Intermediate Professional, Environmental Science

Job Description

To be part of WSP and the RPM team

The Remediation Program Management team is your opportunity to apply your skills and join a diverse and growing team within WSP supporting our key clients.

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 67,000 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.

A typical day in the life at WSP for the Environmental Engineer

• Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying and expanding your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
• As a part of our team, we each bring our lived experiences in hand, where we have the power to design a place where people, friends, families and neighbors can thrive.
• Maintain a work-life balance, logging in remotely or attending the office in a hybrid work solution of 3 days a week in the office.
• Clearly identify and help the project team understand project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to your project manager, project directors, mentors and reviewing and adjusting well understood specific work instructions and health and safety plans.
• Develop your career by having several different mentors to plan, adjust and grow your career at WSP. Be a mentor to others within WSP, sharing your experiences and knowledge.
• Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, reviewing and enhancing project health and safety plans.
• Participate and be a member of a 10-20 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 centered around the Alberta foothills, and at locations within Western / Northern Canada (up to 30%)
• Lead and work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western and Northern Canada

Apply today and be part of a team that transforms challenges into opportunities.

Qualities and Qualifications

You're the type of person who has one or more of these qualities :

• Stops and takes time out of your busy day to help coworkers, especially new team members, understand assignments and help mentor them in their career path
• A passion for training new staff in the field all the tips and tricks you've picked up over your career
• Have excellent communication skills and somehow find yourself the default person coordinating activities with your friends and family
• Miss going to the field and getting to see what's really going on in the ground
• Likes to rub soil on their teeth to texture it (but doesn't because it might be contaminated)
• Can't get enough learning

You've got the following qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences
• Has or able to obtain your professional engineering or professional science designation
• 6 to 10 years experience in the environmental industry
• Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industry

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.