Intermediate Environmental Scientist

Job Description
The Opportunity:
The Remediation Program Management (RPM) team is your opportunity to apply your skills and join a diverse and growing team within WSP supporting our key clients in contaminated site assessment, remediation, and reclamation. We are seeking team members who are ready to build a career, say yes to new opportunities, and bring and share new ideas in solving the biggest environmental remediation challenges for our biggest clients. Formulate your career development plan and interact with and find mentors within our 65,000 person company to bond with over the technical, client and project delivery activities that interest you. Join our team and support our passion for environmental remediation, characterization and reclamation; saving the planet one site at a time.

Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of Inclusion and Belonging.
• Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
• Our Hybrid Work Policy - a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

#WeAreWSP
What You Can Expect To Do Here

• Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying and expanding your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
• Clearly identify and understand project objectives associated with progressing contaminated sites to closure, bring your ideas and solutions to your project manager, project directors, mentors.
• Project coordination including set-up of field work programs, preparation of field work instructions and health and safety plans, budget and schedule management, subcontractor management, and project filing.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior staff.
• Completing and assisting in data collection, compilation, interpretation and reporting for phased environmental site assessment, remediation, and reclamation.
• Develop your career by having several different mentors to plan, adjust and grow your career at WSP.
• Participate and be a member of a 30-40 person client-specific delivery team, while at the same time leveraging the experience and expertise of the entire RPM group.
• Have a really complex technical issue? Engage with a Practice Area Network (PAN) who may have experienced the same issue in Australia, Malaysia, or even exotic locations like Saskatoon.
• Apply your love for the outdoors and complete fieldwork assignments in Western Canada (up to 25%), including Phase 1 and 2 ESAs, drilling, groundwater sampling, remediation, and reclamation.
• Plan, lead or work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western Canada.

What You'll Bring To WSP

• Bachelor's degree or technical diploma in environmental science, engineering, or related field.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in environmental site assessment and remediation.
• Asset to have experience related to the Upstream oil and gas industry.
• Eligible to register as a Professional or Professional in Training with an applicable association (AIA, APEGA, etc.)
• Thrives in the office (up to 75%) and are detail-orientated.
• Have excellent communication skills and are the default person coordinating activities with your friends and family.
• Enjoys mentoring and training junior staff on the wonders of environmental assessments.

About Us
WSP
is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP

• We value our people and our reputation
• We are locally dedicated with international scale
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We foster collaboration in everything we do
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note
Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information please READ THE FULL POLICY.