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 Guidelines.
- Support the GIS team and ecology team in defining terrestrial ecological data architecture.
- Undertake impact analysis based on data from field studies, Indigenous knowledge, and stakeholder engagement.
- Provide input into infrastructure development and design 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 terrestrial 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 terrestrial ecological sections of Impact Statement.
- Assist the PLA (permits, licenses, approvals) 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 three years of applicable experience
- Training and experience identifying flora and fauna of Quebec (e.g. plants, birds, mammals, insects, etc.)
- Experience conducting biological/environmental field work, such as aquatic habitat surveys, wetland evaluations, fish surveys, Species at Risk habitat screenings and habitat assessments
- Proficient in Microsoft suite of tools and GIS mapping systems
- Fluent in French
- Must have driver’s license and clean driver’s abstract
- Experience in a variety of project delivery models considered an asset
- Experience working within a designed or built-up environment
