Launch Your Career Protecting Water Resources & Driving Sustainable Solutions

Step into a role where your analytical mindset, field skills, and passion for water science directly support environmental stewardship across Canada. As a Consulting Associate, Hydrologist based in Smithers or Vancouver, you will work alongside leading environmental professionals to help clients solve complex water resource and hydrology challenges.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your technical expertise, contribute to projects that influence responsible resource development and environmental protection, and grow your career within a global sustainability-focused organization. Your work will help shape informed decisions that protect watersheds, ecosystems, and communities for generations to come.

Why This Role Matters

Water is at the center of many of today’s most important environmental and resource management decisions, from mine development and infrastructure planning to ecosystem protection and watershed management.

In this role, you will play an important role in helping clients understand how water moves, changes, and interacts with natural and industrial systems.

By combining field investigations, data analysis, and technical reporting, you will contribute to projects that support regulatory approvals, environmental assessments, and long-term sustainability objectives. This role offers the opportunity to work on meaningful projects while developing your expertise alongside a multidisciplinary team of environmental specialists.

What Your Impact Is

In this role, you will help deliver high-quality hydrology and water resources solutions that support informed environmental decision-making. Your contributions will include:

Analyzing hydrologic and watershed datasets to support modeling and impact assessments.
Contributing technical content to reports, environmental assessments, and project documentation.
Conducting field investigations, including streamflow measurements, water sampling, hydrometric surveys, and instrumentation activities.
Collaborating with specialists across water resources, aquatic biology, toxicology, and earth sciences to address complex environmental challenges.
Supporting projects that balance environmental protection with responsible development.
Ensuring all work is completed in accordance with ERM’s quality, health, safety, and scientific standards.

What You'll Bring

Required

B.Sc. in Hydrology, Environmental Science, Water Resources Engineering, Geology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
0-1 years of hydrology, watershed analysis, or water resource-related experience.
Strong academic foundation in surface water hydrology and watershed processes.
Ability to work effectively as part of large, multidisciplinary project teams.
Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills.
Must be capable of hiking and working in remote environments while carrying equipment
Willingness to complete remote fieldwork in all weather conditions
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Preferred

M.Sc. in Hydrology, Environmental Science, Water Resources Experience with water and sediment sampling techniques, streamflow gauging, or hydrometric equipment.
Avalanche Skills Training (AST-1) or Swiftwater Rescue Technician (SRT-1) certifications are an asset
Experience working or recreating in remote areas
Experience working or recreating on rivers or streams
Ability to code or conduct statistical analyses using R or similar tools.
Experience with GIS or geological/watershed software (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, Geosoft Target, or 3D visualization tools).

Key Responsibilities

Perform project tasks, including:
- Hydrologic data analysis.
- Drafting sections of technical reports.
- Conducting water sampling, streamflow measurements, and field surveys.
- Completing data and literature reviews.
Travel to remote sites throughout the year, for up to 2 weeks at a time.
Approximately 30% of the work will be remote fieldwork.
Deliver work within defined scope, budget, and schedule while maintaining ERM’s quality standards.
Collaborate with technical teams in water resources, aquatic biology, and toxicology to support environmental impact assessment and monitoring programs.
Support fieldwork activities and contribute to the collection of high-quality environmental data.
Apply scientific and technical knowledge to address hydrology and water resource challenges across a variety of projects.
Maintain ERM’s commitment to health, safety, technical excellence, and client service.

For theConsulting Associate, Hydrologist position, theanticipatedannual base pay is$64,000–$81,800(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 arenot bonuseligible).

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.

Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms ofadditionalcompensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

Who We Are:

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainabilitychallengesand unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse,equitableand inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our companya great placeto build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients.Our diverse team of world-class expertssupportsclients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technicalexpertisein addressing their environmental, health, safety,riskand social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advanceobjectiveson the ground or at the executive level.

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ERM welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities.Reasonable accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

ERM is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age,Indigenous identity,or status as a protected veteran or qualified individual with a disability.

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About Us

At ERM, sustainability is our business.

We are the world’s 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 world’s 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 ERM’s 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 technical, business, and personal growth.

At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

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