Junior Hydrogeologist
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Why WSP? Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things. WSP has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Hydrogeologist to join our mining Hydrogeology team on a full-time basis based in Vancouver BC. Candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Hydrogeology, geology, geological engineering, engineering geology, environmental engineering or related discipline and an interest in working on hydrogeological projects in the mining industry. A day in the life...
- Travel to exciting domestic and international locations for fieldwork assignments in hydrogeology;
- Contribute to the planning, management, and reporting of hydrogeological field investigations, including drilling, sampling, well installation, and testing;
- Lead field crews in planning, logistics, and equipment calibration;
- Ensure personal and team safety during field operations;
- Manage data entry, analysis, and interpretation, demonstrating strong organizational skills in prioritization, time management, and record keeping;
- Conducting site investigations, such as:
- Installing monitoring wells, pumping wells, and vibrating wire piezometers;
- Undertaking hydrogeological test work (packer testing, pumping tests rising/falling head tests);
- Supervising drilling and logging drill core/ chips;
- Sampling wells for water quality purposes;
- Data compilation, analysis and interpretation;
- Analyzing geological, geochemical, and geophysical data, including well logs, hydrogeological survey data, and groundwater monitoring data, to develop conceptual hydrogeological models;
- Developing and applying groundwater flow models to estimate inflows to open pits, underground mines and perform seepage analyses;
- Working with multidisciplinary teams to integrate hydrogeological findings and interpretations with those of other scientific, planning, and engineering disciplines;
- Contributing to technical reports, proposals and technical specifications.
- A Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Geology/Hydrogeology, Environmental Engineering or Civil Engineering, with demonstrated course work or thesis in physical hydrogeology and/or geochemistry and geophysics
- An interest in developing work and project experience in hydrogeology within the mining industry
- You enjoy fieldwork and like to work autonomously - think the opposite of your standard 9-5 desk job!
- You want to experience what it's like to work for the leading environmental consulting firm globally and be part of a growing and thriving team!
- We value our people and our reputation
- We are locally dedicated with international scale
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo
- We foster collaboration in everything we do
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable
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