Environmental Engineer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 49475)

Description

The City of Edmonton is a modern municipal corporation, serving nearly one million people and looking to attract and inspire one million more. With more than 300 programs and services, our work connects us to almost every aspect of Edmontonians' daily lives. And working together, we're building a thriving, sustainable and welcoming home for Edmontonians of today and tomorrow.

The City of Edmonton's Climate Strategy & Planning Unit is looking for an Environmental Engineer who is passionate about adapting our city to the impacts of climate change and leadership in climate solutions. The successful individual will manage and support projects, initiatives and programs that directly support goals and actions contained in the City's Climate Adaptation Strategy. The successful individual will help in developing the City's climate resilience standards, regulations and performance criteria and assist with internal and external stakeholder engagement. The individual will also undertake and synthesize research to support project teams in understanding changing climate risks and related adaptation needs. The Environmental Engineer position is significant as the individual will be a Subject Matter Expert who provides technical advice for adapting to climate change impacts.

With a focus on the City of Edmonton's Cultural Commitments to Safe, Helpful, Accountable, Integrated and Excellent, you will focus on:

• Support the development and implementation of strategies and projects aimed at achieving goals and objectives contained in the City's Climate Adaptation Strategy
• Provide technical expertise on corporate energy transition, environmental and resiliency projects
• Develop and evaluate Requests for Proposals (RFP) from consultants and manage consulting projects
• Participate in and evaluate engineering and technical studies and makes recommendations based on professional judgement (e.g., Climate change vulnerability and risk assessment, climate resilient design criteria)
• Contribute to preparing engineering specifications, standards and policies related to climate adaptation
• Draft and authenticate technical engineering documents and reports as per APEGA guidance
• Provide engineering quality assurance technical review and recommendations
• Provide professional expertise, interpretation and feedback for technically complex or sensitive issues involving multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific data
• Research and understand emerging issues, environmental standards, processes, technologies and trends in climate change adaptation, energy transition, and environment that may impact the City and community and will impact the scope of projects/programs/initiatives
• Analysis of climate and environmental initiatives and programs in other municipalities and organizations to identify 'best practices' that could be applicable to Edmonton
• Serve as a technical resource on resiliency and climate change adaptation to support City policy positions to other areas of the Corporation, internal committees, working teams and City Council
• Prepare technical memos, policy briefs, presentations, and feedback on climate reports
• Monitor, measure and report corporate and community environmental and resiliency performance 
• Perform other duties as assigned