout the southeast U.S., e.g., South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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