Environmental Scientist Florida

Join the Canacre team in an exciting role working on leading edge infrastructure projects.  

We are technical experts in land, energy, and transportation development delivering accurate, innovative, and agile solutions to our partners. We provide land acquisition, geospatial mapping, data management, web-based GIS, community relations, land feasibility studies, and permitting services. Canacre’s clients include developers, large scale service providers, and government entities that are involved in the planning and development of energy projects, rights of way, resources, and infrastructure across Canada and the United States. Canacre works on large-scale wind and solar power projects, high-voltage transmission lines, pipeline projects, municipal roads projects, and groupings of cellular towers and rooftop antennas.  

At Canacre, we act with honesty and integrity within a culture where trust, collaboration, and teamwork flourish. We commit to diversity, inclusivity and the celebration of successes. Our vision is to foster an environment that promotes inspired and empowered team members who make an impact.  

The Environmental Scientist provides support to the Environmental Practice working in a team orientated organization with other environmental professionals. This position will assist in field efforts involving: ecological and environmental assessments, wetland delineations, wildlife assessments, construction compliance, permitting support, among others.  Office activities will include scholarship on subjects that advance value and effectiveness of efforts for clients, primary data assessments and analyses, document preparation for inclusion in reports and communications. The successful candidate will be required to travel overnight at a minimum of 4 days per week.

In addition, your role will be to:

• Document field conditions via site assessments, ecological evaluations, habitat assessments, sampling, data collection and initial data analyses.
• Conduct field preparation through the review, documentation, and interpretation, of data libraries, imagery libraries, and other resources.
• Work on multiple efforts through specific task assignments.
• Participate in project reviews, and task meetings, and weekly organizational meeting calls.  
• Develop broad knowledge and skills in a specific practice area. A process of continual professional improvement through one’s own efforts while in synergy with training provided internally and externally.
• Evaluate, select, and apply standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to perform a task or sequence of tasks for projects, e.g., soil sampling, water sampling, and other.
• Work within cooperative teams to deliver on larger or more complex issues.
• Review and evaluate existing data, collects field data, performs scholarship of scientific literature, and consults with professionals in various fields to identify and/or evaluate environmental issues, problems, and new or revised regulations.
• Assists with preparation and research of required information
• Prepare portions of project documents
• Edit specifications
• Cooperatively working with a team on meeting clients’ needs

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to talk and hear.
• The associate is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and reach with hands and arms.
• The associate is frequently required to work outdoors for prolonged periods of time under a variety of weather conditions (up to 10 hours).
• Specific physical abilities required include walking on un-level grounds in varied topographies and sometimes challenging environments such as wetlands, lakes, rivers, forests, and desserts.
• The employee must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time (up to 8 hours).
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop.
• The associate must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications:

• Requires an accredited bachelors or master’s degree in environmental science, ecology, environmental planning, or related field required. Science and planning degrees will be preferred.
• Minimum one year professional work experience
• Capabilities with GIS preferred
• Requires functional knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access) required for use in completing assignments
• Foundation capabilities with ESRI Suite of projects for map production and data organization
• Good communication skills: speaking and writing, with in-house team, clients, and agencies
• Organizational membership or a professional certification track, as required. 
• Member of a professional practice organization(s) is desired

At Canacre, our benefits program is one of the ways in which we reinforce the value we place on employees and the role they play in helping us achieve our goals. Canacre offers comprehensive health and dental coverage, paid time off, and disability insurance. Other benefits include a 401(k) Savings Plan employer matching program, Employee Assistance Program, flexible work arrangement and a variety of wellness programs.

Given the volume of applications we typically receive, we are unable to respond to all applicants, however, you will be contacted if your experience is a suitable match with one of our upcoming projects.