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When it comes to environmental consulting, we’re helping our clients protect our world’s natural resources. Pave the way for your career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. You'll impact the world around you by helping us solve real-life challenges.

Based out of Montreal or your remote office in Ontario, you’ll have the opportunity to work as part of multi-disciplinary project teams to contribute directly to all phases of government and privately-owned infrastructure projects. Each position is full-time. Bring your enthusiasm for learning and desire to work with a multi-disciplinary team of technical experts, and we’ll help you grow!

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Collaborate with project managers to define the scope of the ecological assessment, identifying key ecological features and potential impacts.

• Undertake desktop studies to define scope and methodology of ecological field studies, based on requirements set out in the Tailored Impact Statement Guidance

• Support the GIS team and E&S Data Manager in defining aquatic ecological data architecture.

• Undertake impact analysis based on data from field studies, Indigenous knowledge, and stakeholder engagement.

• Provide input into alignment development and design of the railway and associated works, as part of a multi-criteria assessment process and other design review and assurance processes.

• Support the wider Design Team in recommending suitable mitigation and compensation measures to minimise significant impacts to aquatic habitats or species.

• Support Impact Assessment Manager and others with meaningful engagement with key environmental stakeholders, including IAAC, other federal and provincial agencies, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and other local environmental groups.

• Prepare aquatic ecological sections of Impact Statement.

• Assist the Permits, Licenses, and Approvals (PLA) team to identify and obtain necessary PLAs required to undertake site investigation, early or advanced works or construction works.

• Prepare guidance and provide assurance during construction to ensure compliance with ecological mitigation measures, conditions of the Decision Statement and any conditions defined in PLAs.

• Oversee any required long-term ecological monitoring during and post-construction, to assess the recovery of impact habitats and the success of mitigation and compensation measures.

• Bachelor's degree in science or environmental studies, university or equivalent

• Minimum 4 years of applicable experience

• For Ontario position: Training and experience identifying flora and fauna of Ontario (e.g. plants, birds, mammals, insects, etc.)

• For Ontario position: Ontario-based certifications or training (e.g. Ecological Land Classification, Butternut Health Assessment, Ontario Wetland Evaluation System

• For Montreal position: Training and experience identifying flora and fauna of Quebec (e.g. plants, birds, mammals, insects, etc.)

• Experience conducting biological/environmental field work, such as terrestrial vegetation surveys, wetland evaluations, wildlife surveys, breeding bird surveys, Species at Risk habitat screenings and habitat assessments

• Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools and GIS mapping systems

• Bi-lingual is an asset

• Must have driver’s license and clean driver’s abstract.

• Experience in a variety of project delivery models considered an asset

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