Biologist

Based in San Francisco, Oakland, or Sacramento, CA you’ll have the opportunity to perform both field and office work related to your particular expertise and work with our team’s recognized experts in characterizing, evaluating, and minimizing proposed projects’ effects on natural resources. Your work could include baseline rare plant surveys, wetland delineations, habitat characterization, or protocol wildlife species surveys as appropriate to your background and interests. You will have the opportunity to work on environmental compliance across large projects, and lead restoration and mitigation planning projects. You’ll serve as a key team member building upon your experience, leading teams, and mentoring others. You’ll be challenged as you support multiple projects, including renewable energy, dynamic energy, transportation, water, and sustainability and resilience projects.

At Jacobs, we’re partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you’ll commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

Our “Future of Work” approach will offer you the opportunity to spend time working both in the office, time working from home, and in the field. We want you to be empowered to deliver the boldest solutions for everyday living so explore us!

Bring your enthusiasm and desire to conserve our natural resources, and we’ll help you grow what drives you.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Environmental Science, Ecology, or similar discipline

• Progressively responsible work history in biology or similar experience

• Experience leading and serving on teams of biologists assessing habitats for special status species and/or wetlands

• Experience leading resource and impact evaluations and endangered species consultations.

• Demonstrated experience with preparation of state and federal resource agency permitting documents and other technical reports.

• Experience with fostering relationships with large project teams, client, client’s contractors and regulatory agency staff.

• Ability to travel and work in the field.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Master’s degree or other graduate degree is preferred

• Possession of a state [Scientific Collecting/MOU] or federal permit [10(a)1(A)] for listed species or Professional Wetland Scientist certification is preferred

• Interest and experience with project management and preparing proposals.

• OSHA 10-hr Construction Safety Training