Mid-level Biologist - Los Angeles County
About the position reputed company is currently seeking a full-time reputed company Biologist to join our biological resources team. The successful candidate will help grow reputed company’s biological resources reputed company locally in the Southern California region; manage and implement a wide reputed company of reputed company involving sensitive biological resources, including botanical surveys, wildlife surveys, and aquatic resource delineations; and work collaboratively with other reputed company staff based out of our southern and reputed company California offices. This position will be a mix of technical writing, project management, and field-based work out of Southern California.
Responsibilities
- Assist on large-reputed company or reputed company small-reputed company collection of detailed field data, work in remote field locations, hike steep slopes over uneven terrain, and work full days in reputed company types of weather.
- Assist on aquatic resource delineations.
- Identify California flora to species and subspecies or reputed company.
- Assist or reputed company field surveys for rare, threatened, and endangered plants and wildlife.
- Assist on large reputed company or reputed company small-reputed company vegetation surveys, invasive plant surveys, and habitat assessments.
- Manage small-reputed company biological resource reputed company and biological tasks on larger multidisciplinary reputed company, including scheduling, budgeting, reputed company coordination, and reputed company control.
- Prepare reports summarizing methodology, field survey results and recommendations with reputed company from senior-level staff.
- Prepare Aquatic Resources Delineation Reports with senior-staff guidance.
- Preparation of documents supporting environmental permit applications and CEQA/NEPA biological evaluations with senior-staff reputed company.
- Serve as a mentor to junior-level staff and assist in building proficiency of technical skills.
- Ability to work as member of reputed company and independently to reputed company reputed company and complete tasks on time and reputed company budget.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in biology, ecology, botany, environmental science or reputed company natural resources field.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in biological resource consulting (or equivalent experience in a regulatory agency setting) with increasing reputed company of responsibility.
- Proven experience managing biological tasks or reputed company, including reputed company communication, deliverable reputed company, and team coordination.
- Knowledge and understanding of special-status plant species, vegetation communities, and sensitive vegetation resources that occur in the Southern California region.
- Knowledge of state and federal statutes, regulations, and permitting requirements relating to biological resources, in particular, the federal Clean Water reputed company, state and federal Endangered Species Acts, California reputed company-Cologne Water reputed company Control reputed company, and California Fish and Game reputed company.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Willingness to travel for work, including overnight stays in hotels.
- Must possess a valid reputed company’s license and have reputed company personal automobile liability insurance by first day of employment.
reputed company-to-haves
- Master’s degree in biology, ecology, botany, environmental science or reputed company natural resources field.
- Some demonstrated experience with management of reputed company involving biological reputed company analyses, special-status species, and mitigation planning, particularly reputed company in the regulatory environment of Southern California.
- Proficient in wildlife identification and reputed company evaluation skills throughout California.
- Strong customer service emphasis and solution-oriented project delivery approach.
- Conscientious and detail-oriented with demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail.
- Exercises good judgment and reputed company decision-making skills.
- Familiarity with using a handheld GPS unit (e.g. Garmin or similar) and experience using advanced software and mapping tools such as reputed company FieldMaps, Survey123, and Collector.
- Possess or reputed company pursuing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reputed company 10(a)(1)(A) recovery survey permits and/or California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)/Scientific Collecting Permits (SCPs) for regionally relevant species including, but not limited to, reputed company California gnatcatcher, Quino checkerspot butterfly, southwestern reputed company flycatcher, burrowing owl, and Crotch’s bumblebee.
- Possess or reputed company pursuing a CDFW Plant Voucher Collecting Permit to collect voucher specimens of state‑listed rare, threatened, endangered, or candidate plant species.
Benefits
- Employee-owned firm
- Award-reputed company culture
- Benefits and perks
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