Environmental Data Management Specialist

Job Description

Take Your Environmental Career to the Next Level 

Kleinfelder, a Forbes' Top Employer for Engineers in North America, is committed to a people-first culture, technical excellence, and creating opportunities where employees can thrive!

Are you ready to be challenged, make a difference, and experience professional growth in your career? Kleinfelder's Environmental team is looking for you! From environmental planning, permitting, remediation, and site characterization to chemical data management and hydrogeology, Kleinfelder offers a variety of services designed to provide technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions.  

Step Into Your New Role

Kleinfelder is looking to add an Environmental Data Management Specialist to support environmental projects and programs across the United States.  This position may be based in Houston, Kingsville, or another Kleinfelder office, depending on the qualifications and location of the selected candidate.  The successful candidate will provide day-to-day environmental data management support, including the receipt, review, transformation, loading, validation, querying, reporting, and delivery of laboratory, field, historical, and geospatial data. The position will work closely with project staff, analytical laboratories, data validators, GIS analysts, field teams, and clients.

Job responsibilities

• Query, transform, organize, and report environmental datasets in accordance with project requirements.
• Process laboratory, field, historical, and geospatial data for import into and export from EQuIS and other project systems.
• Review electronic data deliverables for completeness, format compliance, and apparent data-quality issues.
• Support EQuIS Professional and EQuIS Enterprise workflows, including reports, forms, dashboards, views, and exports.
• Coordinate routine data exchanges among project teams, analytical laboratories, data validators, GIS analysts, and clients.
• Perform data cleanup, reconciliation, standardization, and migration activities.
• Develop and maintain project-specific reference values, data dictionaries, naming conventions, and workflow documentation.
• Prepare tables, reports, graphics, dashboards, and data packages for technical and client review.
• Write or modify SQL queries to retrieve, evaluate, and manipulate project data.
• Support field-data collection workflows using EQuIS Collect, EDGE, ArcGIS field applications, or comparable tools.
• Conduct quality-control reviews and document data corrections or exceptions.
• Support multiple projects while meeting established schedules and priorities.
• Provide guidance and training to project personnel and junior data-management staff.

Position requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, geology, chemistry, engineering, information systems, data science, geography, or a related field.
• Three to six years of environmental data management or comparable technical data experience.
• Experience working with EQuIS Professional, EQuIS Enterprise, or a comparable environmental data-management platform.
• Experience managing laboratory, field, monitoring, or historical environmental datasets.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and intermediate-to-advanced Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to write SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate datasets.
• Strong analytical, organizational, quality-control, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to document work clearly and communicate technical information to project staff.
• Ability to manage competing priorities with limited supervision.

Preferred skills and experience

• Experience with EQuIS Collect, EDGE, EQuIS Enterprise dashboards, EZView, or EarthSoft reporting tools.
• EarthSoft EQuIS training or certification.
• Experience with environmental electronic data deliverables and laboratory data workflows.
• Experience with environmental data validation or coordination with third-party validators.
• Familiarity with ArcGIS, geodatabases, Power BI, SSRS, SharePoint, AutoCAD, gINT, OpenGround, LIMS, or data-modeling tools.
• Experience automating repeatable tasks using Python, Power Query, VBA, R, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting environmental assessment, remediation, groundwater monitoring, industrial, or regulatory-compliance programs.

Following an offer, candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete employment reference checks, verification of professional licensure and/or educational credentials, a motor vehicle report (MVR), and a comprehensive background check.

Move Forward with Kleinfelder: Kleinfelder and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, has been connecting great people to the best work since 1961. We are engineers, scientists, and construction professionals providing solutions that improve our clients’ transportation, water, energy, and other private infrastructure. As a responsive, cross-disciplinary team of bright, curious, and innovative problem-solvers, we are dedicated to doing the right thing, every day, on every project from over 110 offices in the US, Canada, and Australia. Connecting great people to the best work is our purpose – together, we deliver.  

Progress with an Employer that Values You 

Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, is an inclusive organization free from discrimination. We are a stronger organization when we are a diverse workforce and believe that through diversity, equity, and inclusion comes creativity, innovation, and unity. We are proud to offer the following:  

Benefits:Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid holidays.  

Career Development:We are committed to investing in the professional development of our staff, offering each employee every opportunity to grow, develop, and take control of their career paths. We support these efforts through reimbursements for continuing education as well as many of the expenses associated with trainings and certifications, and opportunities for career development through our internal Mentoring Program.  

Equal Opportunity:Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)  

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES  

Please note that Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, will not consider or agree to payment for any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, Kleinfelder, and its’ subsidiaries and affiliates, explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kleinfelder.