Environmental Project Engineer Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 52355)

Description

Are you passionate about tackling climate change and building a more sustainable city? Do you thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy turning innovative ideas into tangible results? If so, the City of Edmonton invites you to bring your expertise and enthusiasm to our team as an Environmental Project Engineer. 

As the Environmental Project Engineer, you will collaborate with dedicated project teams to develop comprehensive plans and strategies that actively reduce our carbon footprint and implement impactful energy transition actions. You will be diving into research, analyzing data, and transforming complex information into clear insights that empower your colleagues to understand greenhouse gas emissions and the positive impacts of their work. Your technical acumen will be crucial in providing expert advice on how to effectively mitigate climate change impacts across a variety of projects.

What will you do?:

• Support the development and implementation of strategies aimed at achieving the goals and objectives contained in the City's Community Energy Transition Strategy and C627 Climate Resilience Policy
• Develop technical engineering work products, which may include, but are not limited to: 
  • Technical assessments on the greenhouse gas impacts of various projects, including relevant emissions factors, and associated recommendations for mitigation
  • Engineering specifications, standards, and procedures related to greenhouse gas quantification and assessment 
• Participate in and evaluate engineering and technical studies and make recommendations based on professional judgement (e.g., greenhouse gas impacts of various projects);
• Provide professional input in the development of annual corporate and community greenhouse gas inventories, carbon budgets, and associated greenhouse gas forecasting
• Develop and evaluate corporate and community climate change mitigation targets and actions
• Contribute to preparing engineering specifications, standards, procedures and policies related to greenhouse gas quantification and energy transition 
• Provide engineering quality assurance technical review and recommendations for work that is completed by others
• Provide professional input, interpretation and feedback for technically complex or sensitive issues involving multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific data
• Support the evaluation and/or development of tools for analysis and monitoring of sustainability and long term corporate and community energy transition metrics
• Support leadership, management and implementation of climate change programs, projects and initiative
• Serve as a technical resource on climate change mitigation / energy transition to support City policy positions to other areas of the Corporation, internal committees, project / working teams and City Council as required, as well as to community partners, companies, organizations, associations, regional municipalities and other orders of government