Senior Hydrogeologist

Stantec Consulting International Ltd. is seeking a highly skilled Senior Hydrogeologist to join our environmental services team in British Columbia. As a key member of our Hydrogeology Technical Team, you will play a critical role in a wide variety of mining projects, working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams on baseline and impact assessment projects, feasibility studies, hydrogeologic assessments, and contaminant investigations, and rehabilitation projects.

• Manage a multi-discipline scope of work within a team of hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and geochemists, interacting directly with clients.
• Develop preliminary conceptual hydrogeological models to support field program design.
• Design and oversee implementation of hydrogeology field investigations, including drilling and logging of overburden and bedrock core, sampling of soil and bedrock.
• Support development of numerical groundwater models to support environmental impact assessments, remedial evaluations, and risk assessments.
• Prepare technical reports and client presentations summarizing project work, findings, and recommendations.
• Travel as required to various field sites with overnight travel sometimes required.

• Excellent communication skills: verbal, business writing, electronic communications, and presentations.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and mentor junior and intermediate staff.
• Team player able to work cooperatively and effectively to develop solutions to unique problems that often involve multiple technical disciplines.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, changing priorities, and deliver on time and within budget.
• Strong business development, client management, communication, and financial management skills are essential.
• Maintain a disciplined approach to project execution and technical excellence.
• Possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to make timely decisions.
• Possess proficient skills in communication and technical information exchange with clients, engineers, and scientists, government regulators and agencies, and academia, as well as non-technical communication to the public.
• Possess good knowledge of water and groundwater-related acts and regulations.
• Overall well-rounded experience in both environmental and geotechnical applications of hydrogeology, particularly with mining and resource development.
• Proficiency with numerical groundwater modeling software is considered an asset.

• Minimum undergraduate degree directly related to hydrogeology (Geology, Geological, Geotechnical, or Civil Engineering).
• A graduate degree related to hydrogeology is considered a strong asset.
• A minimum of 10 years of mining-related hydrogeological experience.
• Existing professional registration (P.Geo. or P.Eng.) or eligible to do so within one year of starting position.