Senior Hydrogeologist
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.
Your Opportunity
Our team of hydrogeologists, hydrologists, water resource engineers, geochemists, and geologists lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Key role in a wide variety of mining projects and must be able to work within multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, hydrogeologic assessments and contaminant investigations, and rehabilitation projects
- Manage a multi-discipline scope of work within a team of hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and geochemists and interacting directly with clients
- Strong quantitative hydrogeology skills are required with the ability to interact with groundwater modeling and geochemical specialists
- Follow safe work practices and adhere to company and client guidelines and policies for planning and executing work in a safe manner
- Prepare proposals, develop work plans, schedules, and budgets and management of projects/tasks
- Develop preliminary conceptual hydrogeological models to support field program design
- Design and oversee implementation of hydrogeology field investigations including drilling and logging of overburden and bedrock core, sampling of soil and bedrock
- Support development of numerical groundwater models to support environmental impact assessments, remedial evaluations and risk assessments
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, groundwater and surface water assessments and contaminant investigations, and rehabilitation projects
- Prepare technical reports and client presentations summarizing project work, findings and recommendations
- Travel as required to various field sites with overnight travel sometimes required
- Demonstrate sound understanding and application of established practices, standards, and guidelines
- Participate in Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Excellent communication skills: verbal, business writing, electronic communications and presentations
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and mentor junior and intermediate staff
- Team player able to work cooperatively and effectively to develop solutions to unique problems that often involves multiple technical disciplines
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, changing priorities and deliver on time and within budget
- Strong business development, client management, communication, and financial management skills are essential
- Maintain a disciplined approach to project execution and technical excellence
- Possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to make timely decisions
- Possess proficient skills in communication and technical information exchange with clients, engineers and scientists, government regulators and agencies, and academia, as well as non-technical communication to the public
- Possess good knowledge of water and groundwater related acts and regulations
- Overall well-rounded experience in both environmental and geotechnical applications of hydrogeology, particularly with mining and resource development
- Proficiency with numerical groundwater modeling software is considered an asset
Education and Experience
Minimum undergraduate degree directly related to hydrogeology (Geology, Geological, Geotechnical or Civil Engineering).
A graduate degree related to hydrogeology is considered a strong asset.
A minimum of 10 years of mining-related hydrogeological experience.
Existing professional registration (P.Geo. or P.Eng.) or eligible to do so within one year of starting position.
Majority of time spent in office environment with prolonged sitting and computer work.
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities, and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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