Senior Mining Hydrogeologist

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Your Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Mining Hydrogeologist to join our Canadian hydrogeology team with an opportunity to reside in one of our hydrogeology centered offices (St. Johns, NFLD; Fredericton, NS; Waterloo, ON; Winnipeg, MB; Edmonton, AB; Calgary, AB; Burnaby, BC). The position will join the Hydrogeology Technical Team of Stantec’s Environmental Services Business Line.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Hydrogeologist, you will play a key role in a wide variety of mining projects and must be able to work within multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, hydrogeologic assessments and contaminant investigations, and rehabilitation projects. The role will involve managing a multi-discipline scope of work within a team of hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and geochemists and interacting directly with clients. Strong quantitative hydrogeology skills are required with the ability to interact with groundwater modeling and geochemical specialists.

The key responsibilities for this position include\:

• Follow safe work practices and adhere to company and client guidelines and policies for planning and executing work in a safe manner.
• Prepare proposals, develop work plans, schedules, and budgets and management of projects/tasks.
• Develop preliminary conceptual hydrogeological models to support field program design.
• Design and oversee implementation of hydrogeology field investigations including drilling and logging of overburden and bedrock core, sampling of soil and bedrock.
• Complete laboratory and field investigations following applicable regulatory guidelines (e.g. the Mine Environment Neutral Drainage (MEND) guidelines, Metal and Diamond Mining Effluent Regulations, Ontario Regulation 240/00, etc)
• Support development of fate and transport models to support environmental impact assessments, remedial evaluations and risk assessments.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, groundwater and surface water assessments and contaminant investigations, and rehabilitation projects.
• Prepare technical reports and client presentations summarizing project work, findings and recommendations.
• Travel as required to various field sites with overnight travel sometimes required.
• Advanced skills in technical writing.
• Demonstrate sound understanding and application of established practices, standards, and guidelines.
• Assignments/projects are advanced in nature and require the application of mature knowledge.