Senior Transportation Environmental Scientist

This position involves supporting market needs and client-focused solutions, including support of client management efforts, as well as strategic thinking to expand our Environmental practice in the Florida/Puerto Rico area. Responsibilities will include managing environmental projects and tasks in the state, identifying client opportunities, supporting major proposal efforts and mentoring and training staff. The position may also include functioning as an environmental team leader through supervising mid- to junior-level environmental staff.

• Orchestrate biological field surveys or assessments, data interpretation, analysis and report writing
• Assist public and private clients with permit coordination, acquisition and compliance for wetland, other surface waters, essential fish habitat, and threatened/endangered species
• Provide technical expertise at the project level and support growing HDR’s environmental program
• Remain uptodate with regulatory policy changes
• Support client relations and be involved with marketing, contractual, design and production meetings
• Function as a Senior Transportation Environmental Project Manager for permitting transportation projects and related environmental services
• Support regional or national projects in specific areas of technical expertise
• Manage and deliver several projects concurrently, including developing and managing budgets, schedules, and quality of product

HDR is looking for a Senior Transportation Environmental Scientist to join our inclusive, diverse, and highly collaborative environmental team. This position will be based out of HDR’s Tampa office. This individual must be an exceptional senior level environmental scientist and have expansive environmental permitting experience. While we work with a variety of clients from power, transportation, to water, with a range of complexity, candidates with extensive experience obtaining environmental permits for the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) are preferred. Candidates that strive for excellence in their day-to-day work, scientific practice, and careers; as well as those individuals that are interested in continuing to expand their scientific knowledge through collaboration and continued learning will integrate nicely into our environmental practice. While the focus of this role is to lead wetland delineations, species surveys, and associated regulatory permitting, biologists on our team have the opportunity to crosswalk all facets of project delivery including botany, fisheries, and NEPA.

• Previous experience obtaining US Coast Guard permits
• Previous experience scoping and producing environmental permits for FDOT projects.
• Local candidates are preferred
• Proficiency navigating complex regulatory scenarios.
• BS or MS degree in Biology, Environmental Science, or related field
• Demonstrated field experience, including leading field teams for aquatic resources delineations
• Good organizational and data handling skills, along with proficiency in MS Excel and ArcGIS software.
• Willingness to work in inclement conditions and travel for a few days at a time for field work.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience conducting focused aquatic resources delineations and permitting through an ecological consulting firm, resource agencies (USACE, Water Management Districts, FDEP, USCG), or similar in Florida.
• Previous experience working with the National Parks Service.
• A broad knowledge of Florida’s flora and/or fauna.
• Strong background in NEPA and statelevel environmental reviews, including environmental impact statements (EIS), environmental assessments (EA), FDOT PD&Es
• Previous Mitigation Design experience
• Ability to function as task lead and QC reviewer on a variety of natural resources studies and deliverables.
• Ability to market clients and experience writing proposals, developing scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for environmental projects with multidisciplinary teams and multiagency efforts
• Exceptional and demonstrated technical writing ability. Experience drafting technical documents such as scientific papers, survey findings reports, compliance documentation, or similar required.
• Previous experience managing and mentoring multidiscipline environmental staff
• Ability to coordinate with multidisciplinary technical teams to minimize impacts on natural resources and effectively incorporate into overall project schedule.