Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist

Location: Guelph, Mississauga, or London, Ontario, Canada; regular travel throughout Ontario required

Salary: CAD 110,000–160,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, and geographic location

Company

hirify.global is a global environmental solutions company delivering science-, data-, and engineering-based solutions for environmental pressures, regulatory expectations, and operational risks.

What you will do

• Manage and execute fluvial geomorphology, applied water resources, river restoration, and natural channel design projects.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and provide technical direction across planning, design, permitting, construction support, implementation, and monitoring.
• Conduct geomorphic and hydraulic assessments of channel stability, erosion, sediment transport, scour potential, river response, and infrastructure risks.
• Lead field investigations, data collection, spatial analysis, and interpretation of digital terrain models, aerial imagery, LiDAR, and GIS datasets.
• Prepare technical reports, regulatory submissions, work plans, studies, recommendations, and project deliverables while providing senior technical review and quality assurance.
• Develop client relationships, support proposals and business development, collaborate with stakeholders and regulatory agencies, and mentor junior and intermediate staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, earth science, physical geography, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in fluvial geomorphology, river engineering, water resources engineering, or a related field, including leadership of complex studies and multidisciplinary teams.
• Registered or eligible for registration as a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) or Professional Engineer (P.Eng.).
• Experience with channel stability assessments, sediment transport analyses, erosion evaluations, river restoration, natural channel design, regulatory requirements, and environmental permitting.
• Experience with ArcGIS Pro, spatial datasets, and hydraulic, hydrologic, sediment transport, or related water resources models.
• Ability to travel regularly to project sites throughout Ontario and hold an unrestricted Class G driver’s licence.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, field professionals, consultants, and other specialists.
• Collaborate with clients, regulatory agencies, Indigenous communities, and project partners.
• Contribute to climate-resilient watercourse management, ecosystem protection, erosion mitigation, and nature-based solutions.
• Recruitment-process accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
• Direct applicants are considered; third-party agency applications are not accepted.