Senior Fisheries Biologist
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. We are a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that’s critical to our clients and the communities we support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.
Your Opportunity
The Ecosystems Team has an opportunity for a Senior Fisheries Biologist in one of our southern Ontario offices. The successful candidate will join our team of aquatic and terrestrial biologists who value teamwork and enjoy working in an environment with diverse and dynamic projects.
Stantec has a flexible workplace strategy, which allows staff to flexibly work between home and office.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Manage tasks and projects according to approved scopes of work, and deliver quality reports on schedule and within budget
- Collaboration with other teams and Project Managers to plan, coordinate and deliver field programs that meet the project objectives
- Conduct site visits or occasionally assist with field data collection
- Prepare and/or contribute to technical reports, including writing, coordinating, and analyzing large datasets
- Prepare materials for regulatory agency reviews and correspond with regulatory agency staff regarding provincial and/or federal permits and authorizations for fish, fish habitat, and aquatic species at risk
- Contribute to proposals and other business development activities
- Understand current practices and techniques for sampling and analysis of fish communities, fish habitat and water quality data from aquatic environments
- Background data review and interpretation, including familiarity with provincial and federal online databases summarizing watercourse and water body information, and fish community and aquatic species at risk data
- Participate in and apply Stantec’s Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) Policies, Procedures, Standards and Guidelines in the execution of all work