Senior Environmental Engineer

Location:  

This role can be fully remote or hybrid – a mix of office and remote.  The selected candidate will be integrated into our regions engineering team working across Texas and Louisiana.

Why GES?

At GES, our employees are not viewed as assets - they are co-workers and teammates. We bring together talented professionals with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and ideas to help solve our clients’ toughest environmental and infrastructure challenges. Our success is founded on a culture of collaboration, where individuality and skills are embraced. With a regional structure and diverse portfolio of projects and clients, GES provides its engineers the ability to work on projects best suited to their talents and interests.

After more than 30 years in business, we still have that small firm feel and family atmosphere. What’s different today is our growing reach, resources, and impact. Our teams are behind some of the most complex environmental programs in the country, working alongside the most recognizable companies in the world. Our evolution is rooted in the strong personal relationships we build with our clients, our employees, and with the communities we live and work in. 

You can expect to work in a friendly environment where you’ll face challenging and rewarding work. Your contributions will make a difference, and your impact will be rewarded. You will have the opportunity to carve out your own career path, while working shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most talented and dedicated professionals in the industry.

Position Description: 

We are seeking a professional with a minimum of 12 years of experience and a wide range of knowledge and practice with remediation, environmental engineering design, construction and OM&M that can be integrated across our diverse portfolio of clients and projects.

 Preferred candidates will have experience leading and/or supporting complex remedial projects – from inception with proposal preparation to remedial evaluation, engineering design, management and execution of field work, reporting and client communications.  

Preferred candidates will perform well in a leading or supporting capacity with other professionals and possess the willingness and disposition to mentor engineering staff.  

The selected candidate will report to the Mid-Atlantic engineering manager and may be assigned junior or mid-level staff with time. 

Preferred Experience and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental, Chemical, Civil or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline (Master degree plus)
• Professional engineering (PE) license in Louisiana
• At least 12 years of related experience
• Demonstrated experience and in-depth knowledge of groundwater, soil, and soil vapor characterization and remedial techniques and technologies
• Demonstrated experience with managing large-scale and complex environmental sites involving hazardous and mixed wastes, free-phase product, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with cost estimating and bid preparation including technical proposal writing
• Experience with implementing pilot tests, engineering principles of design, installation and construction
• Experience with OM&M of remediation systems, treatment processes and optimization
• Experience with environmental compliance and/or permitting (NPDES, Air Quality, SPCC, EC&S).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and/or support project teams with excellent internal as well as excellent external client and regulatory communication skills
• Ability to foster collaborative and productive work relationships including interfacing with company-wide engineering/subject matter expert (SME) groups and mentoring and training of junior and mid-level staff 
• Considers health and safety (H&S) a core value in their everyday professional and personal life 

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Leading and/or supporting project teams with complex remedial evaluation, engineering design, management and execution of field work, reporting and client communications.  
• Establish priorities for the completion of work in accordance with sound time-management methodology. Must be resourceful with excellent communication and writing skills and possess a high degree of initiative and time management skills.
• Act as the lead engineer on client and bid proposal efforts as well as other life-cycle and order of magnitude costing efforts
• Assist clients and project teams across various industries with environmental compliance and/or permitting (SPCC, NPDES, E&S Controls, and etc.)
• Reviews plans, specifications, and technical reports prepared by junior and mid-level staff
• Mentors and coaches junior and mid-level staff on complex remediation activities
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the regional engineering manager
• Role may include Project Manager responsibilities depending on the candidate

Our comprehensive benefits include: Hybrid workforce, medical, dental, vision, prescription card, 401k, FSA, LTD, STD, New Parent Leave, 529 CollegeBound Fund, Tuition Assistance, Bonus Plan, and more.

Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) believes that diversity and inclusion among our staff is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. At GES, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law.