Mine Water Specialist

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Role description:

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Mine Water Specialist to join our Canadian Mine Sector team to support our client’s technical mine water and treatment needs in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario. Direct mining sector project experience required. This is a client facing, technical role.

This opportunity requires a dynamic individual with proven and direct mine water management and treatment experience. The individual must possess strong technical skills and client development skills, to assist Arcadis’ growth serving the mining sector in the above-cited geographies. Ideally, the candidate’s experience extends over the full mining life cycle at both active and inactive operations, from initial planning and permitting through mine closure. In this role, you will assist Project Managers (PMs) with environmental investigation, feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed engineering design, construction, and operations and maintenance. You will provide your technical expertise to projects, oversee the day-to-day activities of junior and mid-level staff; schedule and coordinate task resources and solicit guidance from senior-level technical staff and PMs.

Role accountabilities:

The successful candidate will work with other technical subject matter experts to assess mine-site hydrogeology, surface and groundwater management, and geochemistry. They will assist in planning and implementing bench-scale and pilot-scale treatability studies and developing basis-of-design for water management and treatment. They will contribute to project teams in planning and implementing site investigations to inform mine water management and treatment planning.

• Contribute to development and evaluation of alternatives for mine water management and treatment.
• Prepare technical reports and work plans, and engineering design documentation
• Assist in stakeholder engagement including communicating with clients and regulatory agencies, and third-party interests.
• Coordinate and provide technical directions to analytical laboratories for routine and specialized testing methods
• Provide technical support to industrial water treatment for other market sectors such as energy projects in Canada

Qualifications & Experience:

• MSc Degree in environmental, civil, or chemical/process engineering; or related applied sciences field such as geochemistry or hydrogeology from an accredited university. Minimum8 years of experience
• P.Eng., or P.Geo., or P.Chem., is required for the province of practice.
• The ability to effectively communicate through excellent technical writing skills and presentation of technical work to senior scientists, management, and external peers and clients is a requirement of the role.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred experience for this role includes serving both active and inactive mine operations, experience focusing on multinational mining clients, experience serving multiple phases of the mining life cycle, and experience on blended project teams involving multiple engineering and applied sciences disciplines.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

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Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

The salary range for this position is $71,000- 106,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.

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