Scientist

Location: Remote (Northeast or mid-Atlantic region preferred)

Job Overview

This Scientist opportunity is for a flexible and self-motivated individual that is willing to learn and grow as part of a team while providing ecological expertise to projects within the Sediment and Risk Assessment (SRA) and Remediation (REM) service lines at EHS Support. As a Scientist, you will be joining a high-performance team of risk assessors, toxicologists, ecologists, scientists, and engineers that is focused on providing high-quality technical and strategic solutions to a variety of clients. Your primary responsibilities in the Scientist position will include assisting with development of ecological assessments, supporting and implementing field-based, environmental investigations, analyzing environmental data in support of investigation objectives, and engaging in technical writing to report findings for routine and complex scenarios under federal, state and international programs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Support development of ecological assessments under federal, state, and international regulatory programs (including CERCLA and RCRA programs)

• Develop site-specific conceptual exposure models to characterize constituent fate and transport dynamics and identify ecological receptors and complete exposure pathways.

• Obtaining, organizing, reviewing, and synthesizing environmental data in an organized and concise manner.

• Analyzing environmental data in support of investigation objectives and defined data quality objectives (DQOs) using Microsoft Excel, geographic information systems (GIS), or other programmatic software (e.g., R, Python).