About the opportunity
Do you thrive in the pursuit of ensuring excellence in environmental consulting services for your clients? SWCA Environmental Consultants is expanding our Rocky Mountain Natural Resources team and looking for dynamic individuals who following their passion in delivering the highest-quality project work.
Our Denver (Broomfield) CO and Fort Collins, CO offices offer a collaborative work environment with a variety of interesting projects. Due to continued growth, we need a Natural Resources Technical Advisor to join us! As a Natural Resources Technical Advisor, you will have experience working in Rocky Mountain/Great Plains/Intermountain ecosystems, including grassland, sagebrush, and/or subalpine ecosystems with a background in restoration ecology or a related field. This position requires an excellent understanding of soils, hydrology, vegetation, and other physical and biological processes related to grassland, sagebrush, subalpine, and related ecosystems.
What you will accomplish
- While working in a multi-discipline team, you will be collaborating with botanists, wildlife biologists, soil scientists, geomorphologists, landscape architects, hydrologists, restoration engineers, and planners.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to support habitat restoration and reclamation projects including feasibility assessments, conceptual and detailed design, restoration/reclamation oversight, planning, maintenance and performance monitoring, reporting, visual presentations, and overall project management.
- You will have a passion for restoration ecology and reclamation, the capacity to learn, the desire to challenge yourself by developing new approaches and strategies, and communicate with team members and clients (verbal and writing)
- Have experience and a passion to lead efforts in client support and business development.
- Mentor and guide junior staff. Be an active member in the ongoing development of the Restoration Practice Group.
Experience and qualifications for success
Required
- Bachelor of Science in restoration ecology, biology, botany, landscape architecture, environmental science, or related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in environmental consulting or related field with a focus on habitat restoration.
- Direct experience with standard restoration and revegetation techniques and experience overseeing implementation and experience overseeing reclamation and restoration implementation, including soil handling/management, seeding, container planting, and site stabilization.
- Knowledge of Rocky Mountain/Great Plains/Intermountain grassland, sagebrush, and/or subalpine ecosystems
- Experience preparing technical studies and/or conceptual and detailed design plans for reclamation and habitat restoration projects, including site assessments, soil evaluations, and vegetation inventories.
- Evaluating analytical soil data and prepare remediation and reclamation strategies to ameliorate limiting factors to reclamation and restoration efforts.
- Expertise collecting, organizing, and analyzing field data that meets the highest standards using the latest protocols and tools.
Preferred
- M.S. or PhD in restoration ecology, biology, botany, landscape architecture, environmental science, or related field.
- Ability to identify noxious weeds and invasive nonnative species and provide guidance on control, treatment, and adaptive management of these species.
- Experience collecting, organizing, and analyzing field data.
- Strong organizational, communication, and analytical skills as well as ability to multitask.
- Proven ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience with biostatistics, experimental design, and survey techniques.
- Experience and knowledge with wildlife and/or botanical surveys and biotechnical reporting a plus.
- Experience preparing technical studies and/or conceptual and detailed design plans for reclamation and habitat restoration projects, including site assessments, soil evaluations, and vegetation inventories.
- Evaluating analytical soil data and prepare remediation and reclamation strategies to ameliorate limiting factors to reclamation and restoration efforts.
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EOE - women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
SWCA is committed to salary equity and salary transparency for all its employees. In alignment with this commitment, SWCA posts good faith pay ranges in all its advertised job postings to promote pay equity and transparency.
An employee in this Colorado based position can expect an hourly rate of $32-42/hr_. Actual pay within this range may depend on experience, qualifications, geographic location, client requirements where applicable, and other factors permitted by law._ Regular-status employees are also eligible for performance bonuses. Candidates are also encouraged to consider SWCA’s Total Rewards package, which includes a competitive Benefits package, forward-thinking workplace flexibility, outstanding corporate culture, award-winning career development, and more.