Help Wanted: A3 Environmental Consultants

About A3 Environmental Consultants

A3 Environmental, LLC (A3E) is a full-service, woman-owned, small business specializing in providing quality environmental services. Our clients include private entities, federal, state, and local government organizations. We perform due diligence, site assessments, and remediation across the United States. We are nimble. We offer turnkey solutions to the environmental concerns encountered in today’s complex regulatory environment. We work hard and quickly, paying attention to the details so you have the answers you need, when you need them, with results you can trust.

Our philosophy, with every project, is to deeply understand our client’s needs. This understanding allows A3E to develop a detailed scope of services within our proposal to meet or exceed your goals and objectives. We treat each relationship as a partnership where the strategic expertise and experience of our managers help clients anticipate and overcome planning, resource management, and regulatory hurdles. As the project progresses, we maintain constant contact with our client and the team to ensure your project is done to your satisfaction and within your timeframe.

We appreciate our clients and the opportunities they present to make a cleaner environment and keep our planet healthy. We believe the work we do is more than a job; it’s a calling.

Entry Level Environmental Consultant(s):

If you are straight out of college with a geology, environmental engineering or environmental science degree we want to talk with you. Our current opportunities include:

• Environmental Due Diligence

  • This is a report-writing heavy opportunity. A due diligence professional is like a detective for a property. If you like historical research and advising clients on the best way forward when purchasing commercial property, this might be the opportunity for you.

• Environmental Field Work

  • If you want to be outside, rarely in an office, this is the job for you. We sample contaminated wells, contaminated soil and oversee construction crews to keep them in compliance with the law.

• START Program – Emergency Response

  • If you say you’d like to be outside but don’t want to get bored working in just the Chicagoland area, our emergency response department might be for you. We will ship you all over the the midwest. You could stay in a hotel for weeks. You’ll get paid more than the vast majority of your peers entering the environmental field. You will learn more, faster, and be more valuable in your career if you start out in emergency response.

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Mid & Advanced Level Environmental Consultants(s)

• Wetland Delineator / Ecologist

  • The right person for this job has enough experience to qualify to be a certified wetland delineator in Kane, DuPage, Lake and McHenry county Illinois. You should be able to quote a project, do the project and write the report without supervision. You should know enough to teach the craft to newly hired staff, generally graduates right out of college.

• Mid Level Environmental Consultant

  • The right person for this job is able to manage multiple jobs simultaneously and is able to take on field work while doing so. As a Mid-Level Environmental Consultant, you should have familiarity with IEPA regulatory programs such as LUST and SRP, with a solid understanding of TACO (and not just on Tuesdays). A person in this position should know that environmental consulting is about more than science, it’s about building a personal relationship with a client and keeping them updated and informed on a project. And having the integrity to admit mistakes when they happen. We’re looking for a person who is able to receive a call, email, or text from a Client or colleague and respond promptly.
     
    This person should be adaptable, communicative, and be able to hold themselves accountable for their responsibilities. When given a project, the attitude of this person should be: “I got this.” And from there, your team should implicitly trust you. When faced with a problem on a project, this person doesn’t shy away from seeking help. No arrogance or overconfidence.  Only a desire to do right by your colleagues, your client, and A3E. We seriously do not have time for people with egos or people who hold themselves above everyone else because of whatever thing they invented in their own head. During your time at A3E, this person will actively look for opportunities to teach younger staff how to do things and stay humble enough to know you don’t know everything.
     
    A3E employees all have their specialties and responsibilities. But they all wear many hats. While a person in this position has a speciality, they are flexible in what they can do and are eager to learn more. A3E is a company that always looks for opportunities to grow. If you have experience in something that we do not do, then talk to your colleagues and find a way to make it happen. Alisa Allen, A.K.A. “Boss Lady” values everyone’s input. If you have an idea, then pitch it. If you find an opportunity to expand our capabilities, then you get style points. Double style points if you are able to do the research yourself and make it happen. If you demonstrate knowledge of something outside of A3E’s current capabilities during your interview and have a plan on how to implement it, then you’re going to get a lot of attention from us. Because you’ve already shown that you’re self motivated and have enough of an attention span to have read this page.
    You should belong to an industry organization or trade group. You should have, or be working hard, on some kind of credential. You should have read our “About Us” page and it should strike a chord with your soul. A3E’s vision is to stand apart from other environmental consultants. Both from a work-life balance standpoint and a Client interfacing one. Be prepared to explain why our values align with yours. Don’t try to fake sincerity. A3E is full of professionals who came from other companies that have either jaded us or taught us valuable lessons on what not to do. That’s why we are all here. To be better than them. To put it plainly, we can sniff out insincerity a mile away. If you fool us, then congrats. You’re a monster.
    We try our hardest to not bother you after hours, but the industry we are in does demand much of us. If you want a typical 8 hour a day schedule, this is not the job for you. Field season can be chaotic and sometimes stressful. A person in this position will be willing to work late (we pay for overtime, don’t worry) and when they can, look for ways to alleviate their colleagues’ stress levels. This is a professional workplace where we all respect one another’s time and lives. This means being willing to push yourself to help out your team.

