Contaminated Sites Professional
Are you an experienced Contaminated Sites Professional looking to progress your career? We're looking for a Contaminated Sites Professional to join our growing team. We are open to filling this position in St. John's, NL office.
At GEMTEC, we offer something different. We're an employee-owned, 400-person multidisciplinary consulting firm—not too big, not too small. We're large enough to compete head-to-head with publicly traded engineering giants, but still small enough to maintain the culture and flexibility of a close-knit team.
Our size and hands-on management style let us move quickly, embrace new opportunities, and empower our people to shape their own careers—without getting lost in corporate bureaucracy.
You're an ideal candidate if you have:
- An ownership mentality that treats each project as if it's building your own home.
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills (English), as well strong organizational abilities, with respect to the capability to manage and prioritize several assignments at one time with a view to delivery of a quality product on time and on budget.
- Strong knowledge of physical hydrogeology, dewatering, potable groundwater supply, and groundwater and surface water monitoring programs.
- Familiarity with infrastructure, pit and quarry, and community supply required. Specific experience in the mining industry is considered an asset.
- The ability to work in a dynamic consulting environment that requires flexibility and the willingness to work overtime, as required.
A typical day on the job might look like:
- Providing leadership and mentorship of junior and intermediate environmental professionals and staff.
- Providing consulting services in the field of contaminated sites management for government and private industry clients.
- Providing technical support to a wide variety of environmental projects, including the preparation and supervision of field programs, data analysis, and technical report writing and proposal preparation.
- Data compilation and interpretation, including water quality results, hydraulic response testing data analysis, water balance assessments, water take/dewatering estimation, and impact assessment analysis.
- Interpretation and application of municipal by-laws, provincial and federal acts and regulations.
- Senior review of technical documents as a Professional Engineer/Professional Geoscientist.
- Business development in support of growth of the contaminated sites and environmental practices.
- Managing client needs and client communication for a given project.
- Project management and budget development and management.
- Adhering to all company policies.
- Performing other duties as required.
The good stuff you get:
- Full time salaried position.
- Fair pay plus extra: competitive salary with year-end profit-sharing bonus
- Complete health & dental coverage including vision, paramedical services, and Teladoc
- Retirement planning made easier with a 5% employer match on your contributions
- Paid time off (vacation and sick days) plus Employee & Family Assistance Program when you need it
- Office year-end closure (paid time off between Christmas and the New Year)
Your background and what you bring:
- A bachelor's degree in engineering or geoscience from an accredited institution, or a bachelor's degree in earth science or environmental science. A post-graduate degree is considered an asset.
- Professional license in NL (i.e., P.Geo. or P.Eng.), or sufficient experience as an environmental scientist in contaminated sites to qualify as a Registered Site Professional.
- Current registration, or the eligibility to be registered as a Site Professional with the Impacted Sites Management Section (ISMS) of Newfoundland and Labrador Environment and Climate Change.
- Minimum 12 years of relevant professional experience. Experience in consulting is considered an asset.
- A thorough knowledge and understanding of provincial and federal regulatory frameworks for groundwater withdrawal/use, drinking water supply, contaminated sites assessment and management, and environmental assessment is required.
- Groundwater flow and transport modeling experience is an asset.
- Numerical and advanced hydraulic testing experience is an asset.
- Senior project management and people management skills are required.
- A valid driver's license
Interested individuals, click here to apply: https://gemtec.bamboohr.com/careers/215
Thank you for taking the time to consider GEMTEC. Only candidates proceeding to the next phase of the application process will be contacted at this time. We encourage you to connect with us on LinkedIn, even if this opportunity isn't for you, the next one might be!
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