Coordinator, Environment - Surface Water

The Opportunity:

Canadian Natural has an exciting opportunity for a highly detail oriented and organized environmental professional to provide stewardship and regulatory guidance on surface water regulatory obligations. In this role, you will implement the Surface Water Management Plan for the Albian Oil Sands site by supporting operations and providing regulatory direction for activities such as river water intake restrictions and discharge limits.

You will use your strong communication skills to support and advise mine operations dewatering and mine projects construction on operational controls to maintain regulatory requirements. Initiative and flexibility are required as this role consists of approximately 50% office and 50% fieldwork.

Key Accountabilities:

• Collect surface water samples in a safe and cost efficient manner and ensure they are stored, analyzed and reported to maintain regulatory compliance
• Maintain accurate records ensuring they are collected, checked, stored and reported internally or externally to stakeholders and regulators including regular weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual water quantity and quality related reports
• Organize sample logistics including bottle preparation and calibration of field equipment, and chain of custody preparation
• Supervise students assisting with field work
• Interpret data and conduct weekly QA/QC of water sampling data and maintain EQuIS database for surface water field and analytical data through a sound understanding of statistics
• Provide support and backup for environment team members (groundwater, inspections, wildlife, reclamation field work) and participate in the 24-hr Environment On-Call and Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) to support incidents

Other Details:

• Competitive salary, stock options, stock savings plan and benefits
• Eligible for relocation pursuant to Canadian Natural’s Relocation Regular Policy
• Job location: Fort McMurray, Alberta – Albian Oil Sands site
• Company sponsored fly-in/fly-out and camp facilities with flights from Calgary or Edmonton
• Shift schedule: 4 days on, 3 days off, 10-hour days - Monday to Thursday
• This is a safety sensitive position

Skills & Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of EQuIS is considered an asset
• Typically 4+ years of experience with a degree in Environmental Science, Earth Sciences, Biology, Chemistry or Hydrology, or a related technical diploma with extensive work experience, preferably in oil sands
• Strong Excel skills in relation to statistics and analytics
• Valid Class 5 driver’s license with clean drivers abstract and previous ATV and/or watercraft experience considered an asset

Why Canadian Natural?

CANADIAN NATURAL is a senior independent crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our strong, diversified asset base is comprised of a balanced portfolio of light, synthetic, and heavy crude oil and natural gas.Canadian Natural operates in Canada, the United Kingdom and Offshore Africa.

At Canadian Natural, we strive to live through our mission statement: "To develop people to work together to create value for the Company's shareholders by doing it right with fun and integrity." We are committed to a long-term presence in the communities where we operate. Our activities create value by providing employment, business development opportunities, revenues to governments that contribute to spending on goods and services, and essential resources for public services, including health, safety, education and training.

Over the last 30 years, we have grown from a Company with nine employees to over 10,000 employees.We have increased our production from approximately 400 BOE/d in 1989 to more than one million BOE/d today.

Safety is a core value at Canadian Natural.We conduct all of our operations in a way that identifies, minimizes and mitigates harm to the health and safety of employees, contractors, the public and the environment.

Canadian Natural Resources Limited - CNRL - is a publicly traded company on the TSX and NYSE as CNQ

Application deadline is May 19, 2023.Apply now!

Primary Location

Fort McMurray

Job

Environmental Compliance