Environmental Technician

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London Hydro is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Environmental Technician to fill a vacancy on our team. In this role, you will provide both technical and administrative support for our environmental, sustainability, and energy conservation initiatives while helping ensure compliance with environmental regulations and corporate standards.

Key responsibilities include conducting site inspections, supporting emergency response activities, coordinating waste management programs, and assisting with environmental reporting and stakeholder engagement.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to impactful environmental programs, advance sustainability across our operations, and play an important role in protecting our community and the environment. If you are passionate about environmental stewardship and enjoy working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

• Provide technical and administrative support to corporate, divisional and departmental initiatives related to environmental programs / matters, energy conservation, waste management, and corporate sustainability.
• Conduct environmental site inspections and investigations, and prepare internal and regulatory reports.
• Perform environmental emergency response activities, including field visits, coordination with external service providers and 3rd parties, providing direct support and technical guidance to field crews and supervisors to ensure procedures are compliant with regulatory requirements and EMS processes and procedures.
• Assist in providing environmental and environmental regulation advice, information and training to site supervisors and managers, field and office staff as well as external service providers and 3rd parties.
• Assist with the liaison with the City of London, community and key stakeholders on environmental incidents and other environmental matters.
• Provide technical guidance on the coordination and compliant disposal of waste streams (e.g., hazardous waste, recycling, shredding, office, construction, cafeteria, fleet), ensuring alignment with environmental and safety requirements.
• Assist with providing quality control to ensure external contractors conform to London Hydro environmental standards and procedures. Intervene immediately as required to ensure environmental practices are being followed. Inspect, record deficiencies and discuss quality issues with the contractor’s supervisor, escalating issues to the Environmental Supervisor for resolution.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviour on a consistent day-to-day basis.
• Assemble information for regulatory and internal reporting. Coordinate, collect, verify, organize and maintain metrics/KPIs.
• Provide administrative support for departmental business processes. Prepare correspondence, memos, meeting agendas and minutes, reports, and other departmental communications. Arrange and attend appointments and meetings. Assist with environmental committees/teams and/or corporate environmental events.
• Identify and assist with improvements and digitalization to environmental systems, processes and workflows to help ensure environmental compliance, effectiveness and productivity.
• Respond efficiently and effectively to inquiries and requests for assistance from other departments.
• Receive inbound and make outbound calls from/to contractors, regulatory agencies, customers and London Hydro employees. Receive and dispatch trouble calls pertaining to environmental matters.
• Assist with documentation of environmental incidents and with the maintenance of all other departmental records. Assist with accurate and timely record-keeping and reporting in relation to compliance with relevant environmental regulations, standards, codes and internal practices.
• Assist with outreach efforts to London Hydro’s commercial, industrial, institutional and residential customers in relation to environmental and/or energy conservation programs. Coordinate with other departments to ensure prompt customer service and delivery of relevant information. Represent London Hydro at events, functions and workshops. Maintain customer relationship…