Environmental Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a entry-level Environmental Engineer to join our established, multi-disciplinary team in our Indianapolis, IN office. This is an entry-level opportunity for a motivated individual looking for career growth in the environmental consulting field.   May 2027 graduates are encouraged to apply.   

As part of our Resilience Environment team, you’ll help improve quality of life.  

Role accountabilities:

The position offers an opportunity to learn about a wide variety of environmental projects, work with a talented team of professionals/mentors, and join a successful growing organization with a reputation for high-quality work and helping its world-class clients solve their most challenging issues. Arcadis provides multiple onboarding and development programs created for our young professionals that will expand professional growth and help drive creativeness, innovation, and greater integration within our local, national, and global teams.

Your responsibilities may include the following:  

• Perform fieldwork in all weather conditions which may include drilling oversight for soil sampling and/or groundwater well installation, groundwater sampling, excavation oversight, operation and maintenance of remediation systems, and vapor intrusion/soil gas surveys
• Coordination, management, reduction, and evaluation of field and analytical data as a key part in the preparation of technical deliverables
• Assist Project Managers (PMs) and Assistant PMs (APMs) with planning environmental investigation and remediation tasks
• Exhibit ownership of delegated tasks, including responsibility for coordination and delivery of on-schedule and on-budget tasks
• Office work may include task coordination, technical reports, data compilation, analysis, and interpretation, cost estimates, health & safety plan preparation, report writing, regulatory file review, permitting activities, proposal writing, project specifications & strategy development, scheduling, and cost estimating.
• Environmental remediation design tasks, including soil and groundwater remedial system and in-situ technology treatment design and assessment
• Interpretation and evaluation of field and analytical data to prepare engineering designs, permit applications, and construction-related documents

This is a full-time entry-level position that requires attention to detail, strong work ethic, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and willingness to perform field work.  This position is expected to support various projects from environmental investigation through design, permitting and remediation. The successful candidate will be working alongside and supporting task managers, technical experts, and project managers on multiple projects. Responsibilities will include a combination of field and office related tasks and will include travel and field work.  

During some periods, field work is expected to be as much as 60 to 80 percent of the candidate’s time with some travel requiring hotel stays. Field work may be performed at project sites with environmental media (e.g., soil, sediment, groundwater, surface water, etc.) that has been impacted with hazardous substances and/or hazardous wastes.

Fieldwork is a key aspect of this position, which will offer you an opportunity to be trained to oversee drilling for soil sampling and groundwater well installation, groundwater sampling, subcontractor oversight, operation and maintenance of remediation systems, vapor intrusion/soil gas surveys, among other tasks. Additionally, Arcadis supports many of our client’s needs when unforeseen incidents occur, such as train derailments, pipeline releases, etc. An aspect of this role is supporting our National emergency response teams to ensure rapid protection of human health and the environment. This work is completed under the direction of trained incident responders and may require unanticipated travel and work outside standard business hours.

Field work will require regional business travel for up to 1-2 days per week on average. A few times per year, travel will be required within the U.S. for up to two weeks at a time. Estimated travel is up to 75% during the first two years, with travel reduced with career growth. By the third year, travel for field work is typically 50%. Travel expenses are reimbursable.  

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering (Environmental, Civil, Chemical, or closely related field)

Preferred Qualifications 

• 40-hour OSHA HAZWOPER training and appropriate annual refresher certifications
• Power BI experience
• 1 year experience
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification preferred

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $54,648- $81,972.  Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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