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The Field Scientist conducts environmental investigations, assessments, and surveys across terrestrial ecosystems, including riverine, wetland, and upland landscapes. The role evaluates and analyzes field data, supports permitting and technical reporting, and helps develop and oversee environmental protection plans. Projects may involve natural resource surveys, construction monitoring, compliance oversight, stormwater inspections, and site planning.
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General Responsibilities: Conduct environmental site investigations, assessments, and surveys to sample, evaluate and analyze terrestrial ecosystems including, but not limited to, riverine, wetland, and upland landscapes. Identify, evaluate, and recommend risk, remediation, and liability management strategies/designs to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Prepare required permit applications, risk assessments, and technical documents including proposals, reports, and regulatory agency correspondence and filings. Coordinate the development of environmental protection plans with project management teams and provide oversight for the implementation of such plans. Projects may include ecological and natural resource field surveys, construction monitoring and compliance oversight, stormwater management inspections, and site planning and permitting. Essential Roles and Responsibilities: Follow safety rules, guidelines, and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management. Be responsible for maintaining quality standards on all projects. Entry-to-Mid-level scientific professional responsible for gathering data and information to be evaluated and analyzed independently and by other team members. Perform testing and sampling of environmental systems including wetlands, streams, lakes, soils, etc. Assist with report preparation by summarizing data and information within report. Conduct field investigations related to wetland and watercourse delineation, stream assessments, and wildlife studies. Provide environmental compliance monitoring, inspection, oversight, and reporting. Tabulate and prepare data for written reports. Operate field monitoring equipment. Maintain, calibrate, and provide responsible care and routine inspection of all field equipment. Requirements: Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Biology, Environmental Science or related science field and a minimum 1 year related experience. Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 5 years' related experience. Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history. Preferred Certification: Certification in field of expertise. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Qualified Bog Turtle Surveyor (QBTS) or other T&E species qualifications Terracon is an EEO employer. We encourage qualified minority, female, veteran and disabled candidates to apply and be considered for open positions. We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender, disability, age, or military status.
How this job compares
Set against the 795 open Environmental Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$83–136K/yr526 salary ranges
- US median$26–35/hr71 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 35 open Environmental Scientist jobs in Pennsylvania and 795 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- CDM Smith8 open
- Terracon (this employer)6 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Environmental Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 667 postings).
- Education
- 334 of the 795 open Environmental Scientist jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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