Environmental Technician

Environmental Technician

Department: Geoscience

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Windsor, ON

Reporting To: Timothy Boc

Compensation: CA $55,000 - CA $65,000 / year

RWDI is a global climate and performance engineering consulting firm that helps its clients redefine what’s possible by overcoming design and operational challenges, while minimizing environmental, user, and resource impact. With deep technical expertise across a broad range of services, we drive success on ambitious building, industry, and infrastructure projects.

We are a values-based organization, which means everything we do relates back to our three core values: innovation, integrity, and integration. So, when we look for new people to join our team, alignment to these values is a vital piece of our people puzzle. Here’s what this looks like:

• You push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• People know they can rely on you to follow through on your commitments.
• You believe that when a group of people come together, they can achieve more than any one person could alone.

If this sounds like you and you’re ready to join an award-winning organization and work alongside renown technical and exceptionally innovative colleagues, RWDI is the place for you.

RWDI is seeking an energetic individual to join our Geoscience team in Windsor, as a permanent full-time Environmental Technician. Work will focus on projects in the Southern Ontario area.

The role includes but is not limited to the following duties:

• Environmental and hydrogeological testing including aquifer characterization, and environmental media sampling such as soil, groundwater, surface water, vapor, and other regulated materials.
• Undertaking Phased Environmental Site Assessments and Remediation under the supervision of senior staff.
• Oversight of subcontractors including utility locators, drilling contractors (direct push, hollow stem auger, sonic, and coring), remediation contractors, and surveyors.
• Drilling oversight including detailed environmental and geotechnical logging of soil and bedrock core, as well as monitoring well installation per relevant regulations.
• Undertaking compliance monitoring programs including groundwater, surface water, leachate, landfill gas, air quality, and noise monitoring.
• Undertaking data management, analysis, and interpretation, as well as technical reporting and related documents including calculations, analyses, summary tables, and figures.
• Interpretation of relevant environmental regulations, including but not limited to Ontario Regulations 153/04 and 406/19.
• Consulting with, as well as answering technical questions from colleagues and project managers.
• Evening and weekend work may be required.
• Travel is required.

We are accepting applications from candidates with the following qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in environmental science, engineering, or technology.
• 0 to 2 years of applicable experience in conducting field programs for environmental site assessment, compliance monitoring, and hydrogeological testing within the Province of Ontario.
• Experience using various environmental data analysis tools and software, as well as AutoCAD/GIS applications

Additional attributes considered an asset:

• Eligibility for registration with the Professional Engineers Ontario (P.Eng.), Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, (P.Geo.), or The Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT).

Candidates should also possess:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong people and team skills as well as being highly motivated.
• Proven problem-solving ability and resourcefulness.
• An ability to work in a fast-paced team environment with little to no…