Staff Technician, Environmental Scientist 2 at Haley & Aldrich, Inc.

Find your path and enjoy the journey with Haley & Aldrich. With us, you’ll tackle clients’ most meaningful challenges in the built and natural environments – and, in turn, build stronger communities. You’ll work with teams of passionate colleagues, driven by a commitment to technical excellence and continuous learning.

As a company, we aim to build a world where communities go beyond resilience, embracing change as an opportunity to enhance safety, well-being, and quality of life. Join us to accelerate this vision and your professional development. 

We are looking to add new talent to our growing team! We are currently seeking an Environmental Field Technician 2 to perform air monitoring, dust monitoring, groundwater sampling, and treatment system operation and maintenance (O&M), in a field technical support role alongside highly skilled professionals on diverse project teams in a dynamic environment. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing company and contribute to a variety of field projects for a diverse range of clients. This is a full-time, hourly field position located in our Oakland, CA office.

In this role, you will work on environmental sites in San Francisco, Berkeley, and the greater East Bay Area, conducting air monitoring, subsurface explorations, soil identification, and installing/maintaining instrumentation. Responsibilities include a variety of environmentally-focused field tasks as a member of a team on complex, often multidisciplinary projects.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
In this position, you will:

• Independently perform field tasks related to air and dust monitoring, soil sampling, soil vapor sampling, groundwater sampling, surface water sampling, and/or treatment system O&M.
• Support site characterization efforts by leveraging results from field investigations such as subsurface explorations, monitoring well construction, and field sampling.
• Conduct basic construction observation, including quality control documentation and field-testing tasks.
• Organize, reduce, and synthesize field data for project use.
• Prepare and maintain accurate documentation of activities both in the field and during data evaluation.
• Assist in developing technical scopes of work and cost estimating for proposal efforts on small- to medium-sized tasks or project opportunities.
• Perform all work in accordance with company and client Health & Safety protocols.
• Demonstrate Haley & Aldrich’s foundational safety behaviors.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Minimum Skills and Requirements:

• High school diploma, plus college coursework or training in Environmental Science and field collection methods.
• 2+ years of environmental field experience relevant to air monitoring, deploying air samples, and conducting real-time air monitoring with PIDs and dust meters.
• Proficiency in verbal communication, reasoning, and time-management.
• Ability to work independently or with minimal direction, under guidance from senior staff.
• Strong desire to learn and grow professionally, with a positive attitude, strong work ethic, resourcefulness, flexibility, and ownership.
• Experience with Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to meet the physical demands of field work: lift 50 lbs., traverse uneven landscapes, work outdoors in all weather, and maintain stamina for moderate physical activity for most working hours.
• Willingness to work a 10-hour workday with early 7:30 am start times.
• Ability to commute and travel 80-90% to local Bay Area sites and occasionally support other offices across the west coast, which may require overnight stays.
• Valid California Driver’s License.
• Ability to pass a drug screening for substances illegal in the state of California and baseline medical surveillance screening.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science or related field.
• OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER training.

The salary range for this position in Oakland, CA is $30.00 – $37.00 per hour. Actual compensation will be based upon a variety of factors such as education, related work experience, certificates, skills, and current market conditions. Haley & Aldrich reviews salary ranges each quarter to assess competitiveness with the market.

About Haley & Aldrich

Haley & Aldrich is committed to solving our clients’ most meaningful challenges in the built and natural environments. Our team of 1,000+ engineers and scientists across the United States draws inspiration from one mission: to work closely with clients as they navigate change to create safer, more robust places to live and work. Since our founding in 1957, organizations across the public and private sectors have relied on us for technical excellence and empathetic leadership that achieve results and secure a thriving tomorrow. Find us at haleyaldrich.com and LinkedIn.

Haley & Aldrich is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, age, disability, veteran, or any other legally protected status. We offer excellent career growth, a highly competitive total compensation plan, and a solid benefits package. Interested candidates should apply on our Careers page.

Note to external search firms: Haley & Aldrich does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not be obligated to pay a placement fee for unsolicited resumes. Please do not send resumes to Haley & Aldrich employees. Please work through a Talent Acquisition Manager.

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