Associate Project Manager (Environmental Emergency Response)

Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States; frequent extended travel to emergency response sites is required, including potentially remote areas.

Salary: $55,000–$62,000 per year, commensurate with experience, skills, and geographic location.

Company

hirify.global is a global environmental solutions company delivering scientific, engineering, field, consulting, and data-driven solutions for environmental, regulatory, and operational challenges.

What you will do

• Mobilize Toxicological Emergency Response Project personnel, equipment, sampling media, and emergency response supplies.
• Develop sampling strategies and conduct air, water, soil, noise, meteorological, and occupational exposure assessments.
• Represent the company on site with clients and regulatory agencies, provide status updates, cost estimates, and data evaluations.
• Prepare sampling work plans, health and safety plans, scientific reports, project summaries, invoices, and project records.
• Coordinate vendors and data managers, maintain environmental databases, identify trends, and support corrective actions.
• Lead response readiness initiatives, mentor response teams, assess exclusion zones, and ensure appropriate PPE and safety practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, environmental engineering, environmental health and safety, industrial hygiene, chemical engineering, toxicology, or a related discipline preferred; relevant TERP experience may substitute at the director’s discretion.
• More than one year of field experience is required; relevant master’s degree and field experience are preferred.
• Advanced computer skills on a Windows-based platform and the ability to work within a matrix reporting structure.
• Professional English communication skills are required.
• HAZWOPER certification, DISA clearance, TWIC clearance, a current driver’s license, and a current passport are required.
• Ability to work extended hours, weekends, shifts of up to 24 hours when necessary, and in physically demanding environments using PPE and respirators.

Nice to have

• CIH, CSP, CHMM, or OSHT certification.
• Master’s degree in a relevant scientific, engineering, toxicology, or environmental health and safety discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role reporting to a Project Manager.
• Participation in a 24/7 emergency response on-call rotation.
• Work across office, outdoor, industrial, and emergency response environments, including land, sea, and air deployments.
• Frequent travel, overtime, weekends, and extended field assignments may be required.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.