Senior Air Scientist

The Senior Air Scientist will lead a team of up to 10 junior and mid-level air scientists, providing guidance and direction while working productively in a team setting.

• Serves as a technical expert on air monitoring and sampling in client interactions.
• Delivers completed projects, including draft and final reports, within budget and schedule.
• Maintains readiness for immediate mobilization.
• Conducts sampling techniques that yield sound scientific data for evaluation reports.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods and approaches when standard procedures are inadequate.
• Prepares reports on methods and procedures as part of overall project documentation.
• Project scope may include asbestos sampling, vapor intrusion sampling, soil gas sampling, drum sampling, air monitoring, and air sampling for mercury and metals.
• Calibration and maintenance of multi-media monitoring and sampling equipment.
• Determines optimal data gathering, database management, and analysis methods to meet project goals.
• Documentation of field activities and preparation of daily and final reports.

U.S. Citizenship Required

Weston is seeking a Senior Air Scientist to support scheduled and time-critical responses to site-related environmental issues, including disaster/emergency response, environmental investigations, and remedial alternative analysis. This individual will serve as a project leader, supervising junior air science professionals and technicians, and will be responsible for developing and implementing sampling/monitoring and data collection plans. Proficiency in multi-media, multi-matrix sampling techniques and associated analytical methods is essential.

• Proficiency with field instrumentation, including calibration, field implementation, and result interpretation.
• Minimum of a B.S. Degree and 10 years of recent and relevant experience with air sampling/monitoring protocols (relevant experience may substitute for education).
• Self-motivated and team-oriented, with the ability to operate equipment using manuals or SOPs.
• Knowledge of vapor intrusion sampling using summa canisters and Tedlar bags.
• Experience preparing Site-Specific Quality Assurance Project Plans and Technical Reports.
• Ability to work collaboratively under the supervision of an Operations Coordinator and Program Manager.
• Availability for nationwide emergency response, with travel up to two weeks at a time (approximately 25% annually).
• Ability to work in PPE Levels D/C/B/A.
• Experience with air monitoring instruments such as AreaRAE, AreaRAE Pro, MultiRAE Pro, SPM Flex, TSI DustTrak, FID/PID, Mercury Analyzers, and data telemetry systems.
• Capable of planning and leading site-wide environmental investigations.
• Broad knowledge of calibration, maintenance, deployment, use, and data collection for handheld, portable, and transportable air sampling and monitoring devices.
• Leadership experience managing up to 10 junior and mid-level air scientists.
• 40-Hour HAZWOPER certification.
• Strong computer skills and ability to quickly learn new software.
• Experience in developing and implementing sampling/monitoring and data collection plans.
• Familiarity with PPE levels and ability to enter potentially hazardous areas.
• Ability to respond to hazardous material releases and conduct site assessments.
• Familiarity with the Incident Command System (ICS), especially ICS 100, 200, 700, and 800 courses (completion is a plus).
• Proficient in writing technical documents and plans.
• Skilled in preparing technical reports and performing desktop reviews of historical site data.

Salary Range: $67,343-$88,868-$110,290

Compensation will vary based upon experience, education, skill level, and other compensable factors.

We fully invest in our people: Weston provides a generous, comprehensive benefits package program that offers employees high value options with solid financial protection, meeting the personal needs of its people and their families.

At Weston Solutions, Inc. you will do meaningful work and make valuable contributions. Employee ownership at Weston is a path to professional growth and access to diverse opportunities in a highly connected community that works together across key service areas to make a difference in the environment. Weston has continued to evolve and adapt to our changing world as a premier provider of environmental and infrastructure services for over sixty years. In both the public and private sectors our teams help identify, solve, mitigate, and manage critical environmental issues to help clients achieve a more sustainable future.

• Professional development opportunities.
• Life and disability plans.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with base and matching employer stock contributions.
• Work/Life flexibility.
• Paid time off includes personal, holiday and parental.
• Critical illness and accident plans.