Principal Geologist - Environmental Assessment and Remediation

Overview

Are you interested in building a meaningful career that can help make a positive impact on the world?

At Geosyntec, we partner with clients to solve complex challenges at the intersection of the environment, water, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. We are seeking a Principal Geologist to help lead and grow our Environmental Assessment and Remediation practice in California, with an emphasis on supporting the Fresno office, Central Valley market, and broader Northern California operations.

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an accomplished environmental consultant with strong technical expertise, established client relationships, and a proven ability to develop, sell, manage, and deliver complex environmental investigation and remediation programs. The successful candidate will help strengthen Geosyntec’s regional presence, expand our environmental consulting capabilities, and support strategic growth across industrial, municipal, energy, solid waste, transportation, and government markets.

In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership, client and business development vision, project delivery oversight, and people leadership for multidisciplinary teams working on complex environmental assessment, remediation, compliance, and restoration projects. You will mentor and develop high-performing staff, cultivate long-term client relationships, and collaborate with regional and national leaders to deliver innovative, technically sound, and practical solutions.

• Environmental site assessment, site characterization, and remedial investigations involving soil, groundwater, soil vapor, sediment, and surface water.
• Remediation planning, feasibility studies, remedial design, remedy implementation, construction oversight, and long-term operations, maintenance, and monitoring.
• Vapor intrusion assessment and mitigation, soil gas investigations, risk evaluation support, and regulatory strategy development.
• Projects involving petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, metals, PFAS, PCBs, and other emerging or complex contaminants.
• Regulatory programs and projects involving the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards, DTSC, CUPAs, CERCLA, RCRA, CalEPA programs, and local agencies.
• Technical strategy, permitting support, stakeholder engagement, and advisory services for public- and private-sector clients.

Our clients span the industrial, institutional, energy, solid waste, transportation, municipal, and public-sector markets, offering the opportunity to work on impactful projects that address critical environmental and resource challenges.

• Lead and grow a strategic environmental assessment and remediation practice in California, with a focus on Fresno, the Central Valley, and Northern California.
• Develop and expand client relationships across environmental, industrial, energy, solid waste, transportation, public-sector, and private-sector markets.
• Serve as a Client Manager, Account Lead, or senior technical advisor for key strategic clients.
• Work on complex projects that address critical environmental, groundwater, remediation, compliance, and infrastructure challenges.
• Collaborate with recognized technical experts across Geosyntec’s national and international consulting platform.
• Make a lasting impact through strategic growth, mentorship, technical excellence, and exceptional client service.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

• Lead business development strategy for the Fresno office, Central Valley market, and broader California environmental assessment and remediation practice, including identifying opportunities, developing client relationships, expanding existing accounts, and leading proposal efforts.
• Serve as a Client Manager, Account Lead, or senior technical advisor for one or more strategic clients.
• Provide senior technical leadership for environmental investigation, remediation, compliance, restoration, and long-term monitoring projects.
• Lead complex, multidisciplinary projects from planning through delivery, including scope development, technical strategy, investigation design, feasibility evaluation, remedial design, permitting, construction…