Natural Resource Specialist 4

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**Natural Resource Specialist 4**

Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 11

Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland

Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid

Annual salary: $ 95,100.00 - 102,500.00

**What you'll do**
- Prepares documentation, budgets, terms of reference, standards, guidelines and contract specifications, etc. for, and

oversees, inspects and administers a full range of biological resource and environmental protection measures for major,
large, complex programs and projects to satisfy environmental plans and objectives, regulatory requirements, contract
specification
- Undertakes in-depth studies to determine the environmental impact of major, large and complex programs and future

Hydro facilities.
- Develops standards and strategies for parameters influencing the biological environment; prepares recommendations to

enhance consistency and quality of standards. Responds to unforeseen environmental concerns not covered by existing
regulations for standards.
- Ensures consistency in environmental inspection protocols, report preparation, liaison with outside groups and within BC

Hydro including project, field and resource staff.
- Facilitates meetings with government agency representatives from various Ministries and branches to determine and

incorporate routine regulatory requirements and options for compliance.
- Is deployed to the field to respond to unforeseen environmental concerns by coordinating mitigation and managing related

communication inside and outside BC Hydro.
- Provides technical direction to external consultants, crew leaders and staff in lower-level Natural Resource positions

engaged in environmental inspection and related activities, to ensure consistency, quality control requirements, standards,
guidelines.
- Provides work leadership to and performs all the functions of the Natural Resource Specialist 3 job.
- Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job.

**What you bring**
- Completion of a Bachelor degree in Natural Resource or Environmental Studies with at least eight (8) years of relevant

work experience or as an equivalent, completion of Technologist Diploma in Natural Resources or Environmental Studies
with nine (9) years of relevant work experience.
- Must be eligible for membership with the College of Applied Biology.
- Valid BC Driver’s License required.

**What we offer**
- A comprehensive benefits package
- A minimum of 15 paid vacation days
- A lifetime pension
- Flexible work model, depending on your role type
- Training and development courses

** What else you should know**
- This is a Full-time Regular (FTR) MoveUP Group 12 opportunity on the team, based at our Edmonds office location based

in Burnaby.
- The preferred headquarter location for this Full-Time Regular (FTR) opportunity is Burnaby (Edmonds), however we may

be willing to consider other British Columbia headquarter locations (notably Vernon, Kamloops, Prince George or Castlegar)
depending on operational requirements and this can be discussed further in the selection process. Please note this
- This role is within our Water team supporting operations and projects with fish & aquatic guidance and regulatory strategy.

Fisheries expertise would be an asset for this position.
- A condition of employment is to maintain your Class 5 drivers license in good standing.
- Please note in regards to being eligible for membership with the College of Applied Biology we are also willing to consider

those that are qualified/eligible with another Professional Association at this time.

As part of the Fish and Aquatic Sciences team in the BC Hydro Environment department, this position acts as a Subject
Management Expert (SME) with respect to fish-hydro interactions with respect to the following portfolios:

- Decision Support: interpret existing information to develop biological-operational relationships to support decision making

in Water Use Plan Order Reviews, Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program planning, impact mitigation decision making,
aquatic restoration programs and other structure decision making settings. This portfolio also requires the identification and
prioritization of critical uncertainties to support the improvements of decision tools and relationships;
- Mitigation Program Planning: oversee and support of key mitigation program pla