Biologist

Overview

Are you someone with strong leadership and technical capabilities? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a thought leader, a trusted advisor and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.

Dillon’s Natural Resource Management Discipline is seeking a Biologist to fill a new position within our multidisciplinary team of professionals. You will have the opportunity to work on new and exciting projects while providing clients with a fully integrated and superior customer experience.

At Dillon, we operate as one team. The successful candidate can be based at any one of the following offices:
Kingston or Ottawa.

We offer flexible work hours to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

• Coordinate programs, projects and technical studies for the natural environment component of a variety of projects.
• Preparation of technical reports and memos related to natural heritage systems on various sites, as required.
• Completion of field surveys as required and aligned with experience and skill set throughout Southern Ontario to collect field data (surveys may include but are not limited to ecological land classification, aquatic assessments, vegetation including tree inventories, wildlife surveys such as amphibians and birds and soil or water quality sampling).
• Provide oversight to project team members including natural scientists, technologists and technical support staff.
• Support stakeholder and regulator engagement.
• Support permitting and approvals acquisition activities at the local, provincial and federal level related to natural heritage (e.g., Endangered Species Act, Species at Risk Act, Conservation Authorities Act, Fisheries Act, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act).
• Business travel upon request.

• A commitment to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development.
• Input to the career development of junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring.
• Contribute to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.

• A diploma or certificate in a related environmental sciences field. An undergraduate degree in biology, ecology or a related environmental sciences field would be an asset.
• Professional experience in an environmental consulting, industrial, regulatory, or academic setting.
• Valid driver’s license.

• Experience in executing field programs as part of environmental studies.
• Experience in executing aquatic field programs considered an asset.
• Experience in preparation of Environmental Impact Studies and supporting applications under the Planning Act.
• Experience in preparation of Environmental Reports for EA.
• Experience in the preparation of other regulatory applications and submissions resulting in the successful acquisition of permits and approvals.
• Understanding of the application of Best Management Practices to environmental compliance and effectiveness monitoring programs.
• Excellent oral and written communication, report writing, critical thinking, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Experience interacting directly with a variety of clients and team members to execute project delivery.

$65,000 - $90,000

Dillon is including the salary range that we in good faith believe may offer for this position. It will be dependent on the successful applicant’s education, experience, and skills, in addition to internal equity and geographic region. Dillon reserves the right to pay outside of the posted range, contingent on factors unrelated to an applicant’s gender or other status protected by provincial and/or federal law.

• Employee share purchase plan
• A competitive compensation package
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Generous retirement savings plan
  • Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer…