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title: Environmental Scientist / Geologist / Engineer
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| **Company** | [Arcadis](https://www.foundrole.com/companies/arcadis?utm_source=ai_markdown) |
| **Location** | Durham, NC |
| **Salary** | $68.2K/yr - $112.5K/yr |
| **Posted** | Nov 14, 2026 |

## Is this job real?

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## Visa sponsorship

- **H-1B:** Arcadis sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 167 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4).
- **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Arcadis.

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## Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

**Role description:**

Arcadis is seeking a Staff Environmental Scientist/Geologist/Engineer to join our Treatability Laboratory team in the Durham, North Carolina office.

As a member of Arcadis’ Treatability Lab team, you’ll play a key role in the development, selection, and optimization of innovative remedies for environmental contaminants present in soil, groundwater, sediment and wastewater. Drawing on your background in environmental science, you’ll work side-by-side with lab scientists with decades of experience as we collaborate with Arcadis’ extensive network of subject matter experts (SMEs).

The Arcadis Treatability Lab is a unique entity across the environmental remediation workspace with a span of nearly 35 years of consistent service for Arcadis’ commercial and federal clients across a wide range of environmental remedies spanning multiple impacted media. The Treatability Lab develops, optimizes and assists in the implementation of a wide range of environmental remediation technologies for a long list of environmental contaminants while partnering with some of the world’s most experienced and innovative SMEs. Treatability Lab staff advance Arcadis’ competitive edge in the environmental remediation market by understanding a long list of emerging contaminants and the Treatability Lab is engaged in some of the most challenging projects in our industry. We are committed to sharing expertise and institutional knowledge across diverse practice areas with our junior staff, fostering their development into the next generation of environmental leaders. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

**Role accountabilities:**

Your core duties will include:

- Work with Treatability Lab team members, SMEs, and project teams to design, price and implement customized, scientifically sound treatability studies.
- Guide project teams to successfully and safely ship large, complex soil and water samples from field sites.
- Learn to manage a dynamic workload with multiple ongoing priorities while working on multidisciplinary project teams to achieve successful experimental outcomes.
- Laboratory bench work will include experimental setup, maintenance and sampling, preparation of stock solutions and reagents, performance of titrations, dilutions, centrifugation, and filtration of samples, and the fabrication and operation of custom bench scale treatment systems,
- Office work will include treatability study coordination, data analysis, proposal development and costing, health & safety, report writing, presentation of experimental results during internal and external meetings, project strategy development, schedule and budget management, and other project documentation.
- Draft emails, work plans, technical reports, letters, and memoranda documenting planning and execution of laboratory treatability studies.
- You will assist project managers with preparing subcontracts and overseeing subcontractors, including development of subcontractor scopes of work and authorizations, development of agreements with subcontractors and service providers, and management of project budgets and timelines to support delivery of the planned scope within the established budget.

To be successful in this role, you should possess strong written and oral communication skills, be self-motivated, and exhibit independent thinking. You should be able to work effectively and efficiently in a team setting as well as independently. Successful candidates will demonstrate their ability to be adaptable, creative problem solvers who can work collaboratively as a team member. Your awareness and proactive communication are essential to ensuring project productivity and ensuring a safe environment for everyone.

This position encompasses both hands-on work in the laboratory and office work including implementation of the scientific method, data analysis, task management, report preparation, and internal client communications.

**Qualifications & Experience:**

**Required:**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate area of geology/environmental science/engineering.
- 4 or more years' relevant experience in environmental consulting.
- Working knowledge to remedies for soil and groundwater contaminants including petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, PFAS, and other emerging contaminants.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

**Valued:**

- Demonstrated experience working in a laboratory. Past educational programs and work experience will be considered,
- Proper etiquette for recording information in a laboratory notebook,
- Experience manifesting soil and water for proper disposal,
- Scientific publications.

**Preferred:**

- Masters and/or PHD

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $68,183 - $112,508. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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## Skills

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- Mental Health
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- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
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- Parental Leave
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