Top Benefits
About the role
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. Our Environmental Services Group is a significant part of Stantec’s success and employs over 3,000 staff across North America. Our dedicated group of professionals provide a wide variety of environmental services and are recognized as leaders in the industry. Stantec is devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.
Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment
Your Opportunity
Stantec has an opportunity for a Senior Hydrogeologist to join our Environmental Services team. The position will ideally be located in Waterloo, Ontario but there is flexibility for our other offices in Ontario. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and ready to engage in providing our clients with high-quality solutions while learning and growing both as an individual and as part of a team.
As a Senior Hydrogeologist, you will play a key role in a wide variety of physical and chemical hydrogeology projects, which will likely focus on support for mining projects and permitting, but may include water supply studies, hydrologic and hydrogeologic assessments, and dewatering studies.
Stantec supports your career growth with:
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Excellent and comprehensive benefits for healthcare and dental.
- Wellness plans to support mental, physical, social and financial well-being.
- Registered retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan, both with employer contributions.
- Formalized career planning and development process.
Your Key Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities will be related to performing key tasks to support/lead hydrogeology projects or components of projects.
- Promote a strong health and safety culture and actively participate in Stantec’s Health, Safety, Security, and Environment Program
- Prepare proposals, develop work plans/budgets and manage projects/tasks
- Plan, coordinate, and support field programs, including intrusive investigations
- Develop conceptual hydrogeologic models and understanding
- Review field information from investigations; prepare reports, including the interpretation of geological/hydrogeological conditions
- Interpret aquifer tests, characterize aquifers based on maps and other spatial data
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, groundwater and surface water assessments, groundwater flow and transport models, and contaminant investigations
- Prepare technical reports and client presentations summarizing project work, findings, and recommendations.
- Perform QA/QC of technical documents/deliverables
- Travel as required to various field sites; overnight travel sometimes required
- Demonstrate sound application of established practices, standards, and guidelines
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Ability to meet a strong demand for high-quality, organized, and consistent results
- Demonstrates strong initiative and is capable of independent action with the ability to make informed decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and advanced technical report writing skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills in balancing immediate and long-term work with varying priorities and deadlines
- Fundamental understanding of project-task management
- Proficient computer skills are a must, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Valid driver’s license is required for business travel
- Experience with numerical groundwater flow and transport modeling is considered an asset
- Knowledge of mine and environmental regulations and policies is considered an asset
- General knowledge in groundwater chemistry for mine-related projects an asset
Education and Experience
Post-secondary educational background, ideally M.Sc., specializing in a Geoscience or Engineering program with an emphasis on hydrogeology.
Minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience in consulting or regulatory environment, regularly using and analyzing hydrogeologic data
Professional registration or eligibility is required (P.Geo. or P.Eng.)
Valid Driver’s License required
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.
Top Benefits
About the role
Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields with dedication, a creative spirit, and a vision for growth. Our Environmental Services Group is a significant part of Stantec’s success and employs over 3,000 staff across North America. Our dedicated group of professionals provide a wide variety of environmental services and are recognized as leaders in the industry. Stantec is devoted to fostering a community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. Here, you can apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental professionals on work that’s vital to our clients and the communities they serve.
Join a team that’s naturally committed to the environment
Your Opportunity
Stantec has an opportunity for a Senior Hydrogeologist to join our Environmental Services team. The position will ideally be located in Waterloo, Ontario but there is flexibility for our other offices in Ontario. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and ready to engage in providing our clients with high-quality solutions while learning and growing both as an individual and as part of a team.
As a Senior Hydrogeologist, you will play a key role in a wide variety of physical and chemical hydrogeology projects, which will likely focus on support for mining projects and permitting, but may include water supply studies, hydrologic and hydrogeologic assessments, and dewatering studies.
Stantec supports your career growth with:
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Excellent and comprehensive benefits for healthcare and dental.
- Wellness plans to support mental, physical, social and financial well-being.
- Registered retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan, both with employer contributions.
- Formalized career planning and development process.
Your Key Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities will be related to performing key tasks to support/lead hydrogeology projects or components of projects.
- Promote a strong health and safety culture and actively participate in Stantec’s Health, Safety, Security, and Environment Program
- Prepare proposals, develop work plans/budgets and manage projects/tasks
- Plan, coordinate, and support field programs, including intrusive investigations
- Develop conceptual hydrogeologic models and understanding
- Review field information from investigations; prepare reports, including the interpretation of geological/hydrogeological conditions
- Interpret aquifer tests, characterize aquifers based on maps and other spatial data
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, groundwater and surface water assessments, groundwater flow and transport models, and contaminant investigations
- Prepare technical reports and client presentations summarizing project work, findings, and recommendations.
- Perform QA/QC of technical documents/deliverables
- Travel as required to various field sites; overnight travel sometimes required
- Demonstrate sound application of established practices, standards, and guidelines
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Ability to meet a strong demand for high-quality, organized, and consistent results
- Demonstrates strong initiative and is capable of independent action with the ability to make informed decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and advanced technical report writing skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills in balancing immediate and long-term work with varying priorities and deadlines
- Fundamental understanding of project-task management
- Proficient computer skills are a must, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Valid driver’s license is required for business travel
- Experience with numerical groundwater flow and transport modeling is considered an asset
- Knowledge of mine and environmental regulations and policies is considered an asset
- General knowledge in groundwater chemistry for mine-related projects an asset
Education and Experience
Post-secondary educational background, ideally M.Sc., specializing in a Geoscience or Engineering program with an emphasis on hydrogeology.
Minimum of 10 years of relevant working experience in consulting or regulatory environment, regularly using and analyzing hydrogeologic data
Professional registration or eligibility is required (P.Geo. or P.Eng.)
Valid Driver’s License required
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.