Quality Assurance Environmental Scientist

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Experience with or supporting federal and/or state agencies, NGOs and grant projects.
• Experience creating methodologies, templates, guidelines, checklists, and other artifacts to establish repeatable processes for Quality Assurance
• Background in data review or analysis; working with laboratory data packages and understanding project and data quality aspects.
• An understanding of an EPA Data Quality Objective (DQO) and/or data quality processes.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex and highly technical information to a wide variety of project stakeholders.
• A general understanding or experience conducting or directing wetland and waterbody identification and delineation, wildlife habitat assessments, vegetation monitoring, invasive species surveys, and other ecological field surveys.
• The ability to solve problems using critical thinking and to complete tasks with consideration to their own and the team's safety.
• Capable of writing reports at the professional level and making oral presentations.
• Ability to lead agency and client coordination.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experienced at working well in a diverse, multi-disciplinary team atmosphere and independently as required.
• Must have the willingness to learn new skills.
• Conscientious, organized, and disciplined

Education and Experience

• The ideal candidate will have at minimum, a bachelor’s degree in environmental science, environmental studies, environmental engineering, planning, geography, natural resources, or related field with demonstrated experience with biological surveys.
• Technical writing and critical review experience.
• Minimum of 5 - 10 years of professional experience.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice. 

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