Job Details
Job Location: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Petaluma (Bay Area) – _, CA
Position Type: Full-Time
Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree
ESA seeks a highly motivated Field Hydrologist/Hydrographer or Land Surveyor to join our team of hydrologists, geomorphologists, ecologists, and engineers in the Northern California region. We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic team member with approximately 4–8 years of work experience, a passion for ecosystem restoration and working outdoors, and the desire to learn and grow.
Who We Are
We are a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm who values diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that our variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions, which fosters our continued success for our employee-owners and clients.
Who You Are
You are interested in stream and/or wetland ecology, geomorphology, and hydrology and have education, training, or work experience in one or more of these areas. You enjoy working outdoors, and you have professional experience in scientific data collection and quality control (possibly including topographic and/or bathymetric surveying, sidescan sonar, stream gauging, sediment studies, water quality monitoring and sampling, or other related skills). You are comfortable working in and around water, and you have experience working with tools and on boats. The ideal candidate has extensive professional experience collecting and working with topographic and/or bathymetric survey data and has project management experience.
You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering, Land Surveying, or Hydrology and 4–8 years applicable work experience or a Master’s degree with directly relevant qualifications. Land Surveyor in Training (LSIT) or Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) license is a plus.
You are an effective team member with excellent oral and writing skills who can work independently and collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary environment. You can communicate basic technical information clearly and concisely to individuals and small groups.
What You Will Do for ESA
Support field data collection, quality control, and analysis for ecosystem restoration, flood management, fish passage, erosion control, wave studies, stormwater management, and other water resources and civil environmental engineering projects under direct supervision of a more senior engineer or hydrologist.
You will install and maintain water property and water quality instrumentation, conduct topographic and bathymetric surveys, conduct geomorphic, discharge, sediment transport, and wave studies, and perform construction and post-construction monitoring activities. You will apply MATLAB, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Leica Infinity, and other tools to process data, develop basemaps, evaluate discharge, tide, and water quality conditions, monitor channel and vegetation development, calculate sedimentation rates, write technical reports, and other tasks. You will develop and adhere to data collection protocols. You will work at your desk and outdoors – on the coast, in estuaries and salt marshes, in streams and rivers, and on boats. Project management experience is a plus.
A typical week may consist of deploying water level gauges in a tidal marsh, surveying creek transects, and processing and presenting field data for scientific and engineering reports. You will coordinate staffing, manage schedules, and meet project deadlines.
While consistently demonstrating your solid data collection, analysis, and writing skills, you thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and are able to balance multiple responsibilities and deadlines, both when working on a team or independently.
You are near San Francisco, Oakland, Petaluma, Sacramento, or San Jose.
ESA has established multiple pay ranges tailored to the economic factors in the geographies in which ESA staff reside. For this position the range is $76,637 – $111,124 annually based on our anticipated hiring locations as noted in the above job details. Actual compensation is determined by a number of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, skills, and the city in which the applicant lives.
What’s Special About ESA
Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places.
At ESA, we provide benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), annual allocations of company shares through our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few.
We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.
What’s Special About Our Environmental Hydrology and Design Team in our Bay Area Offices
Our EH&D team includes engineers, engineers, hydrologists, geomorphologists and landscape architects. Much of our work is oriented toward the restoration of habitat and ecosystem function, often as part of multi-benefit projects. As a highly-integrated team, we value creative thinking, teamwork, and multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary engagement and integration.
To read about some of our exciting projects, check out these links Dutch Slough, Yuba River Canyon, Napa River Restoration and Giant Marsh.
In accordance with ESA’s duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation.
ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOE M/V/F/D)
