Experienced Environmental Technician

WSP; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental services firm in Calgary is seeking an Environmental Field Technician to apply technical skills in environmental remediation projects. The role involves up to 75% fieldwork in Western Canada. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a relevant diploma and 4 to 7 years of environmental industry experience. Join a team passionate about environmental solutions and career development.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years experience in the environmental industry.
• Health and safety training related to oil and gas industry is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Apply and expand on technical and project delivery skills.
• Support development and improvement of health and safety plans.
• Complete fieldwork assignments centered around Alberta foothills.

Skills

Fieldwork

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Environmental contaminant analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Diploma related to environmental industry

Job description

Overview

The Remediation Program Management team is your opportunity to apply your skills and join a diverse and growing team within WSP supporting our key clients. We are seeking team members who are ready to build a career, say yes to new opportunities, and bring and share new ideas in solving the biggest environmental remediation challenges for our biggest clients. Formulate your career development plan and interact with and find mentors to bond with over the technical, client and project delivery activities that interest you. Join our team and support our passion for environmental remediation, characterization and reclamation; saving the planet one site at a time.

Apply now – only two spots left!

A typical day in the life at WSP for the Environmental Field Technician

Responsibilities

• Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying and expanding your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
• As a part of our team, we each bring our lived experiences in hand, where we have the power to design a place where people, friends, families and neighbours can thrive.
• Maintain a work-life balance, logging in remotely or attending the office in a hybrid work solution of 3 days a week in the office.
• Clearly identify and understand project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to your project manager, project directors, mentors and developing well understood specific work instructions and health and safety plans.
• Develop your career by having several different mentors to plan, adjust and grow your career at WSP.
• Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, support the development and improvement of project health and safety plans.
• Participate and be a member of a 10-20 person client-specific delivery team, while at the same time leveraging the experience and expertise of the entire RPM group.
• Have a really complex technical issue? Engage with a Practice Area Network (PAN) who may have experienced the same issue in Australia, Malaysia, or even exotic locations like Saskatoon.
• Apply your love for the outdoors and complete fieldwork assignments centered around the Alberta foothills, and at locations within Western/Northern Canada (up to 75%).
• Gain the experience to plan, lead or work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western and Northern Canada.

Apply today and be part of a team that transforms challenges into opportunities.

Qualities

You’re the type of person who has one or more of these qualities:

• Can’t get enough of the outdoors and fieldwork (up to 75%) and understand office work is also part of the job
• You would like to be paid to see and explore different parts of Western, Eastern and Northern Canada
• Have a passion for understanding environmental contaminant conceptual site models, and applying logic and experience to identify and characterize contaminants of concern on sites
• Volunteered (and also somehow chosen) to be the leader of your class projects
• Have excellent communication skills and are the default person coordinating activities with your friends and family
• Can’t get enough learning

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Diploma related to environmental industry with environmental experience will also be considered
• 4 to 7 years experience in the environmental industry
• Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industry including ground disturbance training and experience