Principal Technical Consultant, Paleontology

🔥 23 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado, Montana, +2 more states – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦬 Montana – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

💵 $110k - $161k / year

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ERM

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

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Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

ERM is a global leader in sustainability consulting, dedicated to helping businesses tackle their most pressing sustainability challenges. With expertise across various sectors, including chemical, financial services, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy, ERM provides solutions tailored to ensure compliance with ESG regulations, promote resource efficiency, and support decarbonization efforts. Their services encompass areas like carbon markets, clean energy, health and safety, and environmental management, enabling clients to integrate sustainability into their core operations and strategies.

📋 Description

• Serve as Permit Administrator and/or Principal Investigator on BLM Paleontological Resources Use Permits and applicable state permits • Provide technical-level quality assurance and quality control of deliverables prepared by qualified paleontologists and resource specialists • Oversee teams conducting desktop studies and field investigations, including reconnaissance and pedestrian surveys, fossil salvage and collection, and construction monitoring • Lead, manage, mentor, and develop mid-level and junior paleontologists and cultural resources specialists • Participate in hiring, mentorship, engagement initiatives, and coordination across the cultural and paleontological resources practice • Collaborate with Paleontology Principal Investigators, Regional Leads, the Consulting Director for Archaeology, Area Managers, and Managing Partners • Serve as primary author, senior reviewer, or task manager for paleontological resource studies supporting large-scale capital projects • Ensure work is completed within scope, budget, schedule, and quality expectations • Manage projects ranging from multi-state linear infrastructure developments to site-specific investigations • Strengthen client relationships and develop new client partnerships • Identify opportunities to cross-sell cultural and paleontological resources services • Collaborate with environmental planners, archaeologists, biologists, wetland specialists, GIS specialists, and engineers • Represent ERM in communications and meetings with clients, regulatory agencies, stakeholders, teaming partners, and subcontractors • Identify subcontractor needs and manage subcontractor quality, schedules, and deliverables

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate degree in Paleontology, Geology, Biology, Anthropology, or a closely related field of study • 6-8 years of related mitigation and environmental due diligence experience, or equivalent experience • Ability to be listed as Principal Investigator on BLM Paleontological Resources Use Permits, state permits, and similar authorizations within the Great Basin and/or Rocky Mountain subregions • Demonstrated field experience and principal-level project oversight within the Great Basin or Rocky Mountain subregions, including inventory, survey, salvage, and data recovery efforts • Experience serving as primary author and/or third-party reviewer of agency-reviewed technical reports, including paleontological resource reports, mitigation plans, and environmental review documents • Experience working directly with regulatory agency personnel while representing clients • Ability to work effectively within teams of cultural heritage specialists and multidisciplinary technical professionals • Ability and willingness to travel occasionally to project sites throughout Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and other locations • Previous experience using mapping and field technologies, including GPS equipment, ArcGIS Field Maps, Survey123, and related applications • Valid driver's license and/or ability to operate a company vehicle • Experience serving as Field Director or Principal Investigator on cultural resources federal and state permits throughout California and the Southwestern United States • Previous laboratory analysis, fossil screening, plaster jacketing, and curation processing experience • Previous experience supervising personnel and direct reports • Demonstrated business development experience and success growing client relationships and project portfolios • Experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary environmental consulting projects • Resume and brief cover letter required

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, sick, and floating holidays) • Parental leave • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Disability insurance • AD&D insurance • 401(k) • Bonus pay eligibility, subject to ERM's discretion and policies