Principal Marine Specialist

1 week ago


Medina, Saudi Arabia Parsons Full time

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented **Principal Marine Specialist **to join our team In this role you will get to **conduct **assessment and provide technical service supporting coastal ecological protection and improvement **.

**What You'll Be Doing**:

- Envision and design a Marine Habitat Program with a wide mandate to enhance coastal and marine habitats and establish a Conservation Zone.
- Participate in near-shore and offshore marine surveys for marine biological, chemical and physical studies supporting technical report preparation.
- Review and integrate current and emerging best approaches, practices, and techniques.
- Develop and maintain an updated list of coastal and marine habitats of current or potential need of enhancement following an evidence-based approach.
- Develop, review, and periodically update habitat-specific restoration/rehabilitation action plans, based on internationally recognized best practices and guidelines.
- Implement targeted activities/projects to effectively restore and enhance coastal and marine habitats.
- Incorporate the human-dimension in the program through, mainstreaming the awareness, education, stakeholder engagement and visitor experience provisions.
- Undertake marine spatial planning to identify potential suitable sites for enhancement and development.
- Contribute to designing in-field surveys and monitoring programs to evaluate the effectiveness of projects and measures undertaken for marine enhancement.
- Work closely with relevant and competent authorities in KSA to ensure full alignment with the environmental, wildlife, cultural and economic policies, and programs.
- Utilizes advanced scientific principles, theories, practices, and existing technologies when working on unusually complex technical problems.
- Interprets and records data, conducts analyses, compares findings to relevant studies to ensure compliance.
- Makes recommendations on work methods and procedures and develop technical innovations by devising practical and economical solutions to problems in own discipline.

**What Required Skills You'll Bring**:

- A minimum of 10 years of experience working within the marine ecology sector.
- Knowledge of US-EPA, EU or KSA regulations and standards for safety and environment.
- Excellent spoken and written English language skills with the ability to communicate effectively.
- D emonstrable experience working with regulators or in a regulatory setting.

**What Desired Skills You'll Bring**:

- D emonstrable experience working with regulators or in a regulatory setting.
- Diving experience inshore and offshore.
- Excellent computer skills are essential with experience using MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point).
- Marine pollution modeling expertise is a value-added skill.
- GIS data management and analysis
- Ability to work to deadlines.
- Proficient at problem solving.
- Competent at identifying and resolving errors and inconsistencies when they arise.

**Minimum Clearance Required to Start**:
Not Applicable/None

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran.



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