NV5|Alta is Hiring – Senior Site Assessment and Remediation Professional (Long Beach or San Diego, CA)

We are seeking a Senior Site Assessment and Remediation Professional to join our team of site assessment and remediation experts. This leadership position is a seller-doer responsible for leading growth, developing client relationships, managing teams, and serving as a senior technical expert. 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 is in our Long Beach or San Diego office.

NV5|Alta Environmental is a growing firm of dynamic, motivated, and entrepreneurial technical experts. NV5|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.  
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NV5|Alta is proud to be a 2017, 2018, and 2019 Zweig Group Best Firms To Work For. 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 proven technical expert and knowledgeable seller/doer with strong inter-personal communication skills. You have successfully led teams and managed client relationships resulting in growth. Your natural leadership style fosters trust and rapport with clients, regulators and your team. You are high-energy achievement oriented with an entrepreneurial spirit. You are a leader who excels 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).x 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:

• Growing client relationships through consultative technical sales to develop projects and drive business growth
• 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.
• Leading and mentoring technical staff to help them grow their careers as expert
• Interfacing directly with clients to understand client needs and develop proposals, scope, costs, schedule and budgets.
• Leading, preparing, directing and reviewing technical reports, proposals and cost estimates
• Responsible for quality control review of proposals and reports written by others.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from an accredited university in chemical/civil/environmental engineering or related engineering field and at least 10+ years of demonstrated consulting experience in California.
• A Professional Engineering (PE) Registration in California or a registration in Geology or Hydrogeology 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: Senior SAR Professional” in the subject line.