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Take Your Environmental Career to the Next Level
Step into Your New Role
Responsibilities include conducting field activities, field oversight of subcontractors, authoring technical reports, working and communicating in a staff team environment, ensuring quality execution, and compiling/evaluating site data to progress projects toward regulatory closure.
Qualifications include:
Progress with an Employer that Values You
Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. The expected salary range for the position is displayed in accordance with the California Pay Transparency Law. Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and experience. Salary range: $47,755 – 69,551.
Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.
Equal Opportunity: Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES
Take Your Environmental Career to the Next Level
Are you ready to be challenged, make a difference, and experience professional growth in your career? Kleinfelder's Environmental team is looking for you! From planning, permitting, environmental remediation, and site characterization to chemical data management and hydrogeology, Kleinfelder offers a variety of services designed to provide technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions.
Step into Your New Role
Kleinfelder’s Rancho Cordova (Sacramento), CA office has an immediate opening for an Entry Level Geologist, Environmental Scientist or Environmental Engineer with to work on environmental assessment and remediation projects. Our projects are diverse and range from simple to moderately complex environmental site assessments and remediation projects, including commercial, industrial, and educational facilities, levees, dams, pipelines, electrical towers, and more! We offer a hybrid work environment and mentorship with our skilled team of environmental professionals! Come grow with us at Kleinfelder!
Responsibilities include conducting field activities, field oversight of subcontractors, authoring technical reports, working and communicating in a staff team environment, ensuring quality execution, and compiling/evaluating site data to progress projects toward regulatory closure.
Qualifications include:
- Be ready to learn, grow, and take on new challenges, applying your technical skills to diverse projects
- Be prepared for field work and varied work environments, for power, industrial, transportation, and water clients across Northern California
- Bring your talents to various client or project teams, with great communication, clear attention to detail, and constant flexibility
- Take on scheduling, lab/field coordination, data evaluation, technical report writing, and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) tasks
- Must be able to perform accurate computations, and maintain strong relationships with coworkers, contractors, and clients.
- Ability to perform bending, kneeling, standing, and lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 30 lbs.
- Ability to have a tolerance for working in outdoor environments, including prolonged walking or standing on various terrain in a wide range of weather conditions
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint is required, as well as effective oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to follow direction and work independently, as well as, in a team environment and a positive professional attitude.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as organization and multi-tasking skills
- The position requires strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, judgment and problem-solving capabilities to ensure compliance with relevant state/federal regulations and client-specific requirements
- The ideal candidate must have previous experience working on environmental projects and an established technical background in environmental assessment and remediation.
- Bachelor's degree in Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering or related discipline
- 0-3 years of environmental assessment/remediation field experience
- 40-hour OSHA HAZWOPER certification with up-to-date 8-hour refresher
- Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test
- Valid driver's license with a good driving record and the ability to travel and drive regularly, often long distances
Preferred requirements:
- Experience with logging soils or soil, surface water, groundwater and/or potable well sampling is a plus
- Familiarity with environmental remediation is a plus: remedial-excavation oversight, groundwater treatment systems, soil vapor extraction systems, or in-situ approaches
- Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC) card and American Petroleum Institute (API) Work Safe certification a plus
Move Forward with Kleinfelder
Kleinfelder has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients' transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 85 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose - together, we deliver.
Progress with an Employer that Values You
Kleinfelder is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that throughdiversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following:
Benefits: Kleinfelder offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays. The expected salary range for the position is displayed in accordance with the California Pay Transparency Law. Final agreed upon compensation is based upon individual qualifications and experience. Salary range: $47,755 – 69,551.
Career Development: We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.
Equal Opportunity: Kleinfelder is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES
Please note that Kleinfelder does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.
