Mine Water Treatment Biogeochemist

The Mine Water Treatment Biogeochemist position at Integrated Sustainability in Saskatoon, SK, involves analyzing and reporting data from water treatment systems, contributing to project designs, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. The role combines 25% hands-on work with 75% desk-based tasks. Candidates should have a Master’s degree in a relevant field and 3+ years of experience. Excellent communication and analytical skills are essential.
Description:

As a Biogeochemist, you will support projects that span multiple disciplines within our organization in order to deliver high quality and sustainable solutions to our clients. You will have the opportunity to expand your career by working on exciting and high-profile mining and energy projects.

This position is an exciting opportunity that blends desk consulting work with hands-on testing and development in our one-of-a-kind facilities in Saskatoon. The role is expected to have 25% hands-on and 75% desk work on development, analysis, and reporting.

Your role will contribute to our mission of developing sustainable solutions through conducting research, studies, analysis, and quality control and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities:
• Analyze, interpret, and report on data from pilot and full-scale water treatment systems for the resources sector.
• Contribute to water management and treatment designs through calculations and science based risk assessments, including calculations related to redox reactions and biogeochemistry
• Support with water treatment projects from initial site studies to pilot and demonstration scale through to implementation.
• Apply commonly used calculations and screening parameters efficiently to water quality datasets.
• Draft figures, tables, and summary bullet points for reports and proposals.
• Technical reviews of documents written by others.
• Contribute to optimizing processes and operations.
• Maintain deadlines and timelines of projects and communicate potential timing/resourcing conflicts.
• Support the laboratory team in performing sampling and monitoring of water parameters for pilot-scale and laboratory-scale passive and semi-passive water treatment systems.
• Refine and implement processes that enhance productivity and efficiency.

Position Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in Applied/Environmental Microbiology, Geochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Earth Sciences, or a related discipline, with hands-on laboratory experience.
• Preference will be given to applicants with 3+ years of applied experience in microbiological and/or geochemical analysis within environmental, mining, or water sectors.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What We’re Looking For:

This position is a great fit for someone who’s curious and motivated to learn. It is designed to help you build a broad toolkit of skills across lab, pilot, and project work.
• Experience with spreadsheets and other data analysis and visualization methods.
• Hands-on laboratory experience, preferably including water sampling, photometers, multimeters, and dosing pumps.
• Analytical skills with the ability to interpret incoming scientific measurements.
• Scientific awareness, paying attention to real-time observations and results with proactive communication to other team members.
• Proactive, organized, and safety-conscious approach to laboratory and pilot work.
• A collaborative mindset that contributes to a positive and innovative team culture.
• You pay keen attention to detail, and in your cover letter, include a very brief description of your favourite biogeochemical reaction.

Additional skills that would be advantageous, please highlight in your cover letter which of these technical skills you possess:
• Environmental microbiological analysis (16s community).
• Technical writing.
• Non-technical scientific communications.
• Data analysis and representation.
• Statistical analysis.

Integrated Sustainability

Integrated Sustainability is an award-winning provider of world-class sustainable Water, Waste and Energy solutions. Our goal is to support clients from project conception to construction and beyond by being agile, collaborative partners.

Recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Small & Medium Employers for 7 years in a row, we believe that the people who work here matter and every opportunity we have to be a better employer is an opportunity to succeed. Having attracted a dynamic, multi-disciplined team of specialists, we believe that to be innovative, we must also be courageous, finding solutions and challenging conventional wisdom.

It’s About More Than Work

We are excited about what 2025 looks like for our organization and are looking for innovative, courageous professionals to join us.

You’ll get a competitive salary, health and dental benefits, RRSP matching, a hybrid office/remote work environment, flexible work schedule and so much more.

We strive to build a culture where every employee is valued for their unique backgrounds, experiences, expertise, skills, and passions – it’s what allows us to be leaders in innovative solutions. If you require accommodation during the selection process, please let our People & Culture team know.

We thank all candidates for their interest in Integrated Sustainability; however, only those candidates who are selected will be contacted.

Additional information

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