Environmental Protection Officer

3 weeks ago

Red Deer, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 56155
Ministry: Environment and Protected Areas
Location: Red Deer ( other location within the district may be considered)
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: April 10, 2024
Classification: Technologies 6 (127TNA)

**Salary**: $2,694.27 - $3,537.86 bi-weekly ($70,320 - $92,338/year)

We support Albertans in being proud stewards of air, land, water, and biodiversity by leading the work required for desired environmental outcomes and sustainable development of natural resources.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career using your education and experience in the environmental sector to ensure that Alberta’s environment and public safety is not at risk? Do you have experience related to environmental, regulatory inspections and/or compliance activities? This might be the opportunity for you
- We are hiring an Environmental Protection Officer (EPO) for our Red Deer area.
- You will provide informed advice to regulated parties and members of the public regarding their actions to protect Alberta's environment and public health. Working within Alberta's environmental legislation, you will take a solutions-oriented approach in addressing and managing environmental challenges. You will consult, provide advice/direction, and take steps to enforce legislation when required. In your role you will respond to environmental incidents including public complaints on a variety of issues, and assess compliance with the applicable legislation, collect evidence to determine if a contravention has occurred, and conduct reactive inspections to assess regulatory compliance.
- **As an EPO working as part of the Compliance Team reporting to the Compliance Assurance Lead, you will**:

- Conduct proactive and reactive inspections to assess regulatory compliance in regulated sectors such as drinking water, contaminated sites, industrial, agricultural, and municipal sectors; and
- Deal with the resolution of a wide variety of environmental issues.**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**About Your Competencies**:
DRIVE FOR RESULTS: You will use your drive for results to engage stakeholders proactively using educational and prevention tools to ensure the rules were understood and followed. As a representative of the Ministry, you will conduct yourself in a professional and respectful manner when conducting compliance inspections and investigations and when responding to environmental incidents.

**SYSTEMS THINKING**: By using a system thinking approach, you take a broad view of regulating the environment to ensure that the actions you take to address compliance issues are impactful and result in long-term benefits to the environment.

**DEVELOP NETWORKS**: You will use your excellent interpersonal skills to build trust and credibility with a wide variety of stakeholders to ensure complex and potentially contentious situations reach compliant outcomes.

**DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS**:You take your personal and professional development seriously and implement continuous improvement strategies. You share your passion and dedication to excellence to improve the team outcomes.

**Qualifications**:
**Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements**:

- A two-year technical diploma in a related field, preferably Environmental Science, Agriculture studies, Environmental Enforcement, or a related field.
- A minimum of six years of direct compliance, regulatory and/or enforcement experience.

**Equivalencies will be considered based on**:

- 1 year of education for 1 year experience.
- **Additional requirements**:

- Valid Driver’s License.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

**Assets**:

- Experience with working in or with the regulated sectors such as drinking water, contaminated sites, industrial, agricultural, and municipal.
- Experience in regulatory inspection and/or investigation processes and techniques.
- Transferable skills, experience, education, and alignment with Government of Alberta values may be considered.
- Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to**Notes**:

- Hours of Work: 7.25 hours per day, Monday to Friday, 36.25 hours per week.
- Some on-call may be required in case of environmental emergency situations.
- Travel and field work within the Region may be required.
- **Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.**
- Working for the Alberta Public Service
- Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
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