The Coordinator, Environmental Services (UXO), provides environmental services, including technical advice, guidance and recommendations, to the Client-Partners on, typically, moderate complexity, scope and/or risk projects in one or more environmental services practice area. These services can be provided through in-house resources or third-party contracts. The incumbent prepares technical documents, reviews deliverables, assists in the procurement process, oversees contractor and consultant activities, and coordinates project activities to ensure overall requirements are met on time, within scope and on budget.
Primary
• Oversee contractor activity on UXO projects
• Provide contract management support and oversight on UXO projects (e.g. quality assurance, timelines, safety)
• Provide UXO technical advice during implementation, as required Act as the UXO escort for project management team sites visits Provide UXO construction support on legacy and active UXO sites
• Support the project management team during the procurement process
• Conduct and coordinate environmental work on a wide variety of projects to monitor compliance with legal and other requirements
• Provide environmental technical support for and/or lead contract initiation and management Prepare environmental reports to meet Client-Partner requirements
• Provide input to ensure the service level arrangement deliverables are met and work is completed on time and on budget
• Review and/or peer review environmental reports, statements of work and cost estimates Provide overall project management services to ensure deliverables are provided on time, within scope and on budget
• Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders
• Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate and Client-Partner expectations
Other
• Develop environmental procedures, policies and directives
• Conduct quality control procedures for service level arrangements and deliverables Support and/or lead business development activities
• Manage risk
• Perform site visit assessments
• Other duties as assigned
General and Specific Knowledge
• Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in environmental sciences and environmental engineering
• Project and risk management principles
• Health and safety management
Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience
Minimum: college diploma in biology, environment sciences, environmental engineering or related field with four years’ relevant experience, or the equivalent; a Canadian Forces Basic Explosives Ordnance Disposal (HA) certificate or equivalent.
Preferred: university degree in environmental science, environmental engineering or related field and/or specialized knowledge, training and certification (as applicable) in one or more environmental services practice area
Abilities
• Use applicable computer software and operating systems
• Create databases
• Apply project and risk management techniques
Development and Leadership
• Provide functional advice and guidance to employees and to Client-Partners
Working Conditions
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Working with us offers excellent opportunities for growth and advancement—and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages valued at between 25 and 30% of your salary.
Your package includes:
Health and Wellness
Home and Family
Leave and Retirement
To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.
DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process. Typically to be eligible for a "Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening.
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