Environmental Field Technician at GHD

GHD has an excellent opportunity for an Environmental Field Technician to join our team in Midland,TX. This position offers great variety of projects within our contamination, assessment, and remediation (CAR) group! This role is a “hands on” field position which requires travel and overnight work.

Come and see where your career can take you and the impact your commitment can make.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Inspection, maintenance, monitoring and sampling of environmental groundwater wells
• Ensure work is completed in a safe and compliant manner with respect to applicable OSHA, GHD and client standards
• Generate quality field notes and enter collected field data electronically to database programs
• Correspondence with certified laboratory and shipping of collected samples
• Perform site inspections and collection of assessment field data including soil, surface water and air
• Operations and maintenance, troubleshooting and oversight of remedial equipment including groundwater extraction systems, soil vapor extraction, dual phase extraction and related environmental remediation equipment
• Participate in emergency response (ER) events on an as needed basis
• Work directly with clients and contractors

What you will bring to the team:

• Ability to perform field work (i.e., wear respirator)
• Commitment to safety applying a behavior-based safety culture in all aspects of the job
• Strong mechanical, electrical and computer proficiency
• Ability to work extended hours and travel out of town on a regular basis
• Physically capable of working in non-ideal conditions, such as hot/cold temperatures, wet weather, outside, and around loud equipment and traversing rough terrains
• Ability to be a self-starter, flexible, great teammate, willing and able to work on a wide variety of tasks with minimal direction
• Ability to analyze field readings, data, and operating parameters to optimize system operations

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of previous environmental sampling field experience.
• Associate’s degree in physical science, mechanical systems, or related field (relevant on-the-job experience may be considered in place of degree).
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• OSHA 40-hour HAZWOPER is a plus
• Must have a valid driver’s license and a clean driving record

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision & FSA
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday Pay
• Long & Short-Term Disability
• Life Insurance, Wellness Reimbursement, and/or Employee Assistance Program.

Our vision is to ensure energy, water and urbanization are made sustainable for generations to come. You can lead the way into a new future for our industry, inspiring the next generation of driven and committed people in the process.