Launch your environmental consulting career with a global sustainability leader.

ERM is seeking a Consulting Associate, Scientist or Engineer to join our growing team in Irvine, California.

Why This Role Matters?

In this early-career role, you will work alongside experienced Project Managers, technical experts, and Partners to support environmental consulting projects throughout Southern California. This position offers hands-on exposure to environmental due diligence, compliance, site investigations, and sustainability services while building the technical and project management skills needed for a successful consulting career.

What Your Impact Is:

As a Consulting Associate, you will help clients navigate complex environmental and sustainability challenges while supporting projects that protect human health, the environment, and business operations. Working closely with ERM's multidisciplinary teams, you will gain valuable field and office experience across a wide range of environmental consulting services.

What You'll Bring:

Required

Bachelor in environmental science, engineering (civil, environmental, mechanical), or related discipline.
0+ years of relevant experience; internships and academic research will be considered.
Capable of thriving in a consulting environment that requires the ability to simultaneously handle multiple project assignments and meet strict deadlines.
Proficient at multi-tasking, maintaining flexibility, and developing the ability to work independently.
Ability to travel locally across Southern California (Orange County, Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Riverside, etc.), and occasional overnight traveling based on business needs.
Ability to perform outdoor field work in various weather conditions, and lift up to 50 lbs.
Enthusiastic and driven with the ability to be agile and innovative.
Appetite for learning new digital tools and applications.
Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, and analytical skills, with experience recording technical data and preparing reports.
Dependable, with integrity, respect, a positive outlook, and a strong client focus.
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.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Preferred

40-hour HAZWOPER training (or willingness to obtain it).
Familiarity with California regulatory agencies including DTSC, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, and SCAQMD.
Working knowledge of CEQA requirements.
GIS experience.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Drafting Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) reports, including site reconnaissance, historical records review, and regulatory database research in accordance with ASTM E1527-21.
Providing technical assistance on environmental compliance, management systems, and due diligence transaction projects.
Supporting environmental due diligence and site investigations, including field work such as site inspections and soil, groundwater, and soil vapor sampling.
Assisting clients with environmental compliance and permitting across air, water, waste, and hazardous materials regulatory programs.
Compiling, managing, and analyzing environmental data, and preparing tables, figures, and technical reports.
Supporting environmental, health, and safety (EHS) audits and sustainability initiatives, including emissions inventories and regulatory reporting.

For the Consulting Associate, Scientist or Engineer position, the anticipated annual base pay is $70,304 -$81,400 (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 paysubject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

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

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.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!

About Us

At ERM, sustainability is our business.

We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance.

ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.

Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor.

Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it).

Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.

Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world.

We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth.

At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

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