Career Opportunities
Forest Biometrician
(Washington, DC)
First Environment is looking for an experienced Forest Biometrician to join our team in Washington, DC. A major focus of the Washington, DC office practice includes climate change, energy efficiency, and emerging environmental markets, including voluntary and compliance markets for forest carbon offset project consulting, validation and verification services.
Responsibilities for this position include:
- Forest carbon project validation and verification
- Project management
- Promotion of First Environment’s environmental markets management practice
- Proposal development and management
- Forest carbon project feasibility assessment
- Development of project design documents
Position Requirements include:
- Undergraduate degree in forest management with an advanced degree in forest biometrics or equivalent.
- 5+ years' experience and expertise in several of the following areas:
- Forest growth and yield modeling;
- Silviculture practices and modeling;
- Forest management planning and harvest scheduling;
- Forest inventory design and compilation;
- Verification of forest carbon projects;
- Forest carbon project protocol development;
- Forest carbon project development.
- Ability to communicate technical information effectively, both orally and in writing
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated marketing and business development capabilities
- Strong leadership skills, outgoing nature, and ability to connect within a large network preferred.
- Team player with a high degree of self motivation
- Travel 50% of the time
- Spanish fluency a plus
- Certified Forester (CF) designation a plus
First Environment is a member of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, where the president of our firm serves as chairman of its board. First Environment is a charter member of the U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders program and the first to achieve carbon neutrality. Our company was recently named the “Best Verification Company in North American Mandatory Markets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. First Environment also maintains a membership in the International Emission Trading Association. First Environment became the first US environmental engineering and consulting firm registered to the ISO 14001 Standard in 1997.
First Environment is a member of the Forest Climate Working Group, and the Bi-national Forest Carbon Standards Committee.
First Environment offers a professional and dynamic work environment with growth opportunities. We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical, dental, Short Term Disability, LTD, Life Insurance and 401K Plan.
Please send your résumé by mail, fax or e-mail to:
First Environment, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources Manager
91 Fulton Street
Boonton, NJ 07005
Fax: 973-334-0928
E-Mail: ljg@firstenvironment.com
