Tess Chadil

Environmental Project Management:

• Manage Phase 2 ESAs and Environmental Cleanup projects, primarily UST decommission and cleanup.
• Work directly with property owners, realtors, permitting agencies, regulators and other interested parties.
• Direct and oversee field crew and subcontractors in soil, soil-gas, and groundwater investigations, vapor mitigation, excavations and decommissions.
• Follow state regulations and used risk based corrective action decision making to guide remediation strategies to achieve site closure.
• Write contracts, proposals and bids for clients, as well as review budgets and generate invoices and project documentation.

Operations Management:

• Oversee all project managers and departments within the company (UST, radon, sewer, stormwater, Phase 1/Phase 2 environmental investigations).
• Responsible for hiring and training new project managers, and generation of new contract templates, project forms, and other necessary paperwork.
• Facilitate communication and problem solving between employees, subcontractors, regulators and clients.
• Development and delivery of presentations to clients and other professionals.
• Report directly to company president and participate in review and development of companywide strategies to improve and increase efficiency and output.

• Assisted internal DEQ workgroup, Interdepartmental Toxics Reduction Strategy.
• Compiled research, and consolidated and organized data for Priority Pollutant List.
• Identified deficiencies in data and provided recommendations for future research.

• Assisted with grant development and writing for Environmental Professional Program.
• Helped prepare selected lectures, compiled course materials and resources, and graded all exams for undergraduate environmental science courses taught by Professor Richard Dewey.

• Position funded through Miller Sustainability Gift to Portland State University.
• Designed and obtained grant funding for irrigation ditch efficiency study.
• Participated in survey of juvenile lamprey in tributaries to the John Day River.