• Mid Level Environmental Engineer

  • We are on the lookout for the right environmental engineer(s) who are looking to make a big impact on a small (but growing) company. The right engineer for this position is someone with at least 5 years of experience in environmental engineering and is someone who is self motivated enough to take on the responsibility of growing our company. If you are the kind of engineer that does not like to go into the field, you’re not the right person for this job. If you don’t like to get dirty, then you’re not the right person for this job. If you’re not hands-on or aren’t able to explain what you do or how you do it without confusing someone, then you’re not the right person for this job and likely don’t know what you’re doing anyway.
    The most obvious way to not be right for this job is if the thought of going to a networking event and speaking with random strangers and potential clients makes you want to refill a Xanax prescription. We are looking for someone who can work as a team and will value and respect the vast knowledge of the many geologists and environmental scientists on staff. You should have the experience necessary to sit for the P.E. exam or already have your P.E. license. You should have some demonstraightable business development skills and experience with landing new clients or contractors for your current or past employers. You should have demonstrated some kind of leadership of a team, even better if the team picked you to be the leader. We don’t care if it was in the boy scouts, high school football, or a cheerleading squad. You should be well read, well written and have something to show us regarding your writing skills and technical skills.

    You should find engineering jokes amusing and be able to tell a handful of them at a moment’s notice. People should laugh. You should be able to tell a story to strangers with a beginning, middle, climax and resolution that either ends in a punchline or a point. For all this talk about leadership, you should have the humility to work on a team that is led by someone who is not you and is definitely not an engineer. While I shouldn’t have to say this in 2024, you should have no issues taking direction and or criticism from women, men, minorities, majorities, or space aliens from the planet zorb (although I hear they have all been hired by AECOM).

• Advanced Level Environmental Engineer
  • Everything described above and; has a PE, can demonstrate leadership skills, has no fear of business development, and can articulate industries, vertical markets and clients who are underserved and who could be potential clients.

Industrial Hygienist – Asbestos, Lead, Mold Inspector

Candidate Requirements (Licensed Asbestos inspector in Illinois) Looking for an individual with 1-5 years of industrial hygiene experience to include asbestos (required) and lead and mold sampling (not required but preferred).

● Licensed asbestos inspector
● Licensed lead inspector (not required but preferred)
● Licensed air sampler – Niosh 582 (not required but preferred)
● Mold sampling experience to include air and tape lift assessments (not required but preferred)
● Asbestos project manager’s license (not required but preferred)

Project management experience including building inspection, reviewing building plans, proposal writing including cost estimation, performing abatement oversight, coordinating abatement bid walks, project management. Performs field inspection activities required for the project including bulk sampling for asbestos. Report writing including sample location and positive location diagrams submitted to CAD for drafting. Uses and maintains inspection field equipment. Maintains licenses and refresher required by state regulations.

Able to work independently in the field with little supervision. Must be able to perform other field activities while waiting for asbestos projects to supplement employment such as: hazardous materials surveys (identifying hazardous building components or other materials that need to be identified, quantified and cost estimated prior to building renovation or demolition); various field oversight duties such as signing manifests associated with soil removal, simple field sampling to include testing of soil for pH or obtaining a surface or groundwater sample (these field activities do not require prior experience and are required of all field employees at A3E).

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Help Wanted – Career Track Jobs

We are always looking for good talent and are interested to know if you’re looking for a new challenge. If you want a job with us the qualities we look for are:

• • Superior technical ability.
  • Excellent writing skills. Everything we do ends with a well written technical report.
  • Amazing organization skills.
  • The ability to work on more than one project at a time.
  • Time management skills. Timesheets are a fact of life here.
  • Type A personality. We like people that are uptight about making deadlines and doing things correctly.
  • No fear of talking to strangers, on the phone or in person.
  • Works as a team. You can’t horde work, you can’t think you know it all.
  • Willingness to learn, teach, give and take constructive criticism.
  • Persistence & Tenacity

How to Apply

Send resume to: Tim@A3E.com

Follow up with a phone call. Tim (630) 507-9014

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The best candidates will know something about what we do and will be able to speak intelligently about our services even if they have never done it before. There’s plenty of information on this website. I would know what a Phase I ESA is, who buys them and something about how they are done. I would also read up about A3E on our social media sites.