Graduate Geochemist

2 weeks ago


Burnaby, Canada AECOM Full time

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Job Description**:
**AECOM **is seeking a **Graduate Geochemist** to be based in **Burnaby, BC**, Canada

**The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to**:

- Work within a team of hydrogeologists, geologists, geochemists, and groundwater modellers on a wide variety of mining, major infrastructure, remediation and oil and gas opportunities.
- Implement hydrogeological and geochemcial investigations
- Evaluate geochemistry of solid phase (soil/waste rock/tailings), aqueous phase (inorganic/organic compounds), and stable/radioactive isotopes.
- Assist developing conceptual hydrogeological and geochemical models to support field program design and problem evaluation.
- Support development of contaminant transport models to support environmental impact assessments

**Qualifications**:
**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:

- B.Sc. in Geochemistry, Hydrogeology, Geology or related engineering discipline

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Ability to work independently and within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and strong written and oral communication skills.
- Interest in completing field investigations, travel, and able to adjust personal schedule to meet project needs.
- Experience with software packages such as gINT, AQTESOLV, ArcGIS, Surfer, Grapher, EQuIS, AquaChem, PHREEQC and Geochemist's Workbench.
- Knowledge of statistical and geostatistical methods including familiarity with statistical tools including Pro-UCL, R and others.

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.