Environmental Geologist

2 days ago


Atlanta, Georgia, United States WSP Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Geologist to join our team in Atlanta, Georgia. As a Geologist at WSP, you will be responsible for managing and participating in environmental projects that involve field studies, report preparation, budget management, and interaction with coworkers, clients, subcontractors, and regulators.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage and participate in environmental projects, including site assessments, remediation, and risk management strategies.
  • Conduct environmental site assessments (Phase I and II, UST and other environmentally impacted sites).
  • Lead site investigation, oversee subsurface boring and trenching, and installation of monitoring and remediation wells.
  • Provide guidance with data collection efforts for extracting, identifying, and compiling environmental data from soil, soil gas, groundwater, stormwater, boring logs, and other matrices for investigations, and surveys.
  • Prepare complex data and visualizations, such as soil analyses, groundwater modeling, geologic cross-sections, and other illustrations.
  • Ensure regulatory requirement compliance pertaining to data integrity, documentation, procedures, training, monitoring systems, and record compliance and retention.
  • Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, and recommendations to prevent, control, or clean-up chemical and environmental problems and contamination.
  • Analyze, evaluate, and interpret geologic, hydrogeologic, and chemical data obtained during field investigations, offering input with developing corrective action plans.
  • Prepare or direct completion of technical documents, including descriptions of investigations, results, conclusions, and recommendations for review by senior staff.
  • Prepare and implement site Health and Safety Plans (HASPs).
  • Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.
  • Collaborate with professionals from a variety of disciplines to provide future-ready solutions for clients.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Geology or a closely related discipline.
  • Minimum of 4 years of environmental project experience, including task management, proposal writing, client contact, and regulatory interaction.
  • Experience in conducting Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments in accordance with ASTM guidelines and industry standards.
  • Experience with site investigations and remediation of environmental impacts to soil and groundwater.
  • Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant environmental laws, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.
  • Experience sampling soil and groundwater via drilling, including direct-push, hollow-stem auger, and other similar drilling methods.
  • Experience with soil logging based on the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS).
  • Experience installing groundwater monitoring wells, remediation wells, and soil gas wells.
  • Experience with software such as gINT, OpenGround Cloud, and ArcGIS.
  • Subcontractor management experience, including procuring subcontractor bids, purchase requisitions, and scheduling work.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Essential professional licensure/certification (GA P.G. or ability to obtain license).
  • Experience with groundwater and plume modeling software, such as MODFLOW, MODPATH, and/or MT3DMS, and associated interface/processing packages, such as Groundwater Vistas.
  • Basic First Aid and Adult CPR training desired.
  • 10-Hour OSHA Construction training desired.
About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors, and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water, and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings, focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals, and challenges. Are you ready to get started?


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