Senior Environmental Technician

GHD Group Pty Ltd • Fredericton, NB

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Environmental Technician to join our Fredericton or Bedford team in Atlantic Canada. Your role will be to assist engineers in designing, planning, and performing engineering duties related to the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental hazards, utilizing various engineering disciplines. This position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in fieldwork, environmental assessments, health, safety, and environment tasks, data collection, analysis, and technical writing, engineering solutions design, sampling and testing, project coordination, and technical troubleshooting.

Requirements

• Post-secondary or college diploma in environment, geology or civil engineering
• Relevant experience of minimum 10 years in environmental site characterization and rehabilitation
• Possess a valid driver's license and have access to a vehicle
• Autonomous, methodical, responsible, resourceful and punctual person
• Available for a variable schedule
• Available to work on sites outside the region on occasion

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual capabilities considered an asset

Responsibilities

• Perform field work to supervise site interventions related to environmental characterizations of soil and groundwater and land rehabilitation (by excavation, in situ treatment and biopile; Complete topographic surveying and survey layouts)
• Perform Phase I to III Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
• Implement and enforce health and safety plans on project sites; Perform Emergency Response (ER) services for environmental spills/releases
• Providing accurate field notes; Write site reports and other technical documents
• Implement feasibility testing of proposed engineering solutions, under supervision, to provide feedback and contribute to validation of the design
• Conduct field activities that include sampling of groundwater, soil, soil vapour, sediment, and/or surface water; Perform exploration trenching, drilling, in situ geotechnical testing, installation of observation wells, soil and groundwater sampling
• Perform oversight of excavation and drilling activities; Supervise subcontractors on the sites; Project task coordination and ability to oversee projects, implement field work, and report to Project Team
• Perform basic tasks in technical troubleshooting, such as identifying evident technical issues with equipment and experiments and assisting in basic diagnostic actions

Benefits

• GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree