Engineering Co-op Student (Designated)
Competition # : 45211
Department: Environment and Climate Change
Location: BEDFORD
Type of Employment: Co-op
Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG
Closing Date: 28-Feb-25 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
Designation Status
This opportunity is designated to applicants that identify as an Indigenous Person, African/Black Nova Scotian and other Racialized Persons, Person with a Disability, Women in Occupations or Positions where they are Under-represented.
See the Nova Scotia Government's Employment Equity Policy for more information, including additional details on the designated groups.
About Us
The Department of Environment and Climate Change is now accepting applications for an Engineering Co-op student for a period of 16 weeks starting in May 2025. Candidates must provide proof of status as a full-time post-secondary co-op student and be scheduled to return to school in the next academic semester required for their program (Either September 2025 or January 2026) to be eligible for this position.
About Our Opportunity
Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change's role is to protect the environment, human health and animal health through regulatory excellence, conservation, partnership and promotion. To achieve this, we strive to develop legislation, regulations and policies, process notifications, applications, and approvals for regulated activities based on sound scientific knowledge and expertise.
Our goal is to educate, inspect, and enforce to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations. We also proactively respond to environmental, conservation, animal, and human health risks and work to develop programs and deliver services to enhance protection in these areas.
Primary Accountabilities
The Engineering Co-op Student will:
- Learn from a dynamic group of skilled professionals how environmental mitigation and protection are managed in a field setting;
- Assist Regional Engineers with review of industrial files, on-site sewage disposal system design, municipal water and wastewater treatment files, watercourse alteration files, environmental assessment registrations, contaminated site file, etc.
- Execute assigned tasks as required by your supervisor,
- Support other engineering initiatives within the team of Regional Engineers and across the Department as required.
Qualifications and Experience
As the ideal candidate, you must be registered in a co-op program and be a returning student in the next applicable semester of an environmental, civil, or chemical engineering program. You must also identify as a member of one of the Equity Groups that this position is designated for.
To be the successful candidate, you must:
- Clearly indicate course work or experience related to water, wastewater, GIS, water resource management, hydrology, hydrogeology, climate change and/or database/data management in your resume
- Have excellent communication and organization skills
- Have experience in data analysis, problem solving and statistics
- Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills as well as excellent organizational skills
- Must have the ability to determine priorities with minimal supervision and demonstrate the use of sound judgement and tact in dealing with a variety of people
- Must be task oriented and self-motivated with good time management skills.
- Must be proficient with 10 Microsoft Office products (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Having a valid Driver's License and experience using ArcGIS (e.g., ArcMap) would be considered an asset
An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer.
Additional Information
Please ensure you demonstrate in your application how you meet the above qualifications. In your cover letter, identify the competition number, position and department.
Please Note: This is a student position with an end date of August 25, 2025 or December 2025 depending on enrollment in next semester.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Pay Grade: HOURLY
Salary Range: $18.22 - $29.69 Hourly
Employment Equity Statement:
Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.
This is a bargaining unit position initially restricted to current civil service employees represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU). If applying from outside a government office, employees must apply correctly via this link:
Failure to apply correctly means that your application will not be given first consideration as a bargaining unit applicant, and will only be included if external applications are pursued.
External applicants and current casual employees will only be considered if there are no qualified civil service bargaining unit candidates. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.
Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to Competitions@novascotia.ca.
