Geomega, Inc. provides consulting and project management services offering creative, cutting edge solutions to complex environmental problems. Principal clients range from regional to large multi-national mining, energy, and petro-chemical companies. Geomega, Inc. provides its private sector client base with time and mission-critical environmental permitting, geochemical and hydrogeologic characterization and modeling, environmental impact analyses, and litigation support.

Geomega, Inc. is seeking a mid-level geoscientist to be a core player in our practice of data-driven environmental analytics. The geoscientist will support especially our mining and energy sector client needs, as well as general hydrology, remediation, and litigation projects. A range of skills is required including geostatistics, deterministic 3D geologic modeling and 3D visualization, geoscience database compilation, as well as custom script development for analyses of large data sets. The successful candidate will strive for workflow automation and reproducibility. The geoscientist will be expected to readily shift and translate skills between multiple projects. For example, typical challenges may include characterizing waste rock from a mining project hosted in a pre-Cambrian formation, to describing the heterogeneities within quaternary gravels that host a decade-old hydrocarbon plume, both utilizing analytical data and modeling across traditional scientific disciplines. A background that includes work within the private sector is favored, including fieldwork associated with exploration or environmental drilling.

Responsibilities

•  Characterize earth volumes in terms of physical or chemical properties, including estimates of uncertainty

• Contextualize a wide variety of data with an understanding of data quality and QA/QC procedures

• Interface and collaborate with Geochemists, Hydrogeologists and other domain experts to provide summary analysis or quantitative input for their project needs

• Provide defensible data analyses for client and regulatory agency presentation

• Write professional reports describing site conditions, as well as the decisions, processes, and conclusions around management recommendations/design supporting graphics

• Support ad-hoc scientific analysis across the company as needed

• Safely perform occasional field-related duties in remote locations, including environmental sample acquisition, testing, and data collection

Skills and Tools

• Geologic modeling and visualization; preferred software tools include Leapfrog3D, Vulcan or EVS/MVS

• Geostatistics in 3D, both kriging and simulation type methodologies and visualization; preferred tools include SGeMS or GSLIB

• Programmatic data handling and scientific analysis, reproducible workflow automation. Comfort writing moderately complex SQL queries. Must be able to creatively and efficiently visualize often multivariate data. Preferred code language competency includes Python and/or R

  • GIS. Experience with ArcGIS (preferred: ESRI Spatial and Geostatistical Analyst extensions) as well as open source GIS applications and libraries. Must be able to script workflows (preferred: ArcPy) as well as perform customize spatial analyses (e.g. PostGIS, JTS, Shapely).

Experience

• Required: minimum 3 years professional experience and Bachelor’s degree in related field

• Preferred: 5 years professional experience, Master’s degree in Geology with emphasis in Geostatistics, or Master’s degree in Geologic or Mining Engineering. Field experience (mining, drilling, exploration, mapping, data collection, etc.) will be considered a significant bonus.

Salary dependent on previous experience.

Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, we offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package. In addition, members of the Geomega team enjoy a friendly, collaborative, and innovative work environment.

In order to be considered for this position, candidates must be currently eligible for employment status in the U.S. and possess a valid driver’s license.  A pre-employment physical including a drug screen and background check is a hiring requirement.

Geomega, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.