Principal Environmental Professional, Biologist

🕒 June 27

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $150k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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Onterris

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

🔬 Science

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Science • Energy

Onterris is a global environmental solutions company partnering with organizations to solve complex challenges at the intersection of environmental pressures, regulatory expectations and operational risk. The firm provides environmental consulting and technical services — including contaminated land remediation, permitting and compliance, emergency response, stack testing, leak detection, laboratory testing & analysis, water consulting/treatment and PFAS remediation — to asset- and resource-intensive sectors such as energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining and government. Onterris operates across the U. S. , Canada and Australia, reports ~3,500 employees, 100+ offices and serves thousands of clients, and positions itself as a systems-thinking, science-driven partner helping organizations translate environmental data into practical, regulatory-compliant solutions.

📋 Description

• Represent the firm with the highest level of professionalism when working with clients, staff, and teaming partners. • Act as a strategic leader, technical expert, and mentor—supporting project success, strengthening client relationships, and contributing to the firm’s long‑term growth. • Lead complex environmental compliance and permitting projects from early strategy through execution, ensuring that all deliverables are high quality, well organized, and ready for client delivery. • Lead multidisciplinary teams across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring scope, budget, and schedule alignment. • Manage consultants’ workloads and align staffing with firmwide needs. • Collaborate with biologists, archaeologists, GIS specialists, planners, regulatory specialists, engineers, and agency partners. • Participate in recruiting efforts, including job announcements, resume review, interviews, and candidate follow‑up. • Support staff retention by fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive work environment. • Lead performance reviews and provide timely, constructive feedback. • Ensure the operational effectiveness, productivity, and profitability of both your work and the team you lead. • Play a key role in securing $1M–$2M in new annual work through competitive pursuits, sole‑source opportunities, on‑call contracts, and strategic teaming arrangements. • Guide proposal managers on proposal structure, approach narratives, cover letters, scopes of work, and qualifications sections. • Ensure proposal schedules, budgets, and deliverables are accurate, compliant, and submitted on time. • Lead and prepare teams for proposal interviews. • Oversee QA/QC for high‑volume programs and ensure all work meets the firm’s quality standards. • Delegate tasks effectively, provide direction, and ensure work stays within project constraints. • Organize and facilitate project meetings that achieve defined objectives and move work forward.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, urban planning, environmental science, or related field (Master’s preferred). • 15+ years of relevant professional consulting experience (12+ with a Master’s), including public sector experience. • Proven consulting experience and success as a Project Manager overseeing completion of technical studies and documents within schedule and budget. • Experience serving as Principal in Charge serving as the senior client representative and owning responsibility for all consulting products and services. • Demonstrated success in proposal leadership, teaming for sole-source and competitive pursuits. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to oversee and provide quality assurance for complex technical documents, as well as make presentations, including interviews for competitive proposals. • Strong familiarity with California natural resources, CEQA compliance process, and State and local planning process and regulations. • Experience leading regulatory permitting process with State/Federal agencies such as USACE, USFWS, BLM, USFS, CDFW, and RWQCB. • Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams while also operating independently. • Willingness and ability to travel locally as needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus • Flexible work arrangements