Your impact
Responsibilities of the Role:
- Collaborate with project managers to define the scope of the ecological assessment, identifying key ecological features and potential impacts.
- Undertake desktop studies to define scope and methodology of ecological field studies, based on requirements set out in the Tailored Impact Statement Guidance
- Support the GIS team and E&S Data Manager in defining aquatic ecological data architecture.
- Undertake impact analysis based on data from field studies, Indigenous knowledge, and stakeholder engagement.
- Provide input into alignment development and design of the railway and associated works, as part of a multi-criteria assessment process and other design review and assurance processes.
- Support the wider Design Team in recommending suitable mitigation and compensation measures to minimise significant impacts to aquatic habitats or species.
- Support Impact Assessment Manager and others with meaningful engagement with key environmental stakeholders, including IAAC, other federal and provincial agencies, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and other local environmental groups.
- Prepare aquatic ecological sections of Impact Statement.
- Assist the Permits, Licenses, and Approvals (PLA) team to identify and obtain necessary PLAs required to undertake site investigation, early or advanced works or construction works.
- Prepare guidance and provide assurance during construction to ensure compliance with ecological mitigation measures, conditions of the Decision Statement and any conditions defined in PLAs.
- Oversee any required long-term ecological monitoring during and post-construction, to assess the recovery of impact habitats and the success of mitigation and compensation measures.
Here's what you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in science or environmental studies, university or equivalent
- Minimum 4 years of applicable experience
- For Ontario position: Training and experience identifying flora and fauna of Ontario (e.g. plants, birds, mammals, insects, etc.)
- For Ontario position: Ontario-based certifications or training (e.g. Ecological Land Classification, Butternut Health Assessment, Ontario Wetland Evaluation System
- For Montreal position: Training and experience identifying flora and fauna of Quebec (e.g. plants, birds, mammals, insects, etc.)
- Experience conducting biological/environmental field work, such as terrestrial vegetation surveys, wetland evaluations, wildlife surveys, breeding bird surveys, Species at Risk habitat screenings and habitat assessments
- Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools and GIS mapping systems
- Bi-lingual is an asset
- Must have driver’s license and clean driver’s abstract.
- Experience in a variety of project delivery models considered an asset
