Joining Terracon as an Assistant Geologist is a great opportunity to launch your career while gaining hands-on field experience. You'll spend a significant amount of time outdoors performing soil and groundwater sampling, logging field observations, and supporting environmental and geotechnical investigations. Terracon offers opportunities for overtime, professional development, and career advancement, providing a clear path to grow your technical skills and build a successful long-term career in the geosciences.

• Follow safety rules, guidelines and standards for all projects. Participate in pre-task planning. Report any safety issues or concerns to management.
• Be responsible for maintaining quality standards on all projects.
• Entry level geological professional responsible for gathering data and information to be evaluated by other team members.
• Performs sampling and testing of water, soil, and other materials.
• Tabulate and prepare data for written reports.
• Assist with report preparation by summarizing data and information within reports.
• Operates field monitoring equipment.
• Assists with operation and maintenance of remediation and instrumentation systems.
• Transport material, samples or documents to the laboratory for further testing and analysis.
• Maintains and calibrates field monitoring equipment.
• Performs site visits, field observations and field data collection or assignments.
• May have limited client contact pertaining to specific projects/tasks.
• May assist more senior Geologists on large, more complex projects.
• Evaluates moderately complex laboratory and field data and assembles in written reports.
• May serve as team member or participate in meetings and communications with client pertaining to specific projects/tasks.

Terracon's geophysical services provide valuable information about the subsurface of our clients’ project sites faster, safer, and more sustainably than traditional drilling with little or no site disturbance. With the most geophysical professionals and the largest fleet of near-surface equipment compared to competitors, our experts draw on a wide range of screening tools to provide our clients with necessary geophysical data for the exploration, planning, design, locating, and/or evaluation of a wide variety of sites to increase accuracy and manage project risk.