Job Description
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt, Hourly
Reports To: Assistant Project Manager
Job Type: Full-Time, Temporary
Compensation: $24 - $28 per hour, based on relevant experience; per diem
Benefits: Not eligible for benefits
This position is for a project that will begin in April 2025 and end in October 2025. This position is primarily a field-based position with minimal office time anticipated. The average work week is Monday-Saturday 10-hour days.
Interested candidates will be required to relocate to Rawlins or Casper, WY where work will be conducted.
About Eocene Environmental Group:
Our team has spent the past two decades providing environmental, utility vegetation management (UVM), software and sustainability services. We are fortunate to be a part of the Wright Service Corp. family, which has helped us establish a strong foundation for continued growth and success.
Through a strategic alignment of values and goals, four Wright Service Corp. entities joined and integrated into one, operating as Eocene Environmental Group. These four entities are:
- Forestry & Utility Division
- Environmental Division
- Technology & Innovation Division
- Sustainability Division
JOB SUMMARY: The Environmental Scientist is involved in the assessment of potential environmental impacts related to soils and groundwater for numerous small utility projects.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions:
- Inspecting and monitoring construction activities to ensure resource protection measures are being implemented to protect sensitive resources
- Verifying sensitive archaeological sites are flagged for avoidance
- Ensuring rare plant populations are properly flagged for avoidance
- Tracking and reporting construction activities
- Documentation of compliance/non-compliance with resource protection measures
- Completing daily reports
- Photo documenting site conditions
- Interacting professionally with relevant parties
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance at work and meetings
- Support, actively participate, and act in accordance with Wright’s and Eocene Environmental Group's culture of safety and employee ownership.
- Comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations; maintains knowledge of and follows all company policies and procedures
OTHER DUTIES: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
- Position will require travel as needed
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Degree in an environmental resource field (environmental science, biology, ecology, archaeology, or paleontology)
- Minimum of 0-2 years relevant work experience required
- Ability to work long hours in potentially extreme weather conditions
- Competence using global positioning system units, maps, iPads, and submeter accuracy devices
- Ability to operate four-wheel drive vehicles on rough terrain
- Ability to perform work duties independently or in a team setting
- Clear communicator, highly organized, motivated, thorough, accurate, and dependable
- Ability to read, write and speak English sufficient to perform job duties and to interact and communicate with employees and vendors
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Biological resources (specifically avian surveys, raptor identification, botanical surveys, and/or bat surveys)
- Implementing and/or monitoring erosion and sediment controls including preparation and maintenance of Stormwater Prevention and Protection Plans (SWPPPs)
- Cultural resources
- Paleontological resources
- Soils
- Restoration and reclamation processes
- Field experience on construction projects
- Familiarity with electrical transmission and distribution line construction activities
- Performing environmental inspections for construction monitoring
- Prior experience working in Wyoming
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