Your role at GEI.
GEI has an outstanding mid-level environmental opportunity to help support our growing environmental practice in California. The position involves working on projects throughout California but especially in the Central Valley and/or Bay Area. The position has tremendous short- and long-term growth opportunities for your career within GEI, including stock ownership. You will work collaboratively with clients and GEI’s other leaders and experts in the environmental and engineering fields, primarily on water, energy, and multi-benefit projects for private and public clients, especially water supply and flood districts. As part of our multidisciplinary project teams, you will have an important role supporting tasks and projects; preparing permit applications and providing regulatory strategy; and working as part of our dynamic team to solve an array of water and environmental issues critical to California’s environmental, water, and energy landscape. A minimum of 5 years conducting aquatic resources delineations in accordance with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers standards is required. This position is open for hybrid/remote work opportunities and includes the following responsibilities:
Essential Responsibilities & Duties
- Lead aquatic resources delineations in accordance with appropriate regulatory guidelines.
- Prepare aquatic resources reports.
- Peer review delineation reports and QC field and spatial data.
- Maintain up-to date knowledge of aquatic resource regulations.
- Use desktop resources to preliminarily assess aquatic resources in a project area.
- Prepare field equipment, plan field logistics, and provide oversight of survey implementation and data management.
- Participating in meetings and phone calls with regulatory agencies;
- Actively participate in multi-disciplinary teamwork with biologists, planners, landscape architects, restoration ecologists, and engineers.