Environmental Scientist II
Bureau of Environmental Sciences
Job Summary:
This is professional work performing data collection and data management functions and assisting senior project scientists in environmental restoration and environmental management projects.
Job duties include:
- This is a leadership role in directing and participating in field work associated with ecological projects being conducted throughout the District. Duties include preparing equipment necessary to conduct fieldwork, driving trucks, boats, and airboats to access sampling areas, collecting/recording data, and monitoring submersed aquatic vegetation.
- Serve as data manager responsible for QA and data entry for ecological data into District databases. Duties may also include conducting data analysis, conducting literature searches, technical writing and editing, contract management, preparing technical presentations, and drafting tables and figures for technical reports and publications.
- Assist staff with other ecological projects as necessary.
Minimum Qualifications:
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in biology, limnology, chemistry, botany, zoology, or a field directly related to natural resource management and two years professional experience in the environmental field.
Professional experience in an environmental field can substitute on a year-for-year basis for the required college education.
SJRWMD has determined this to be a mandatory-testing position as described in Section 440.102, Florida Statutes. Any offer of employment for a mandatory-testing position will be contingent upon successfully passing a drug screening paid by SJRWMD. The SJRWMD Drug Free Workplace Policy is available for review in the Careers section at www.sjrwmd.com
Skilled In:
Experience towing and driving boats; competent in use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other analytical software. Basic knowledge of ArcGIS. R programming helpful but not required.
Physical Requirements/Working Environment:
Time split between the office environment and fieldwork. Endure harsh outdoor environments in uncomfortable/extreme temperatures for any and all activities, inclement weather, and remote locations; lift and/or move equipment; operate or learn to operate vehicles/vessels to access sites (e.g. outboard motorboats, four-wheel drive trucks, airboats, ATVs, Marsh Master).
Operation of boats, trucks and trailers may occur in all weather conditions; Scheduling may involve tight deadlines.
Expectations: Maintain a priority of safety, data integrity, good communication, working well with others as a team; make effective, consistent, and defensible decisions in the field.
Licenses:
Valid State of Florida Driver’s License.
Additional Details:
Starting Salary Range: $50,065.60 – $62,587.20
Starting salary is based on qualifications and experience.
Benefits include Florida Retirement System, health insurance, parental leave, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, paid leave and holidays, professional development, wellness program and eligible for public service student loan forgiveness program.
Your application will receive careful consideration, and if selected for an interview, you will be contacted to schedule an appointment. St. Johns River Water Management District participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is an internet-based system that allows businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.
Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of such service members and veterans will receive preference in employment and are encouraged to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Veterans’ Preference/Drug-Free and Tobacco-Free Workplace
Location: Palatka
Closing Date: December 4, 2025
