Project Manager

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Your Opportunity
Stantec GS is seeking a highly skilled Water Resources Project Manager to join our Honolulu, HI office. The candidate will utilize their expertise in water quality to fulfill a range of responsibilities related to water resources including project management, environmental monitoring, assessment, compliance, permit management, monitoring, multimedia sampling, laboratory results analysis, interpretation of results, coordination and communication with clients and regulators.
Your Key Responsibilities

• Management and oversight of compliance and investigative projects for surface water, groundwater, stormwater, wastewater, soil, sediment, and drinking water monitoring.
• Reviewing/updating Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program permit, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, Stormwater Management Plans (SWMP's) and other environmental permits and documents.
• Supporting field teams in operating/maintaining environmental monitoring equipment such as flow meters, automated samplers, turbidity meters, and YSI sondes.
• Oversight of project teams collecting, processing, and analyzing environmental samples from various media for laboratory analysis of chemistry, pathogens, and physical properties well as other biological and water quality index criteria while following established calibration and sampling procedures and requirements.
• Evaluate, interpret, qualify, statistically analyze and QA/QC sample laboratory results of bacteria, nutrients, metals, organic chemicals, petroleum, toxicity, and conventional parameters relative to data quality objectives for presentation in technical reports as well as database archiving.
• Provide management, technical, and regulatory guidance to commercial, municipal, defense, and industrial clients regarding storm water permits and plans (e.g., NPDES, UIC), industrial wastewater permits (e.g., IWDP, IWS), and pollution prevention (e.g., SWPCP).
• Support the installation and maintenance of advanced field monitoring stations in natural streams, wetlands and constructed drainage systems for continuous hydraulic/hydrologic, atmospheric, as well as sediment and water quality measurements.
• Assist with monitoring site surveys and design, as well as well and monitoring station installation planning and logistics.
• Manage and process physically measured and remotely accessed (telemetered) stream flow data for establishing and updating flow rating curves, identifying runoff coefficients, estimating runoff volumes and flow/time pacing for storm water composite samples, as well as producing storm event reports with hydrographs and charts.
• Support surface water, stormwater, wastewater, and pollution prevention compliance audits throughout industrial facilities ensuring environmental plan and permit developed monitoring requirements, records, procedures, equipment condition and operations, education/training, as well as operational and structural BMPs are in order.
• Drafting, updating and revising Sampling and Analysis Plans, Hydrologic Monitoring Plans, Quality Assurance Plans as well as other project and regulatory documents.
• Discussing technical water quality elements with the project team and providing guidance as needed.
• Developing written materials such as reports, educational materials, and communication materials regarding permits and laboratory results.
• Receiving project team and client comments on review of materials and addressing comments and edits.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Must be located in Hawaii
• Strong knowledge of water sampling techniques, water quality analysis, and environmental regulations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading and working with diverse teams collaborating effectively in a fast- paced environment.
• Ability to pass background screening.
• Excellent grammatical skills, excellent written and spoken English.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of risk communication principles.
• Ability to work independently or as a team, with strong attention to detail and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent MS Office skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Adobe.
• Must possess a valid driver's license with a good record.
• Demonstrated organizational skills with mechanical aptitude.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to conduct field work in the environment under storm conditions.
• Ability to operate a vehicle during storm conditions, may require weekend and after business hours work.
• Drug screen is required for position.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations and procedures is preferred but not required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Chemistry, Hydrology, Water Quality Management, Environmental Engineering, or related field.
• Master's degree or higher is preferred but not required.
• Project Management Professional Certification or similar is preferred but not required,
• Minimum of 15 years professional experience in water quality management or related roles with proven abilities to work on a variety of demanding projects with multi-disciplinary teams.
• 40 Hour HAZWOPER, adhering to OSHA 29 CFR §1910.120(e) is preferred but not required.
• Department of Defense experience preferred but not required.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

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