Integrated Resources Management

**Integrated Resources Management (IRM) Technical Specialist**:
**Job ID**:

- 234140

**Posting status**:

- Open

**Organization**:

- Ministry of Natural Resources

**Division**:

- Regional Operations Division

**City**:

- Geraldton, Nipigon

**Position(s) language**:

- English

**Job term**:

- 1 Permanent

**Job code**:

- 41111 - Resource Technician Sr 2 (B/U)

**Salary**:

- $1,265.02 - $1,452.35 Per week*
*Indicates the salary listed as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement.
- Do you enjoy working as part of a team to find innovative ways to promote sustainable natural resource development? Do you have a passion for client service and natural resource management?

If this appeals to you, consider this opportunity as an IRM Technical Specialist in the Regional Operations Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).

The Ontario Public Service (OPS) is committed to being an employer of first choice, creating a positive and inclusive work environment.

We offer:

- a defined benefit pension plan
- maternity and parental leave top-up benefits which includes adoptive parents
- comprehensive health plan
- life and disability insurance
- flexible work arrangements
- collegial and professional work culture
- career growth and development opportunities across multiple business areas
- on-the-job training to support your success in the role

**About the job**:

- lead and support the delivery of the regulatory aspects of MNR's forestry, fish and wildlife, lands and waters, and aggregate programs (e.g. via planning, licensing, compliance and inspections)
- play a key role in ensuring public safety and sustainable natural resource management through the delivery of various operational programs (e.g. flood/emergency response, daM/Fishway operations, prevention of human and wildlife conflict)
- share your natural resource management technical expertise with colleagues/management, as well as a wide variety of clients including the public, industry representatives and Indigenous communities

Learn more about the role here

**What you bring to the team**:
**Mandatory requirement**:
**Communication and interpersonal skills**:

- You have experience in developing and maintaining positive business relationships, that enable you to collaborate effectively with clients, colleagues, and partners.
- You have demonstrated the ability to both contribute to, and strengthen, high-performing teams.

**Client service delivery excellence**:

- You have strong client service and service delivery skills, enabling you to work well in a fast-paced environment.
- You are resourceful and have well developed analytical/problem solving skills.
- You can lead and support the delivery of organizational priorities using a collaborative approach.

**Program expertise**:

- You can learn new, technically complex information, legislation and/or policies quickly where this information could be used to inform permitting, compliance or other client service functions.
- You have a broad base of natural resource management technical expertise in one or more of the following program areas:

- Forestry
- Fish and wildlife (including managing human and wildlife conflicts)
- Land and water Management
- Dam operations/emergency management
- Aggregates

**Compliance and field experience**:

- You have experience conducting regulatory compliance activities using a risk-based approach, including using education and outreach to gain voluntary compliance.

**Planning and coordination skills**:

- You can plan, coordinate and implement team activities that deliver organizational priorities.

**How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility**: We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's _Human Rights Code_ and the _Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005._ We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

- diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- accessibility
- Anti-Racism Policy

**Additional information**:

- Monday, September 29, 2025 11:59 pm EDT

**Position details**:

- 1 English Permanent, 5 Wadsworth Dr, Nipigon, North Region or 208 Beamish Ave, Geraldton, North Region

**Compensation group**:

- Ontario Public Service Employees Union

**Work hours**:

- Schedule 6

**Category**:

- Lands and Resources

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