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Your Opportunity

Our Alberta Environmental Services group has an opportunity for an experienced Biologist to join our Aquatics team, initially supporting as a Crew Lead for a major capital project in Alberta over the summer. Opportunity exists to support technical deliverables primarily following field season.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage, plan, and lead fish salvage and/or water quality field programs
• Lead fish and fish habitat field assessments
• Prepare and lead junior staff in field activities
• Work in remote locations for up to two weeks at a time
• Manage tasks according to approved scopes of work
• Understand recent and existing practices and techniques for sampling and analysis of fisheries, fish habitat and water quality data from streams, rivers and lakes
• Participate in Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work
• Contribute technical guidance to the field team by providing supervision, training, technical direction, and mentoring to more junior staff
• Support preparation of technical documents (e.g., QAES reports, environmental assessments, Request for Review)
• Support preparation and development of scopes and budgets

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Proven technical, communication, and organization skills
• Knowledge of current provincial and federal government regulatory requirements
• Familiarity with freshwater ecology in Alberta and fish identification knowledge
• Experience conducting fish inventories and fish habitat assessments
• Experience collecting field data using digital data collection platforms is an asset
• Experience leading construction monitoring programs
• Preparation of technical reports and regulatory submissions (e.g., COP notifications, Request for Review, SARA permit applications)
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Capable of working with and guiding clients and contractors
• Manages and prioritizes time when executing multiple parallel objectives
• Able to deal with changing conditions and priorities while in the field
• Thrives in an environment with diverse and dynamic projects, and enjoys working on multi-disciplinary scopes of work
• Proficient technical writer

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Biology (or technical equivalent) is preferred
• Professional accreditation (i.e., P.Biol, R.P.Bio, R.B.Tech) required
• Ability to be designated as a QAES
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an aquatic biologist, with experience in freshwater systems in Alberta
• An electrofishing certificate and experience is an asset
• Swiftwater rescue and practical ice safety training are assets
• Required experience in:
• following health and safety protocols for field programs
• leading field crews in the execution of fish salvage or water quality field programs
• working on remote field programs

Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

Please indicate any relevant training or certifications you may have including health and safety training.

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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