Intermediate Aquatic Scientist, Water Quality Specialist

## Intermediate Aquatic Scientist, Water Quality Specialist Apply:
CAN-Alberta-Calgary:
CAN-Alberta-Edmonton:
CAN-Alberta-Grande Prairie:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
R8808#
** About Us
** At Onterris, we build careers grounded in purpose, responsibility and real-world impact.“For Planet and Progress” is our north star that guides everything we do. We believe environmental responsibility and human progress are interconnected, interwoven and international. Our scientists, engineers, field teams, consultants and professionals collaborate across disciplines and geographies, guiding industries and governments, ensuring that communities and environments thrive.

When you join us, you’re not just forging a career, you’re joining a movement. A movement for better thinking, smarter solutions and lasting impact.

Together, we will advance our way of life and protect the integrity of our environment every step of the way.# A Day in the Life  As an
** Aquatic Scientist (Water Quality)**, you will join one of our Alberta offices (Edmonton, Calgary or Grande Prairie) as part of our Wildlife and Aquatics team.

The compensation range for this role is $32.50 to $42.50, commensurate with experience, skills, and geographic location.  To thrive in this role, you will be comfortable taking ownership of the following responsibilities:
* Be an active Aquatics Team member and contribute to a growing and collaborative team of biologists, hydrologists and aquatic scientists participating in discipline specific and multi-disciplinary projects.
* Engage as a Water Quality Discipline Lead role on routine and complex projects that require surface water and sediment quality sampling, data analysis and reporting. These projects may include aquatic environmental effects monitoring, aquatic environmental risk assessments, environmental impact assessments, and routine operational monitoring programs for the power, mines, oil and gas facilities, and pipelines industries.
* Collaborate with other aquatic and terrestrial disciplines on complex projects to assess aquatic environmental effects (e.g., benthic invertebrate assessments, wetland projects, aquatic ecology projects, etc.).
* Taking on and leading field work is desirable; may be required to lead/oversee the application of specialized sampling methodologies related to water and sediment sampling.
* Work under the guidance of senior staff members.
* Apply diligence in conducting field data collection using standard and/or approved methods consistent with project objectives and QA/QC methods.
* Take guidance from technical senior staff to apply Onterris norms and best practices for managing and analyzing data, and reporting.
* Support field crews from the office in a timely manner with any required assistance to ensure field programs are carried out successfully. This may include writing field work plans, confirming scopes, coordinating with labs to prep for field work (e.g., sample bottle orders, etc.), sample tracking, updating field maps, and facilitating communications between field teams with project managers and technical accountables.
* Interact and work with a community of technical experts from other Onterris regions in Western Canada.
* Interact with extensive, long-standing clients within local and regional government, conservation authorities, academia, and private industry.
* Actively participate in maintaining the strong safety culture at Onterris.# Your Expertise and Skills  These requirements reflect the knowledge, skills and abilities that help you do your best work here.  
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or technical diploma in environmental science, biology related field.
* Eligible for professional designation in a relevant organization (i.e., B.I.T., P. Biol., P.…