Environmental Engineering-In-Training

The Remediation Program Management t eam is your opportunity to apply your skills and join a diverse and growing team within WSP supporting our key clients. We are seeking team members who are ready to build a career, say yes to new opportunities, and bring and share new ideas in solving the biggest environmental remediation challenges for our biggest clients. Formulate your career development plan and interact with and find mentors within our 67,000 person company to bond with over the technical, client and project delivery activities that interest you. Join our team and support our passion for environmental remediation, characterization and reclamation; saving the planet one site at a time.

A typical day in the life at WSP for the Environmental Engineer-in-Training

• Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying and expanding your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
• As a part of our team, we each bring our lived experiences in hand, where we have the power to design a place where people, friends, families and neighbours can thrive.
• Maintain a work-life balance, logging in remotely or attending the office in a hybrid work solution of 3 days a week in the office.
• Clearly identify and understand project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to your project manager, project directors, mentors and developing well understood specific work instructions and health and safety plans.
• Develop your career by having several different mentors to plan, adjust and grow your career at WSP.
• Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, support the development and improvement of project health and safety plans.
• Participate and be a member of a 10-20 person client-specific delivery team, while at the same time leveraging the experience and expertise of the entire RPM group.
• Have a really complex technical issue? Engage with a Practice Area Network (PAN) who may have experienced the same issue in Australia, Malaysia, or even exotic locations like Saskatoon.
• Apply your love for the outdoors and complete fieldwork assignments centered around the Alberta foothills, and at locations within Western/Northern Canada (up to 50%)
Gain the experience to plan, lead or work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western and Northern Canada

Qualities and Qualifications

You’re the type of person who has one or more of these qualities:

• Can’t get enough of the outdoors, and understand office work is also part of the job (up to 50%)
• You would like to be paid to see and explore different parts of Western and Northern Canada, then this job is for you
• Volunteered (and also somehow chosen) to be the leader of your class projects
• Have excellent communication skills and are the default person coordinating activities with your friends and family
• Likes to rub soil on their teeth to texture it (but doesn’t because it might be contaminated)
• Can’t get enough learning

You’ve got the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Diploma related to environmental industry with environmental experience will also be considered
• 0 to 2 years experience in the environmental industry
• Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industry