Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties worldwide and are devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.
Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment.
Your Opportunity
We are actively seeking a talented and ambitious Senior Marine Biologist to join our marine team in our Burnaby, BC office. The successful candidate will work in a team environment and contribute to environmental impact assessments, environmental effects mitigation and monitoring programs, research projects and permitting. Depending on level of expertise, tasks may include conducting or planning field work, data analysis, report and proposal writing and reviewing, preparing and delivering presentations, and business development. The successful candidate will help shape our marine practice in BC and beyond.
Your Key Responsibilities
Manage, plan, and lead marine field programs (marine fish, marine mammals, intertidal, water and sediment quality)
Prepare Fisheries Act authorization applications
Contribute leadership to the group by providing supervision, training, technical direction, and mentoring to junior and intermediate staff
Assemble, manage, and analyze large marine datasets or lead junior and intermediate staff to do so
Manage tasks and projects according to approved scopes of work, and deliver quality reports on schedule and within budget
Lead the pursuit of new business development opportunities by preparing proposals and building and maintaining positive client relationships
Understand recent and existing practices and techniques for sampling and analysis of data from marine intertidal, subtidal and pelagic environments
Embrace and promote Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work
Your Capabilities and Credentials
Proven technical, communication, writing and organization skills.
Familiarity with coastal marine ecology and knowledge of current provincial and federal. government regulatory requirements.
Required experience in:
working in a collaborative team environment
developing field programs and methods to meet specific project objectives
preparing Fisheries Act authorization applications and environmental assessments federally and provincially, preferably in British Columbia
leading field crews in the execution of marine field programs including developing health and safety protocols
collecting, assembling and analyzing data (statistical experience is preferred)
leading the preparation of complex, high-consequence technical reports, possibly multi-disciplinary
leading proposals of varying sizing, contributing to large proposals
business development through client relationships and/or technical expertise
leading junior and intermediate staff in data management and report preparation
Experience in some or all the following is an asset:
developing habitat offset and restoration plans
construction monitoring and environmental management planning
working with and guiding clients
diverse and dynamic projects
enjoying working on multi-disciplinary scopes of work
