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Shape Canadas Fisheries Outcomes on Complex, HighImpact ProjectsAs a trusted technical authority within ERMs Fisheries and Aquatics team, youll influence project outcomes that mattersupporting responsible development, advancing regulatory approvals, and helping clients address evolving environmental and sustainability challenges. Youll collaborate with an exceptional, multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers in Canada and across ERMs global network, while mentoring the next generation of fisheries professionals.Why This Role MattersCanadas mining and energy sectors are facing increasing regulatory scrutiny, societal expectations, and environmental complexity. In this role, you serve as a senior fisheries advisorsetting technical direction, ensuring scientific rigor, and helping clients design and implement solutions that protect aquatic ecosystems while enabling project progress. Your expertise will directly influence environmental assessments, offsetting strategies, and longterm aquatic management outcomes nationwide.What Your Impact Is* Lead and shape fisheries and aquatic programs that support major capital projects from planning through operations* Provide senior technical oversight that ensures defensible, highquality deliverables aligned with federal, provincial, and territorial requirements* Act as a trusted advisor to clients, regulators, and internal teams on fisheries biology, habitat management, and offsetting strategies* Mentor and develop junior and intermediate staff, strengthening ERMs fisheries capability for the future* Contribute to ERMs national and international fisheries and aquatics technical communitiesWhat Youll BringRequired* B.Sc. in Fisheries Biology, Natural Resource Management, or a related discipline.* Registered Professional Biologist (or equivalent)* 6+ years of environmental consulting experience* Demonstrated experience mentoring and managing junior staff* Extensive field experience in fish and fish habitat assessment and aquatic biology* Strong knowledge of federal, provincial, and territorial regulations and guidelines as they apply to the mining and oil & gas sectors* Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, schedules, and quality of technical deliverables* Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision in dynamic, fastpaced environments* Strong commitment to health and safety, including adherence to established H&S procedures* Excellent written and verbal communication skills* Willingness to travel and conduct fieldwork in remote locations* Driver''s License Required: This position requires a valid driver''s license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.Preferred* M.Sc. in Fisheries Biology, Natural Resource Management, or a related discipline.* 10+ years of environmental consulting experience* Experience designing and overseeing fisheries field programs in remote locations, including complex logistics and multiteam coordination* Experience supporting mining and/or oil & gas projects* Experience working with Indigenous communities, government agencies, and public stakeholders* Experience delivering fisheries projects within multidisciplinary teams, including environmental assessments, offsetting plans, instream flow assessments, and monitoring programsKey Responsibilities* Oversee the design and implementation of fish and fish habitat field programs in freshwater ecosystems across Canada* Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of fisheries offsetting and compensation programs* Draft, review, and provide technical oversight for highquality environmental assessments, baseline studies, offsetting plans, and permitting documents* Provide senior technical review and quality control for fisheries data collection, analysis, and management* Compile, manage, analyze, and contribute to databases related to fish habitat, community, and biological data* Provide expert guidance and technical advice to clients and internal project teams* Deliver field leadership and technical support for complex fisheries projects* Contribute to proposal development, including technical scopes and cost estimates, in alignment with ERM policies and processes* Manage project phases as required, including task delegation, subcontractor oversight, health and safety management, and client engagement* Actively participate in ERMs national and international fisheries and aquatic technical networks**ERM** is seeking a **Principal Technical Consultant, Fisheries Biologist** to provide senior technical leadership on some of Canadas most complex mining and energy projects. Based in one of ERMs western Canadian offices (**Vancouver, Calgary, Whitehorse, or Smithers**), this role blends deep technical expertise with strategic oversightguiding fisheries assessments, offsetting programs, and permitting for largescale capital projects across diverse and often remote environments.For the **Principal Technical Consultant, Fisheries Biologist** position, the anticipated annual base pay is **$117,540$174,235 (CAD)**. Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible). We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees. : Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.At ERM, sustainability is our business.We are the worlds largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance.ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities.Our diverse global team of experts works with the worlds leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor.Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it).Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERMs purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a boots to boardroom leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world.We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to #J-18808-Ljbffr