Posted 8 hours ago
Environmental Data Manager - Water Quality
@ EnviroCareers
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
EnviroCareers is hiring an Environmental Data Manager for a 100% Canadian environmental consulting firm to support water quality monitoring and modelling projects. The role turns lab and field results into reliable datasets, screens results against guidelines and permit limits, and automates recurring reports. Office-based in Vancouver, BC, with salary of $55k to $75k DOE plus health benefits, RRSP matching and annual performance bonuses.
Responsibilities:
- Compile and maintain water quality monitoring datasets
- Standardize parameters, units, dates and detection limits
- Run Excel, Python and R workflows and screen results against guidelines
- Prepare time-series plots, summaries and exceedance tables
- Help automate recurring processing and visualization tasks
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree or technical diploma in a relevant field
- One to three years of relevant experience
- Strong Excel skills and introductory Python or R
- Path toward P.Geo., P.Eng., P.Ag. or RPBio
- Attention to detail and strong documentation
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-13
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-13
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-13
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Data & analytics |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), College diploma (required) |
| Fields of study | environmental science, chemistry, biology, geochemistry, data science |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan, Performance bonus |
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EnviroCareers
| Field | Value |
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 6 |
You’ll deliver complete, consistent datasets that project teams can use for water quality analysis, modelling and reporting. You’ll catch missing records, inconsistent units and other data quality issues before they affect project work, and document corrections so others can trace results back to the source. You’ll clearly flag results that exceed applicable guidelines, permit limits or site-specific thresholds, and make recurring reports easier to update by documenting workflows and helping automate routine steps.
As you build experience, you’ll be encouraged to take on more responsibility and explore work that aligns with your interests and strengths. Depending on your expertise and project needs, that could mean moving into data analysis or modelling, taking on broader responsibility for internal databases and data quality, or developing a technical specialization in water quality science or geochemistry.
Office-based in Vancouver, BC
Salary: $55k - $75k DOE, plus health benefits, RRSP matching, annual performance bonuses (The final salary will reflect the qualifications, relevant experience, expertise, and professional designations that each candidate brings to the role. Individuals who offer additional strengths or bring exceptional value to the team will be considered for compensation beyond the stated range, as our client recognizes and rewards unique contributions.)
Responsibilities:
- Environmental data management: Compile and maintain surface water, groundwater, and geochemical monitoring datasets; import laboratory EDDs, field measurements, and metadata into project databases.
- Data consistency and traceability: Standardize station names, parameters, units, detection limits, qualifiers, and dates, and document data sources, processing steps, corrections, and revisions.
- Database support: Assist with EQWin, Excel-based systems, and project-specific databases, and retrieve datasets for technical and project teams; conduct database quality control.
- Analysis and screening: Run and maintain Excel, Python, and R workflows; screen water quality results against BC and Canadian guidelines, site-specific objectives, permit limits, and trigger concentrations.
- Reporting and automation: Prepare time-series plots, summary statistics, exceedance tables, transformations, and standardized outputs, and help automate recurring processing and visualization tasks.
- Potential field and/or laboratory support: Depending on interest, experience, and project needs, participate in environmental field programs and/or support in-house laboratory activities.
- Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in environmental science, chemistry, biology, geochemistry, data science, statistics, engineering or a related field, plus approximately one to three years of relevant experience.
- You should be on a path toward a relevant professional designation, such as P.Geo., P.Eng., P.Ag. or RPBio.
- Strong Excel skills, including formulas, PivotTables and data validation, with the ability to work with large datasets. Introductory to intermediate Python and/or R skills and a foundation in statistics and data visualization.
- Attention to detail, strong documentation and problem-solving skills, and the ability to follow procedures, collaborate across disciplines and spot ways to improve data quality or efficiency.
- Experience with water quality data, laboratory EDDs, environmental models or QA/QC checks such as blanks, duplicates, reference materials and ion balance is an asset. Familiarity with BC, CCME or federal water quality guidelines is also an asset.
- Familiarity with EQWin, EQuIS, SQL, Git, Power Query, Power BI, GIS or reproducible workflows is an asset, as is experience with tools such as pandas or tidyverse. A pathway to a relevant BC professional designation is an asset.
- Must be living within driving distance of Vancouver as it is an in office role with an option of hybrid potentially in the future.
To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume describing your experience in confidence via our careers site to see all open positions and apply visit our website:
www.EnviroCareers.ca
or
via email: [email protected]. Please indicate “Data Manager” in your subject line.
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