Early Professional, Water Quality

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The Opportunity

Shape the Future of Water Resources – Join a team that helps clients solve complex water quality challenges that directly impact communities, ecosystems, and the environment. As a Water Quality Scientist, you'll apply advanced modelling techniques and scientific expertise to support major infrastructure, watershed, environmental, and climate resilience projects across Canada. You'll work alongside environmental scientists, geochemists, engineers, biologists, and planners to deliver innovative solutions that help protect and manage our most valuable natural resource.

What you can expect to do here:

• Develop and apply surface water, mine water, and water quality models to support mining projects across all stages of development, from exploration and environmental assessment through operations and closure.
• Design and support water quality monitoring programs, including baseline characterization, environmental effects monitoring, compliance monitoring, and adaptive management programs.
• Analyze, manage, and interpret large water quality datasets to support environmental impact assessments, regulatory approvals, permitting applications, and operational decision-making.
• Analyze hydrodynamic, water quality, and environmental datasets to support project planning, design, assessment, and regulatory approvals.
• Evaluate contaminant fate and transport, metal loading, nutrient dynamics, mixing zones, assimilative capacity, and receiving environment responses to mine-related discharges.
• Support water quality predictions and effects assessments for environmental assessment and permitting processes, including federal and provincial regulatory reviews.
• Collaborate with hydro geologists, geochemists, hydrologists, aquatic biologists, engineers, and environmental assessment specialists to develop integrated and defensible solutions for mining clients.
• Contribute to technical reports, impact assessment chapters, regulatory submissions, permit applications, and presentations that effectively communicate complex scientific findings.
• Prepare technical reports, modelling documentation, visualizations, and presentations that clearly communicate complex results.
• Apply rigorous QA/QC procedures to environmental datasets and contribute to the development of defensible technical conclusions and regulatory commitments.

What you'll bring to WSP:

• Bachelor's or graduate degree in Environmental Science, Water Science, Water Resources Engineering, Hydrology, or a related discipline.
• Experience assessing water quality data in mining environments
• Experience developing and applying water quality and hydrodynamic models for lakes, rivers, estuaries, watersheds, or municipal systems.
• Experience with industry modelling software such as Gold Sim, CE-QUAL-W2, WASP, MIKE, HEC-RAS, QUAL2K, EFDC, Delft3D, or similar tools is an asset.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and data management skills.
• Experience using GIS, Python, R, or other tools for data analysis and visualization.
• Eligibility for registration or registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) is considered an asset.
• A passion for solving complex environmental challenges through science and innovation.

Why Choose WSP?

We exist to shape communities and advance humanity.

• Proudly Canadian, with a global network of technical experts and industry leaders.
• Meaningful work that supports environmental stewardship, climate resilience, and sustainable development.
• Opportunities to collaborate on high-profile and technically challenging projects across Canada and beyond.
• Flexible work options that support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive benefits, virtual healthcare, wellness programs, and savings plans.
• Limitless opportunities for growth, development, and career advancement.

Compensation

AB, BC, NT, NU, SK, & YT - $30.80 - $40.80

MB & ON - $28.10 - $38.70

NB, NL, NS, PE & QC - $27.80 - $36.90

Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills,…