Environmental Task Manager

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking an Environmental Task Manager to join the team in Syracuse, NY. As a Task Manager you will collaborate with a dynamic and growing team to support projects through all phases of the site evaluation and remediation life cycle. This role is ideal for an ambitious individual seeking career growth in environmental consulting and the environmental remediation market. In this position you will have the opportunity to develop and refine a wide range of essential skills that serve as the foundation for growth into a successful project manager or team leader in the environmental industry.

This role will sit within the larger Global Resilience Business Area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires is becoming more frequent.

We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

As a Task Manager you will play a key role as part of a collaborative team, contributing to the planning, management, reporting, and execution of various project scopes. Your daily/weekly activities will be primarily office-based work, with the potential to conduct some site field visits involving both local and regional travel. Successful candidates for this position will have prior experience in task management and/or the execution of environmental investigations or remediation under the direction of a project manager.

Key aspects of task management include overseeing scopes of work, schedules, and budgets, while ensuring strict adherence to health and safety requirements. Preferred qualifications may include project management experience, experience writing and managing environmental reports, and knowledge of local and federal environmental regulations.

• Health and Safety Stewardship:
  Ensuring adherence to safety protocols and procedures for you and your project team.
• Client, Regulatory, and Stakeholder Interaction:
  Communicating effectively with clients, regulatory agencies, and stakeholders under the supervision of the Project Manager.
• Site Data Evaluation:
  Supporting routine environmental monitoring sites, reviewing data quality, supporting team members with site strategy developments, utilizing data to adhere to local/state/federal regulation, and contributing to the optimization of site remedies.
• Technical Documentation:
  Reviewing and coordinating completion of environmental reports and field activities.
• Coordination:
  Helping to organize work schedules with Arcadis staff and subcontractors.
• Financial:
  Producing cost estimates, forecasting project spend, reviewing client invoices, and tracking key performance indices under the supervision of the Project Manager.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Geology, Environmental Science, Engineering, or similar related field
• 4+ years of experience in the environmental industry preferred

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous experience with technical report writing and data evaluation, environmental project management concepts, or environmental consulting experience
• Familiarity with regulatory agencies and policies (NYSDEC, NJDEP and/or USEPA), preferred not required
• 40-hour HAZWOPER certification (with an annual 8-hour refresher, if applicable)

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