Consulting Associate, Environmental Geology/Science/Engineering

Ready to launch your environmental career with real, hands-on impact from day one?

Join a global sustainability leader where you’ll work alongside industry experts, build technical depth, and gain the field experience you need to grow into a registered professional. At ERM, your work won’t sit on the sidelines—you’ll be out in the field, solving real problems and helping clients create a more sustainable future.

Why This Role Matters

ERM’s Great Lakes & Northeast Business Unit is growing, and we’re looking for a motivated, detail‑oriented Consulting Associate, Environmental Geology/Science/Engineering in Boston, MA to support impactful site investigation, remediation, and hazardous waste management projects.

In this role, you’ll contribute to protecting communities, restoring impacted environments, and ensuring safe, sustainable land use across the region—and occasionally across the U.S. or globally. You’ll also have opportunities to collaborate across ERM’s full suite of services, expanding your skill set and career path.

What Your Impact Is

• Supporting environmental investigations that help clients understand and reduce risk.

• Conducting field sampling and site characterization to inform remediation and compliance decisions.

• Helping deliver environmental solutions that improve land, water, and community health.

• Ensuring projects meet regulatory standards while upholding ERM’s commitment to safety and quality.

• Providing reliable data and insights that drive technical reports, client deliverables, and regulatory submissions.

What You’ll Bring

Required

• BS in geology, hydrogeology, environmental science, or environmental engineering (or 8+ years of relevant experience).

• Recent graduate to 2 years of experience, including willingness/interest in field assignments. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to document detailed technical data.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across project teams.

• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem‑solving aptitude.

• Ability to manage multiple assignments while meeting deadlines in a consulting-paced environment.

• Commitment to safety and adherence to established Health & Safety protocols.

• Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.

• Willingness to travel regionally up to 75% (with overnights) and perform 25% office-based work.

• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Preferred

• Prior environmental field experience.

• 40-hour OSHA HAZWOPER certification.

• Mechanical aptitude and hands‑on troubleshooting skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct field work, including:

  • Soil, sediment, groundwater, surface water, waste, and building material sampling.

  • Aquifer testing, drilling oversight, soil logging, and well installation.

  • Monitoring well development, purging, sampling, and construction oversight.

• Coordinate and direct subcontractors such as drillers, surveyors, and laboratories.

• Support environmental remediation and demolition projects, including system operations and maintenance.

• Compile, analyze, and interpret environmental datasets (soil, groundwater, air, sediment, etc.).

• Prepare technical figures, exhibits, and reports for regulatory submittals.

• Review groundwater chemistry data to support environmental assessments and reporting.

• Perform Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments for property transactions.

• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations.

• Manage work within defined scopes, schedules, budgets, and quality expectations.

• Communicate effectively with subcontractors, regulatory agencies, tenants, and clients during field activities.

For the Consulting Associate, Environmental Geology/Science/Engineering position, the anticipated annual base pay is $66,081– $81,353 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

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Thank you for your interest in ERM!

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