Staff Scientist

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🌪️ Kansas – Remote

🌪️ Kansas – Remote

💵 $62k - $87.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Terracon

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1965

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🔬 Science

Construction • Consulting • Science

Terracon is an employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting firm that supports projects across the full lifecycle — from site selection and subsurface investigation to design & mitigation, construction materials testing/inspection, facility engineering, and asset management. The company provides geotechnical engineering, environmental services, materials testing, and facility consulting to commercial, federal, healthcare, industrial/logistics, power, and transportation sectors. With proprietary data tools and more than 200 U. S. locations and 8,000+ employees, Terracon delivers local presence and national resources for construction and infrastructure projects.

📋 Description

• Conduct environmental site investigations, assessments and surveys to sample, measure and analyze air, water, material, and soil • Identify, evaluate and recommend risk and remediation strategies/designs to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations • Prepare permit applications, risk assessments, technical documents, proposals, reports and regulatory agency correspondence • Design systems and environmental protection plans • Conduct Phase I/II environmental site assessments, ecological and natural resource field surveys, tank closure assessments, asbestos abatement, storm water management, and site planning and permitting • Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards and participate in pre-task planning • Conduct site testing and make recommendations for systems design • Perform site visits, field observations and field data collection • Direct and supervise field staff to sample, test, collect data and document site activities • Develop written proposals for client approval • Evaluate laboratory and field data and assemble written reports • Participate in client meetings and project communications • Oversee work performed by lower-level scientists/engineers and technicians • Work under the supervision of a Terracon Authorized Project Reviewer

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science or related science field and a minimum of 3 years’ related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 7 years’ related experience • Master’s degree preferred • A valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history may be required • Certification in field of expertise required

🏖️ Benefits

• medical insurance • dental insurance • vision insurance • life insurance • 401(k) plan • paid time off and holidays • education reimbursement • various bonus programs • 100 percent employee-owned company