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Natural Resource Specialist 4
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Revelstoke DO
Employment type: Permanent Region: Southern Interior
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Field
Annual salary: $ 95,100.00 - 102,500.00
What you'll do
- Prepares documentation, budgets, terms of reference, standards, guidelines and contract specifications, etc. for, and
oversees, inspects and administers a full range of biological resource and environmental protection measures for major,
large, complex programs and projects to satisfy environmental plans and objectives, regulatory requirements, contract
specification
- Undertakes in-depth studies to determine the environmental impact of major, large and complex programs and future
Hydro facilities.
- Develops standards and strategies for parameters influencing the biological environment; prepares recommendations to
enhance consistency and quality of standards. Responds to unforeseen environmental concerns not covered by existing
regulations for standards.
- Ensures consistency in environmental inspection protocols, report preparation, liaison with outside groups and within BC
Hydro including project, field and resource staff.
- Facilitates meetings with government agency representatives from various Ministries and branches to determine and
incorporate routine regulatory requirements and options for compliance.
- Is deployed to the field to respond to unforeseen environmental concerns by coordinating mitigation and managing related
communication inside and outside BC Hydro.
- Provides technical direction to external consultants, crew leaders and staff in lower-level Natural Resource positions
engaged in environmental inspection and related activities, to ensure consistency, quality control requirements, standards,
guidelines.
- Provides work leadership to and performs all the functions of the Natural Resource Specialist 3 job.
- Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job.
What you bring
- Completion of a Bachelor degree in Natural Resource or Environmental Studies with at least eight (8) years of relevant
work experience or as an equivalent, completion of Technologist Diploma in Natural Resources or Environmental Studies
with nine (9) years of relevant work experience.
- Must be eligible for membership with the College of Applied Biology.
- Valid BC Driver’s License required.
What we offer