Principal Environmental Scientist

What Your Day Will Look Like:

As a principal environmental scientist, you will help lead the environmental assessments, impact evaluations, environmental surveys, environmental permitting, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations for transportation infrastructure projects. You’ll prepare permit applications, risk assessments and technical documents including proposals, reports, and regulatory agency correspondence. As well as design systems and environmental protection plans for ecological and natural resource field surveys, site planning and permitting.

What You'll Do:

• Plan and manage all aspects of small to medium environmental projects and processes.
• Project manage, develop bids and develop relationships with clients and stakeholders on a range of projects.
• Assisting public and private clients with permit coordination acquisition and compliance.
• Establishing client relations, including with marketing, contractual, design and production meetings.
• Prepare for and participate in public information meetings and hearings.
• Support the continued growth of our business and foster the development of environmental planning and approvals across the region.
• Assist with NEPA document preparation.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor of science degree in Biology, Ecology, Geology, Environmental Sciences, or related discipline
• 12+ years working with environmental transportation projects.
• This hybrid job operates between an office environment and a field environment and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones and copy machines. May occasionally be exposed to work environments that include exposure to inclement weather, heat, humidity, noise, hazard, atmospheric conditions, and bodies of water, depending on project requirements. While performing the duties of this job, physical demands of the employee include frequent sitting, moving, standing, talking, hearing, and occasional balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, handling, grasping, and feeling. This job may occasionally require operating a company vehicle, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.

What Benefits You’ll Enjoy:  

 

We invest in us. Because our team members go above, below, and beyond the surface to care for our communities (inside and out), we do our best to take care of you by providing a comprehensive benefits package! Eligibility for some of the benefits outlined below is based on full-time work status; part-time and contingent positions are only eligible based on hours worked. If you have questions, contact careers@consoreng.com. 

• Career Growth & Development – Tuition reimbursement program, paid professional training, major license achievement bonus, extensive on-demand learning center, and paid professional memberships.  

• Work-Life Alignment – Industry-competitive PTO, seven paid holidays and two floating holidays, flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, and eligibility for hybrid and remote work options for some employees based on role responsibilities.  

• Wellness – Medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and HSA and FSA options.  

• Life – Employer-paid STD and LTD, employer-paid term life insurance, and retirement 401(k) with company match.  

• Community – Quarterly social events, paid group volunteering events, and employee resource groups.   

  

How Your Career Will Grow:  

 

We know career growth is not always linear or streamlined—it’s often squiggly. You may want to explore a management track, try a new technical track, or move laterally to reposition your skills and talents. No matter what level you join us at or how you want to shape your career, we want Consor to be a place where you can learn and grow.  

  

Why You’ll Love Consor:   

 

At Consor, you’ll work with a network of water and transportation professionals who specialize in planning, engineering design, structural assessment, and construction services. Across geographies, you’ll have access to the resources and nationwide expertise found in a large consulting firm, while experiencing a community feel at the local level. You’ll experience a culture where we share in our successes and support one another through challenges. Here, there are countless opportunities to explore your career path by working on projects that help you expand your potential and take your ca