Alta is Hiring – Environmental Engineer Intern

We are seeking a college undergraduate or graduate student to join our team of environmental engineers and scientists as an Intern for approximately 16-25 hours each week in our Long Beach office.

Alta Environmental is growing a different kind of consulting firm – a firm of dynamic, motivated, and entrepreneurial technical experts. Alta is known for anticipating and resolving sustainability, compliance, remediation and restoration needs for the most significant industrial businesses and agency sector organizations. We are the best and brightest, a team of technical and scientific leaders and innovators who keep ahead of trends and requirements. Our experts are trusted advisors to clients across many industries and sectors. We help our clients obtain and maintain compliance with federal, state and local environmental regulations; and we specialize in the complex California regulatory agencies’ requirements. Our work makes businesses and communities cleaner, stronger, and safer. ​

You will experience all aspects of our business at Alta while supporting us in serving the most important clients in the region on projects that matter. You will get an opportunity to work across all of our service lines from air quality to water resources to site assessment and remediation to environmental health and safety to building sciences. You’ll be working with smart and dedicated people who work hard but like to have fun. At Alta there’s plenty of opportunity to increase your skills and share your ideas. And, probably most importantly, we do important work in a business that continues to expand and grow – which means you can develop strong technical expertise, expand your existing skills, learn from top experts in the business, and grow your career with us! If that matches what you are looking for… we want to hear from you!

Alta is proud to be a 2017 Zweig Group Best Firms To Work For. Alta was named in the top 5 Best Firms to Work For by Zweig. An award which recognizes the top architecture, structural engineering, civil engineering, environmental, geotechnical engineering, landscape architecture/planning, and multidiscipline firms in the US and Canada based on their workplace practices, employee benefits, employee retention rates, and much more.

Job Responsibilities (among other tasks):

• Duties will include working with the team in the field conducting field investigations.
• Collecting environmental field data, samples and conducting observations for various environmental media including air, water, soil, and building materials.
• Analyzing data and helping prepare documents and plans.
• Editing and performing QA/QC on data and reports.
• Creating technical graphics (CAD, GIS, and others) for reports.
• Managing laboratory data and report preparation.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Pursuing your degree or graduate degree in engineering, geology, environmental science or other related fields.
• Must have strong writing and math skills.
• Additional skills such as CAD and GIS are a plus.
• Excellent communicator with particularly strong writing and editing skills.
• Eye for detail and great organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments.
• A team player, with a sense of humor but a great work ethic.
• You are looking for an opportunity to get ‘real world’ business experience which exposes you to multiple aspects of a company’s operations.

​Please send resume and cover letter to Resumes@altaenviron.com. You must include “Open Position: Environmental Engineer Intern” in the subject line.