Coordinator, Environment Water Treatment

Closing Date: July 2, 2024

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of passionate professionals and work with Teck’s Active Water Treatment technology, which represents some of the most advanced selenium and nitrate removal technology in the world. This position will be part of a team of hard-working professionals in a growing and technically exciting field to advance the objectives of Teck’s Elk Valley Water Quality Plan!  

Reporting to the Lead, Environment Water Treatment, the Coordinator, Environment Water Treatment is responsible for providing operations and project support for the West Line Creek Active Water Treatment Facility (WLC AWTF). 

To be successful, we are looking for someone with strong interpersonal and communication skills, who can build positive relationships and demonstrate diligence, integrity, and environmental leadership. This person thrives in a fast-paced team environment and can prioritize and organize contending demands. Most importantly, we require an individual with outstanding analytical and decision-making abilities, who can identify and understand regulatory and environmental risks and find practical solutions.  

Join us in the breathtaking Elk Valley of British Columbia. Here you will find outdoor adventure at your fingertips. Whether it's biking and skiing, or the laidback atmosphere of fishing and hiking, there is something for everyone! Working a compressed work week with alternating Fridays off, come experience what work life balance is all about! 

Responsibilities:

• Be a courageous safety leader, adhere to and sponsor safety and environmental rules and procedures
• Develop, review, and implement operational plans, management plans, best management practices, procedures and work instructions 
• Prepare and coordinate the submission of internal and external reports including the quarterly and annual treatment performance reports 
• Coordinate sampling programs for baseline monitoring, support monitoring programs and ongoing operations, and review monitoring program data and consultant reports 
• Manage and analyze data including conducting QA/QC 
• Develop, review, and implement site specific compliance and environmental monitoring programs, data management systems and sampling and lab monitoring procedures 
• Understand applicable commitments, permits and associated requirements to inform management decisions and actions 
• Develop and provide environmental training to project and operations teams
• Contribute to project application reviews, hazard assessments and guide the development of complex risk reduction programs for upcoming projects and facility expansions
• Provide environmental support during pre-commissioning and commissioning of facility expansions

Qualifications: 

• Degree or Diploma in an Environmental Science subject area 
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the field of environmental compliance or monitoring in the water treatment or resource management fields 
• Technical knowledge of relevant environmental legislation, standards, and effective industry practices related to water management and resource development 
• Experience with environmental data management software and proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite®; especially Excel 
• Knowledge of environmental science, environmental engineering, biology, chemistry, water quality, water treatment, or fisheries is an asset 
• Experience in water treatment is an asset  
• EQuIS experience is an asset