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Environmental Scientist - Power Plant & Transmission Line

Employer
Versar, Inc.
Location
Columbia, Maryland, US
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Feb 14, 2023

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Sector
Academic / Research, Consultancy/Private Sector
Field
Informatics / GIS
Discipline
Permitting
Salary Type
Salary
Employment Type
Full time
Versar, Inc., in Columbia, MD, is seeking an environmental scientist with experience or interest in power plant and transmission line environmental impact assessments, with complementary data management and analysis skills, who works well as a member of a team, and enjoys technical and scientific challenges.

Suitable technical training or experience would include the following:

Provides technical support for evaluating power plant (primarily solar facility) and transmission line applications with an emphasis on reviewing environmental aspects related to facility licensing and permitting.
Communicates professionally with Maryland's State contractors, subcontractors, regulatory agencies, generation companies, utilities, and other interested parties during various projects.
Coordinates Versar's review and regulatory analysis of the potential biological impacts of various solar facility, wind, transmission line, and other electric power plant projects in compliance with local, state, and federal policy.
Performs project delivery activities such as report writing, undertaking and organizing data collection and survey field work, data and literature review, drafting impact analyses, and developing licensing recommendations for clients.
Interest in environmental policy and legal aspects of licensing energy facilities, including preparing materials for cases before the Maryland Public Service Commission.
Data analysis and management skills (Microsoft Access and Excel; programming skills preferably in R and/or SAS).
Preferred: Experience in statistical applications to natural resource and ecological problems

This position may also support a variety of other projects, including but not limited to, fisheries, marine benthic ecology, freshwater streams, watershed modeling, and water quality analyses.

Minimum requirements

Bachelor's degree and three years' experience in a relevant discipline of the biological or environmental sciences; M.S. degree preferred.
Good oral and written communication skills are required along with experience in technical writing.
The ability to work on multiple projects in a multi-disciplinary team setting is necessary.
Successful candidates must be flexible, self-starters, able to creatively solve problems, capable of good internal and external client interactions, able to meet deadlines, and able to assist in development of new projects.

Versar's Natural Resources Service Area has a national reputation for high quality research in freshwater, estuarine, marine, and terrestrial environments. The scope of project activity within the Natural Resources Service Area ranges from designing and implementing field studies to complex ecosystem impact assessment and resource management. The Columbia Office's natural resources professional staff work within an informal, interactive research atmosphere that provides opportunity for individual growth and advancement. Projects are supported by an array of corporate resources including field sampling equipment, boats, biological laboratories, statistical analysis and GIS tools, and document production facilities.

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