Scientist

External Job Opportunity

Job Duties/Scope Of Work


WORK SAFE, MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND BE A PART OF HISTORY WITH THE CPCCO TEAM!

At Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo), located in Richland, Washington, we are working to provide a sustainable future for the historic Hanford area through the protection of the Columbia River and the remediation of the Central Plateau. To achieve our mission, we need exceptionally talented, innovative, and driven people to help us reduce risks on the Hanford Site by removing some of the most hazardous waste streams and facilities in the Department of Energy (DOE) complex. If you would like to work with a highly skilled workforce to achieve unique and challenging goals that critically impact our environment and community, this is your chance to be a part of our legacy!

Our Regulatory Strategy team is seeking a dynamic Scientist to support our mission in progressing the environmental restoration program through performing statistical analysis and interpretation of complex data and providing statistical expertise and services for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) closure planning, sample plan design, and post closure sampling.

The job duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to the following:
* Supporting soil and groundwater remedies through data evaluation, statistical analysis, reviewing, organizing, evaluating, and reporting groundwater and soils data, and remedy optimization.
* Performing evaluations to determine whether monitoring networks, monitoring plans, and their supporting documents address regulatory requirements, and contribute to the completion of environmental cleanup objectives.
* Developing technical approaches and defining strategic approaches for cleanup and closure for remediation decisions for Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and RCRA programs.
* Incorporating accepted Hanford cleanup approaches into the regulatory documents under development, which includes incorporation of DOE's Central Plateau Principles & Parameters, human health and ecological risk assessment scenarios, and negotiated land use and cleanup levels.
* Authoring, reviewing, and delivering technical and regulatory documents demonstrating compliance with Atomic Energy Act (AEA)/CERCLA/RCRA requirements, groundwater monitoring, closure, and permit development to support environmental cleanup.
* Ensuring that regulatory documents meet customer and regulator expectations and are consistent with the previous approaches used for Hanford cleanup as well as meeting the strategic vision for completing cleanup.
* Ensuring that environmental documents to support groundwater, closure, and permit requirements are compliant with applicable regulations.
* Advising on the selection of statistical methods and tools appropriate to environmental data and regulations
* Developing and maintaining statistical models and databases
* Designing statistical analyses for various environmental datasets
* Reviewing methodologies to ensure compliance with current regulatory standards for environmental statistics
* Utilizing Visual Sample Plan software for designing sample plans and for performing statistics on post-closure sampling
* Provides statistical expertise and services for RCRA closure planning, sample plan design, and post closure sampling
* Preparing presentations materials, preparing meeting notes, defining investigation needs, and preparing sampling and analysis plans.
* Creating presentations and responding to comments from the State of Washington Department of Ecology, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
* Working closely with the DOE customers on scope definition, disposition of document review comments, and project schedules.
* Cooperatively working with DOE, State of Washington Department of Ecology and EPA in meetings and workshops.
* Working within a structured team on special and routine tasks for completing the baseline scope, requests by the local DOE customer, DOE headquarters and the local regulators.
* Coordinating and conducting discussions with clients and regulatory agencies for the purpose of communicating progress and issues associated with groundwater monitoring, regulatory compliance, closure, corrective action and removal/remedial actions
* Working with a team of environmental professionals to develop and implement process improvements.
* Reporting progress and issues to senior management.
* Performing work in a safe, compliant, and cost-effective manner.


Basic Qualifications


* Career Level Grade 18: Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or related technical degree with 6 or more years of relevant experience
* Career Level Grade 19: Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or related technical degree with 8 or more years of relevant experience

The higher posted level has greater scope, complexity, authority, impact. The level offered to the selected candidate will be based on the needs of the company and the candidate's education, training, and/or experience


Desired Qualifications


* Demonstrated ability to apply advanced statistical techniques relevant to environmental analysis
* Experience interpreting and using field and laboratory analytical data.
* Experience with site characterization, risk assessment, or remediation projects
* Experience interpreting and reporting complex data to technical and non-technical audiences
* Experience with technical writing of environmental reports/documents including field sampling and analysis plans.


Compensation & Benefits


In accordance with the CPCCo salary determination process, CPCCo takes into consideration the level of assigned job duties and responsibilities, and the candidate's education, training, and/or experience relative to internal peers and the external labor market. CPCCo will not solicit salary history for candidates.

Expected annualized pay range based on full time schedule (40 hours per week):

* Career Level Grade 18: $94,750 - $151,800
* Career Level Grade 19: $104,200 - $166,650

In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for variable pay awards.

CPCCo's generous benefits package offers medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, 401(k) employer match and paid time off. For a full list of benefits please see https://cpcco.hanford.gov/page.cfm/Careers

A few benefits/perks you can anticipate, depending on the nature of your employment with CPCCo, include the following:
* A casual-dress work environment, where jeans are a regular thing.
* A standard 4-10's work schedule that allows for long weekends and recharging on the Columbia River, on a golf course, at 200+ surrounding wineries, or at other Pacific Northwest destinations where fishing, hunting, snowboarding, hiking, and other outdoor sporting opportunities are in abundance.

CPCCo is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.