Experienced Environmental Technician

The Opportunity: 

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 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. 

  Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of Inclusion and Belonging
• Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
• Our Hybrid Work Policy - a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future. 

#WeAreWSP

What you can expect to do here: 

• 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 neighbours 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 understand project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to your project manager, project directors, mentors and developing 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.
• Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, support the development and improvement of 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 75%)
• Gain the experience to plan, lead or work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western and Northern Canada

What you'll bring to WSP: 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Diploma related to environmental industry with environmental experience will also be considered
• 4 to 7 years experience in the environmental industry
• Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industry including ground disturbance training and experience
• Can't get enough of the outdoors and fieldwork (up to 75%) and understand office work is also part of the job
• You would like to be paid to see and explore different parts of Western, Eastern and Northern Canada,  
• Have a passion for understanding environmental contaminant conceptual site models, and applying logic and experience to identify and characterize contaminants of concern on sites
• Volunteered (and also somehow chosen) to be the leader of your class projects
• Have excellent communication skills and are the default person coordinating activities with your friends and family
• Likes to rub soil on their teeth to texture it (but doesn't because it might be contaminated)
• Can't get enough learning