Experienced Remediation Engineer; Vapor Intrusion

Overview

Do you want to build an impactful career to change the world for the better?

Geosyntec has an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Remediation Engineer (Vapor Intrusion) to join its Northern California team, at our offices in Oakland or Walnut Creek, California. This position is ideal for an experienced professional interested in leading and delivering vapor intrusion (VI) investigations, risk evaluations, and mitigation projects as part of our environmental site assessment, remediation, risk, and engineering practices in the region.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, project delivery, permitting/regulatory coordination, and implementation of VI mitigation and remediation systems. Our client base includes a diverse mix of industrial, commercial, and governmental clients. This role offers the opportunity to work with a dynamic project team, contribute to technically challenging projects, and collaborate with industry-leading professionals.

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, geologists, and technical scientists 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 our 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.

• Manage VI remediation and mitigation tasks/projects, including scope development, work planning, budget and schedule management, design implementation, subcontractor oversight, and client communication to achieve technical and financial objectives.
• Develop VI conceptual site models (CSMs) and investigation/mitigation strategies, including sub-slab soil gas, soil gas, indoor air, and building survey approaches, consistent with applicable state and federal guidance and site-specific conditions.
• Lead the preparation of VI work plans and technical memoranda; evaluate and interpret analytical data; perform screening-level and refined VI risk evaluations; and develop clear, defensible conclusions and recommendations.
• Oversee pilot studies and full-scale VI mitigation/remediation implementation, including system selection and design (e.g., active/passive sub-slab depressurization, engineering controls), contractor procurement, permitting, construction oversight, commissioning, and operations & maintenance (O&M) support.
• Prepare and review technical deliverables (reports, letters, memoranda, sampling and analysis plans, mitigation designs/specifications, O&M plans, and proposals); provide technical review/approval of project team work products.
• Support growth of a VI client base by leading proposal development, pursuing repeat work, identifying new opportunities, and following through on personal business development goals.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, regulatory agencies, property owners/tenants, and other stakeholders; communicate VI concepts, findings, and mitigation approaches clearly and credibly.
• Mentor, support, and motivate early career staff in technical delivery and project performance, including VI sampling programs, data quality review, mitigation system evaluations, client expectations, and career growth.
• At times, this position may also include fieldwork, including site visits, multi-media environmental sampling and characterization, drilling oversight, contractor oversight, and remediation system operations, maintenance, and construction.
• Drive personal, company, and rental vehicles to client or company project or office sites, and other business locations, as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (civil, chemical, or environmental preferred). (required)
• Advanced degree in the same (preferred)
• Professional Engineer (PE) licensure. (required)

• At least 7 years (8+ years preferred) of direct environmental consulting experience with a focus on VI assessment and mitigation; or equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
• Strong technical foundation in remediation/engineering or geology (required), with demonstrated competency in VI approaches and related remedial technologies (e.g., soil vapor extraction, in situ injections). (required)
• Experience managing projects, including responsibility for resource allocation, quality, technical oversight, subcontractor/contractor coordination, and financial management. (required)
• Thorough understanding of CalEPA and USEPA regulations and guidance relevant to VI and remediation (required), including experience working with state/local oversight agencies.
• Experience mentoring and managing…