Environmental Data Analyst in Burnaby

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We have an immediate opportunity for a Junior Environmental Data Analyst to join our Environmental Data Management team. In this entry-level role, you will support multiple environmental projects for sites across North America by organizing, validating, loading, and reporting laboratory, field, spatial, and geological data. You will work with experienced data analysts, project managers, technical specialists, field teams, and laboratories to help maintain complete, accurate, and traceable project databases. This is a hybrid position with an expectation of being in the office ~2-3 days per week.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support several environmental projects at the same time for sites located across North America, while following project-specific requirements, priorities, schedules, and budgets.
• Receive, organize, review, and manage environmental data from multiple sources, including laboratory-specific electronic data deliverables (EDDs), field-collected data, spatial data, borehole and geological information, and historical records.
• Perform routine data quality checks to identify missing information, formatting issues, duplicate records, invalid values, unit inconsistencies, and other data anomalies.
• Load, maintain, query, and extract data using EarthSoft EQuIS, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft SQL Server under established procedures and senior guidance.
• Apply an understanding of relational database concepts, including tables, keys, joins, and one-to-many relationships, when reviewing, querying, and troubleshooting data.
• Use knowledge of chemistry, analytical methods, detection limits, units, qualifiers, and laboratory reporting practices to support accurate interpretation and management of environmental analytical data.
• Prepare routine data summaries, reports, tables, exports, and project deliverables using standard tools, templates, and queries.
• Communicate with project managers, laboratories, field teams, and other technical staff to obtain required files, resolve data questions, and confirm project requirements.
• Maintain clear documentation of data receipt, processing, validation, corrections, and delivery to support data traceability and quality assurance.
• Follow established data management standards, naming conventions, quality procedures, and file-management practices.
• Manage assigned tasks, track progress, raise questions promptly, and communicate potential schedule or data-quality concerns to the project team.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Foundational knowledge of environmental data management and a strong interest in developing technical database skills.
• Experience with or exposure to EarthSoft EQuIS, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft SQL Server; equivalent database experience will also be considered.
• Understanding of relational database concepts, including tables, primary and foreign keys, data types, joins, and relationships between datasets.
• Good background knowledge of general and environmental chemistry, common laboratory analyses, analytical terminology, units, detection limits, and data qualifiers.
• Experience working with spreadsheets, structured datasets, laboratory EDDs, or field data is an asset.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy, consistency, completeness, and traceability.
• Logical problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate data issues methodically.
• Ability to organize work across multiple projects, manage competing priorities, and meet established deadlines with guidance.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the confidence to ask questions when requirements or data are unclear.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative, geographically distributed team.
• Ability to meet project deadlines and understand how assigned tasks relate to project goals.
• Ability to maintain and establish effective working relationships.
• Willingness to learn new software, project requirements, regulatory frameworks, and data management procedures.
• Familiarity with federal, provincial, state, or municipal environmental guidelines is an asset.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, college diploma, or equivalent training in chemistry, environmental science, environmental studies, geology, geography, or related discipline.
• Up to two years of relevant experience in environmental data management, analytical chemistry, laboratory data, database support, or a related field; relevant co-op, internship, academic, or project experience is welcome.
• Coursework or practical experience involving databases, data quality, chemistry, laboratory analyses, or environmental sampling is an asset.