EcologistBiologist
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Description:
Arcadis is seeking an entry-level Biologist/Ecologist to join our Enviro Socio Permitting team in New York City. This successful candidate will support environmental desktop reviews data collection efforts regulatory permitting construction management and compliance monitoring and adaptive management. This role will work closely with a team of scientists engineers and planners supporting a wide range of clients throughout the region. The candidate must be a team-oriented individual with excellent written and verbal communication skills and capable of managing multiple activities related to environmental compliance and natural resources.
The projects are often fast-paced multi-faceted and geographically diverse. The position will require a candidate to work both collaboratively with a team of resource specialists and have the capacity to balance varying priorities and tasks to work on multiple projects concurrently and meet deliverable deadlines. Arcadis offers a flexible working environment and follows a hybrid work structure. Field work and travel will be required for this position.
Role Accountabilities:
As an entry-level Biologist/Ecologist you will apply your technical knowledge to work with client teams to provide high quality deliverables to support planning and permitting for a diversity of clients. You will be an important member of the east coast biological team interacting with other junior level biologists/ecologists senior technical experts and project managers as part of an interdisciplinary environmental and engineering team.
You will be responsible for conducting desktop assessments and field surveys (e.g. habitat evaluations and presence/absence surveys) to evaluate potential project impacts to sensitive habitats or special-status species and supporting wetland delineations. You will assist in the preparation of technical reports such as species survey reports wetland delineation reports mitigation and monitoring plans biological assessments and permit applications to support activities in regulated habitats (i.e. waters wetlands critical habitats). You will also conduct on-site construction compliance monitoring to ensure special-status species and habitat impact avoidance and compliance monitoring for mitigation projects to ensure consistency with articulated performance this role you will support regulatory reviews to minimize impacts to regulated habitats develop alternative analyses and complete impact assessments. This role will require the ability to travel up to 25% including overnight travel.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in science (e.g. ecology wetlands soil science water management). Preference for those with soil science course work.
- One year of experience in the environmental field or advanced degree in environmental science or similar
- Knowledge of east coast ecology wetlands and habitats special-status plants and/or wildlife and/or botanical knowledge
- Comfortable working in remote field locations
- Proficient using hand-held Trimble GPS
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $66300 - $89424 / per year. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.
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Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more