Title: Principal Risk Assessor
Location: Houston office (Hybrid for any TX or LA resident)
Job Type: Regular Full-time (40 hrs)
What's the Opportunity?
Anchor QEA is seeking a full-time risk assessor to support and advance our national operations with an emphasis on Texas and Louisiana. Qualified candidates will have an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in biology, toxicology, or related field and at least 20 yrs. experience in human health toxicology, aquatic ecological toxicology, and risk assessments. This position will involve a balance of technical leadership, project management, business development, and staff mentoring. Project opportunities are expected to include risk assessments associated with contaminated sites, remediation, restoration, sediment characterization, emerging contaminants, impingement and entrainment studies, and biological effects of wastewater discharges.
Responsibilities:
The position will manage and provide technical oversight to risk assessments and site investigation activities including: development of risk assessment work plans and conceptual site models, negotiation with regulatory agencies on such work plans, direction of field data collection to support risk assessments, toxicity assessments, data analysis, conducting and reporting of risk assessments, and developing risk management strategies for our clients. Project work will also include risk-adjacent efforts, including sediment characterization for dredging and the beneficial use of dredged material projects, bioavailability and bioaccumulation analyses, benthic community assessments, natural resource damage assessments, and preliminary remediation goal determination.
Successful candidates will have experience with project management, client interaction, and agency interaction. The position will also participate in business development activities related to risk assessments, site investigations, remediation, and restoration. As a technical leader, the successful candidate will also be responsible for mentoring staff, growing our capacity to win work, and positioning Anchor QEA to take advantage of future industry trends.
What Are We Looking For?
Ideal candidates will have the following:
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree in biology, toxicology, or related field
- 20+ years of professional experience in consulting, industry, or governmental agencies
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Creates strong morale on team through a culture of trust
- Possesses a keen understanding of the business, industry trends, and competitive landscape
- Makes prompt, clear, and sound decisions that may involve tough choices or risks
- Creates a culture of support, engagement, and collaboration for teams they lead
- Provides all staff with development opportunities and coaching
- Proven record of winning work
- Leadership and project management experience on high profile risk assessment and ecotoxicology projects
- Experience with impingement and entrainment regulations, wastewater discharge permitting, bioaccumulation, and wetland delineation and restoration
- Participation in professional organizations such as the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Expertise demonstrated by presentations, publications, awards, expert testimony, teaching, or other leadership roles
What Can You Expect?
A collaborative work environment where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic self. We offer competitive compensation and benefits. Benefits detailed below.
Who Are We?
Anchor QEA provides environmental planning, science, and engineering consulting services with the mission of transforming our environment and communities with integrity and vibe. With more than 500 people in offices across the United States, our collective vision is to be an inclusive, sustainable, and growing environmental innovator making generational impacts. By embodying our core values, we strive to be our clients' first choice for solving their most challenging problems and to be our employees' reason to be excited about going to work each morning. Learn more about Anchor QEA at
How to Apply?
Apply online through Anchor QEA's Open Positions page at Veterans are encouraged to apply.
Additional Information
We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, Anchor QEA is committed to a diverse, multi-cultural work environment. Anchor QEA does not discriminate in employment based on age, race, creed, gender, religion, marital status, veteran's status, national origin, disability or sexual orientation. Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a comprehensive background check.
Base Level Benefits for Regular Full-Time Positions:
- Healthcare: Medical, dental, vision, basic life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability programs.
- Paid Company and Floating Holidays: 7 paid company and 2 floating holidays annually
- Vacation: 3 weeks accrued paid vacation based on length of service. Vacation may vary by level.
- Sick and Safe Time: 80 hours annually
- Retirement Plan: 401k plan with an employer match
- Further information on benefits:
Employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a comprehensive background check.