Environmental Field Services Technician

As an Environmental Field Services Technician, you’ll support emergency response and natural disaster efforts involving environmental and hazardous materials incidents. This is a fast-paced, on-demand role requiring flexibility, quick decision-making, strong communication skills, and comfort working in high-pressure situations. You can set your availability, though workload may vary significantly throughout the year.

Job Type: Part Time

Location: Loveland, CO

Schedule: This is an as-needed position with a flexible schedule and based on demand with no guaranteed minimum of hours.

Project Pay Rate: $25.00 - $35.00 per hour.

Potential extensive overtime opportunities at 1.5 or higher pay multipliers.

This role will be responsible for a full range of activities including:

• Conduct environmental field investigations, including soil and groundwater sampling, monitoring well support, remediation oversight, and collection of accurate field data.
• Assist with planning and executing sampling strategies, maintaining field equipment, and ensuring proper calibration and operation.
• Support environmental remediation and compliance projects through data management, quality assurance, technical reporting, permit documentation, and proposal development.
• Help coordinate project activities by tracking schedules, budgets, deliverables, and communicating with clients, subcontractors, laboratories, and regulatory agencies.
• Maintain project records, field logs, chain-of-custody documentation, timesheets, and electronic databases.
• Adhere to health, safety, and regulatory requirements, including OSHA standards, PPE use, safety training, and continuous improvement initiatives. Manage high workloads and multitask effectively in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
• Work extended hours, including overtime, weekends, overnight shifts, and rare 24-hour shifts as required.
• Independently operate monitoring instruments and record measurements
• Prepare chain-of-custody documentation for environmental samples.
• Drive non-commercial vehicles to and from project sites.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

These requirements reflect the knowledge, skills and abilities that help you do your best work here.

• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Functional or higher computer literacy skills in a Windows-based environment required.
• Experience in any branch of the armed forces desirable.
• Experience and/or proficiency with industrial hygiene equipment desirable.
• Experience using air and environmental sampling equipment desirable.
• Ability to understand and follow directions

The physical and environmental requirements below reflect what’s typically needed to perform the essential functions of this role safely and effectively. We may provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, consistent with applicable law, to support performance of the essential functions.

FREQUENT:

• Sitting, standing, and walking;
• Lifting up to 50 pounds several times a day;
• Overhead lifting of over 20 pounds;
• Bending, stooping, crawling, and climbing ladders;
• Long hours involving overtime and weekends as necessary;
• Keyboarding/typing;
• Ability to read effectively from a computer screen, sampling device, and/or paper copy;
• Ability to handle a large volume of work and perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment;
• Frequent, unscheduled travel for extended periods of time; and,
• May work outdoors and may be exposed to hot and cold environments and extreme weather conditions including but not limited to: sunlight, rain, snow, windy conditions;
• Encounter environments presenting physical hazards including: uneven ground, standing water, ditches, dusty conditions, rapidly moving transportation/remediation equipment, and physical stress associated with the wear of personal protective equipment;
• May be assigned varying shifts including overnight shifts; and
• May work in a setting with potential physical, chemical, and biological hazards.

OCCASIONAL:

• Ability to drive noncommercial vehicles;
• Rarely may work shifts of up to 24 hours in duration;
• Dress out in physically demanding personal protective equipment (PPE) for site entry at HAZWOPER sites as required under 29
  
  CFR ; and
• Wear partially or totally encapsulating personal protective equipment.
• May work at altitudes greater than 5000 feet above sea level and