Environmental Technical Assistant

6 months ago


Surrey, Canada Powertech Labs Full time

Powertech Labs Inc is a cleantech company with the mission of being a trusted innovation partner providing solutions, specialized testing, and technical expertise for a safe and sustainable global energy future. Powertech has a global reputation for delivering transformative solutions in both the electric power industry as well as the transport sector. A clean future will be driven by electric and hydrogen power, and we will help get there.

We are always guided by our values as a global clean-technology and engineering company:

- Safety: This top everything. We do our work safely or we do not do it at all.
- Challenges: We ready ourselves for the hardest challenges - through attaining accreditations, developing industry-leading innovative products & services, investing in our labs, hiring great people, and making them better.
- Diverse Teams: We are strongest together and capitalize on our varied attributes - together we are more than the sum of parts.
- Our customers: Customers fuel this company and we constantly work with them to earn and retain their trust and loyalty. We expect that our customers hold us accountable to our commitments.
- Excellence: Striving for excellence, acting with integrity, and having the highest standards in quality are core to what we do.

Provides assistance to Environmental Services or Natural Resources staff in project and field study work. Provides a research function on a variety of routine projects.

**What you will do**:
1. Assists the Environmental Services or Natural Resources staff in routine portions of field studies and inspections such as setting up and/or servicing test, monitoring and related equipment, taking measurements and samples, performing tests, observing and recording contractor methods/practices, test sample results and field notes; ensures supplies required for field trips and laboratory work are available and maintained.

2. Under direction researches, assembles and assesses biological, physical and socio-economic/environmental data from a variety of sources; prepares technical reports on assigned topics; reviews field reports or other literature and assembles specific information to assist Environmental Services or Natural Resources staff to prepare reports.

3. Liaises with other agencies to discuss and prepare regulatory and other requirements for assigned projects.

4. Performs a variety of administrative, laboratory and office duties such as preparing and examining biological samples, compiling data from aerial photos using stereoscopes, planimeters or other laboratory equipment, preparing and processing invoices and/or payment and expense documentation and preparing and entering data from various sources such as field notes, data cards, or recording charts into a computer.

5. Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties which do not affect the rating of the job.

**Skills, Knowledge and Abilities required**:

- Research and analytical skills.
- Good knowledge of fish biology or environmental handling, storage and disposal methods.
- Good knowledge of provincial and federal fisheries acts or environmental regulations.
- Ability to prepare and understand technical reports.
- Basic knowledge of safety issues for field work.
- Basic knowledge of the operation and effect on fisheries caused by BC Hydro generating facilities.
- Good written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to operate a boat.
- Possess a valid BC driver's licence.

**What you bring**

**What we offer**

Location: Surrey B.C.

Affiliation: MoveUP

Job Group: 7

Salary range: $58K - $63K annually

This is a temporary role. The length will be approx. 6 months less a day.

**What else you should know**

Please be advised that this role has been assessed as safety sensitive and pre-qualification alcohol and drug testing will be required as a pre-condition to employment. This role is concurrently advertised in our internal and external job boards.

Maintaining customer-confidence and our reputation is key: To this end, all our campus and laboratories are accredited to ISO9001 (quality), ISO14001 (environment stewardship) and ISO45001 (safety) and IEC/ISO 17025 for over 100 standards. To complement the focus on accreditation, we encourage our experts to drive global standards and provide development opportunities for all staff to grow in their role and to advance in their careers.

Working at Powertech is not a job but a career. If you want to be a part of a growing clean technology company that is impactful and working towards a common goal of accelerating the world towards a net zero carbon future, come and join our team.

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