Senior Biologist

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a Senior Biologist to join our Environmental Services Practice working within our power utility sector in the Northern California region. The position is to be based out of our Walnut Creek, Sacramento, Petaluma, Roseville, Chico, San Jose, or Fresno Office; geographic alignment with other Stantec offices will be considered based on experience. Stantec offers flexible work locations (including working from home), flexible work hours and a robust compensation and benefits package.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage tasks and projects according to approved scopes of work, and deliver quality reports on schedule and within budget
• Contribute to and lead business development activities, including proposals, pre-qualifications, and relationship building with clients and prospective clients and industry colleagues
• Have established relationships with clients and regulatory agency staff
• Assignments/projects are advanced in nature and require the application of mature knowledge
• Responsible for planning and conducting assignments/ projects having broad scope for independent accomplishment and coordination of difficult tasks
• Develop, manage, and implement projects related to wetlands, biophysical impact assessments, environmental assessments, and regulatory approvals
• Provide senior technical advisory relating to natural science and biology on multidisciplinary projects
• Apply technical and business knowledge and methods to develop creative, effective, and economical solutions to address current and potential project issues. Assist in analyzing current and emerging technical issues, and implementing actions to proactively address market, business, regulatory, and/or economic issues
• Present results to clients and regulators. Participate in Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work Recommendations are reviewed for soundness of judgment; accepted as accurate and feasible
• Provide supervision, training, technical direction and mentoring to more junior staff Executes specific technical tasks or requirements for medium to large projects
• Qualifies as a Quality Reviewer and undertakes Quality Reviews of moderate to large deliverables
• This position requires coordination with clients, resource agencies, and environmental and technical staff. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and organizational skills are essential. This role will require overseeing all aspects of project management, biological impact assessment and mitigation strategy development, and preparation and review of biological resources documents