Alta is Hiring - Site Assessment and Remediation Professional Environmental Engineer (Long Beach or Oceanside, CA)

We are seeking an Environmental Engineer to join our team of Site Assessment and Remediation experts. The team works to serve our existing and rapidly growing client base in multiple sectors; including industrial clients (ie: aerospace, manufacturing, food service, etc.), healthcare, biotech, schools and universities, development (real estate and construction), and municipal. This position can be located in Long Beach or Oceanside.

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.  

What does all that mean for you? It means you’ll be part of a strong team that wants you to succeed and will give you the tools to do so. It means you’ll be working with smart and dedicated people who work hard but like to have fun. It means 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 where you want to be in your career and how you like to work, let us hear from you!

Alta is proud to be a 2017 and 2018 Zweig Group Best Firms To Work For. Alta was named in the top 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. 

You are qualified for this position if you are a technically knowledgeable seller/doer with strong inter-personal communication skills and the ability to build client trust and rapport. You are a high-energy achievement oriented with an entrepreneurial spirit. You excel in a collaborative team environment of like-minded experts and are recognized by your peers for the ability to interpret technical and analytical data and present it in a clear concise and understandable reports and graphics for clients (the layperson). You will promote our brand and build business through interaction with prospects and clients, high quality work, publications, and technical presentations.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Conducting contaminated site assessment/remediation; hydrogeology; and environmental risk management studies and services.
• Directing and performing field studies, data gathering and sampling activities at sites including soil and groundwater sampling, groundwater flow and hydrogeological data evaluation, chemical data and contaminant fate and transport evaluation, well installation, aquifer testing, and groundwater monitoring, groundwater and soil remediation evaluation, environmental due diligence, regulatory compliance services, and permit acquisition.
• Keeping abreast of federal, state and local regulations and published scientific findings as they pertain to the project assigned.
• Client service and identifying client needs.
• Serving as project manager interfacing directly with clients to understand client needs and develop proposals, scope, costs, schedule and budgets.
• Preparing, directing and reviewing technical reports, proposals and cost estimates
• Responsible for quality control review of proposals and reports written by others.
• Helping coach and mentor junior level staff.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited university in earth science (geology or hydrogeology) or chemical/civil/environmental engineering or other related science with at least 6+ years of demonstrated consulting experience in California.
• A Professional Engineering Registration in California is REQUIRED.
• Operational knowledge of computer databases and office programs (MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word).
• OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER Certification.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to prepare reports and proposals.
• Excellent writing and analytical skills a must.
• Project team management oversight and leadership ability.

Next Steps:

Please send resume and cover letter to Resumes@altaenviron.com. You must include “Open Position: Project Manager SAR” in the subject line.