Environmental Technologist/Industrial Hygiene Technician

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We’re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.

Your Opportunity

Our Hazmat and Industrial Hygiene practice provides services associated with occupational health and safety-related work, including indoor air quality, hazardous materials and mould consulting initiatives. Our team works on behalf of our clients to implement and coordinate repair, replacement and abatement projects, often working with our other Environmental Services and Buildings Engineering groups to support required remediation and design activities. Working closely with our clients, our dedicated professionals help to establish and understand the specific needs of our clients and tailor our technical solutions in alignment with their specific business and project objectives. Clients across all sectors including commercial real estate, K-12 education, higher education, healthcare, and all levels of government have partnered with us to provide assessments for the purposes of re-financing, acquisition/disposition and capital planning.

Stantec's Edmonton office has an opportunity for a Junior Environmental Technologist to work within our Hazmat and Industrial Hygiene and Site Investigation and Remediation practices.

Your Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Team Leader your responsibilities may include but are not limited to\:

• Understanding the application of occupational health and safety principles and regulations, especially as they relate to industrial hygiene and hazardous materials.
• Planning and conducting site assessments for hazardous materials including (but not limited to) asbestos, mould, lead, PCBs, ODSs, mercury and silica.
• Collecting samples pertaining to the above for accurate logging on chain of custody documents and submission to independent laboratories for analysis.
• Estimating quantities of hazardous materials for the purposes of abatement project planning.
• Conducting indoor air quality assessments and testing.
• Conducting industrial hygiene assessments and testing.
• Conducting site work associated with monitoring of hazardous materials abatement projects (e.g. asbestos, mould, lead), including on-site observation of contractor activities and collection of applicable air samples.
• Assisting with the operation and calibration of air quality testing equipment.
• Preparing detailed technical reports.
• Assisting with the preparation of proposals for the above-noted types of projects.
• Completing site visits and reporting for Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) field work.
• Conducting groundwater sampling and surface water sampling monitoring programs.
• Assisting with environmental remediation field work.
• Evening and weekend work may be required.
• Frequent travel within Canada (primarily Western Canada) and potentially the U.S. will be required.