Water Resource Engineer

Job Responsibility:

Okane is an integrated engineering and geoscience consulting company with a global team across Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand.

We help mining companies to return mine-affected land responsibly and safely at the end of a mine's lifecycle. We believe in challenging the status quo and advocate for meaningful partnerships and positive outcomes for community stakeholders and Indigenous rightsholders.

Our solutions are led by a team of interdisciplinary experts spanning various engineering, science, and technology-based fields, including community and stakeholder engagement, mine planning, mine closure design, geotechnical and civil engineering, geology, geochemistry, hydrology and hydrogeology, soil sciences, rehabilitation, revegetation, and environmental monitoring.

Why Choose Us?

We champion diversity and inclusion. We believe in flexibility, work-life balance, and an open-door approach to communication. We provide employees with the tools to succeed and grow with the company and benefits that ensure our employees have the means to feel fulfilled.

Okane's purpose is to ‘Help Create a Better Tomorrow'. Our workplace culture is defined by the everyday behaviors of our team and driven by our core values: Passionate, Thoughtful & Caring, Smart & Clever, Positive, and Humble .

Our employees enjoy:

• Competitive salary and performance incentive.

• Annual vacation time.

• Paid sick days.

• Health and dental coverage.

• Health spending account.

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.

• Growth and advancement opportunities along with an annual allowance for professional development.

• Flexible workplace policy, including maternity and parental leave top-ups and flexibility when returning to work.

• Being a part of an organization recognized as one of the Top Employers of Saskatchewan (2023) & one of Canada's top Small & Medium Employers (2023).

Our Next Intermediate Consultant - Water Resource Engineer...

We have an exciting opportunity for an Intermediate Consultant to join our Water Stewardship team. This role will work to find innovative water management solutions for mine closure at all stages in the mine life for our clients. The role will work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop water balance models, design water management infrastructure and perform analyses to predict the performance of and interactions between mine waste storage facilities, mine site configurations, water management systems and the receiving environment.

Our next Intermediate Consultant - Water Resource Engineer will have experience in water balance modelling, hydrology and hydraulics analyses, design and assessment of surface water infrastructure design, and solid communication and report writing skills. This position will be located in our offices in Saskatoon or Calgary, with remote options available in Vancouver and Montréal.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Apply a fundamental understanding of principles and parameters that control performance of mine closure systems to develop conceptual models for communication to project teams, stakeholders, and clients.
• Develop site-wide surface water balance models.
• Design and assess surface water infrastructure.
• Perform climate, hydrology and hydraulics analyses.
• Contribute to the development of water quality models.
• Support and contribute to the set up of analytical and numerical analysis tools to complete detailed analysis to verify conceptual models of mine closure performance. Analysis could include climate, hydrologic or hydrotechnical interpretation.
• Provide guidance for the planning and execution of field investigations to address uncertainty in model parameter inputs.
• Complete technically proficient reports that meet project requirements.
• Provide support for proposals of varying complexity in technical expertise
• Interact competently with internal and external stakeholders of varying levels of expertise.
• Foster and maintain client relationships.

Job Requirements

• Technical background in Environmental, Civil engineering or similar.
• Experience in Hydrology, Hydraulics, water infrastructure design, and water balance modelling.
• Experience using HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, GoldSim and other numerical modelling programs is considered an asset.
• Experience in developing water quality models is an asset
• Knowledge of regulations, codes and standards including relevant professional procedures and practices.
• Possess leadership skills and abilities including communication, accountability, honesty, empathy, creativity, responsibility, and flexibility.
• Experience and aptitude for multidisciplinary work and dynamic team environments.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills - business and technical writing.
• Embody Okane's Core Vision (Help Create a Better Tomorrow) and Values (Passionate, Smart and Clever, Positive, Thoughtful and Caring, and Humble).
• Ensure Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines in the execution of all work.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Okane is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment where every employee feels valued, respected, and has a sense of belonging. A diverse workforce is critical to our success, and we believe in bringing your whole self to work. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply and hope you will choose Okane as your employer. If you require an adjustment during the recruitment/interview process, please let the HR Team know, and we will work with you to meet your needs. For more information about Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, please click here Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • Okane Consultants.

Application Deadline

We welcome all qualified applicants to submit their Cover letter and CV by March 31st 2025 . We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. However, those candidates who are selected will be contacted. We thank you for your interest in Okane.

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