Consultant, Environmental Equipment Coordinator
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Responsibilities
- Liaise with project managers and technical teams to understand equipment needs and proactively plan deployments.
- Coordinate purchasing, shipping/receiving, and cost‑effective movement of environmental field equipment across Canada.
- Ensure equipment reliability by maintaining, repairing, calibrating and tracking usage, including loss/damage.
- Monitor utilization and manage cost recovery, including timely invoice generation, and identifying opportunities to suspend or sell underused items.
- Lead equipment inventories in Vancouver and coordinate with other Canadian offices to maintain consistent inventories and tracking.
- Optimize equipment processes, identifying gaps and developing improved systems for management, tracking and reporting.
- Provide equipment revenue data and forecasting insights to support operational planning and decision-making.
- Support equipment revenue recognition, invoicing, and financial reporting; help establish and refine equipment rental rates and cost-recovery models and analyze equipment revenue and cost trends to inform forecasting and business decisions.
- Manage insurance coverage for equipment and support project teams with obtaining ins
Requirements
- Required
- 2+ years of experience in equipment coordination or logistics - ideally supporting environmental fieldwork or field-based technical teams.
- Hands-on knowledge of environmental survey and sampling equipment (e.g., water quality meters, electrofishers, hydrometric tools, GPS units, communication devices).
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Strong multitasking and problem‑solving abilities in a fast‑paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills - verbal, written and interpersonal.
- Proficiency with MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Advanced Excel skills are essential for this role - you'll manage equipment and inventory data in large tables daily, using pivot tables, formulas and lookups, and building and maintaining trackers and basic reports.
- Quick learner who can adapt to new software systems with ease.
- Financial literacy - confident reading, interpreting, and working with financial data, with the ability to support equipment revenue recognition, rental rate and cost-recovery models, invoicing, financial reporting, forecasting, revenue and cost trend analysis.
- Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.
- This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
- Preferred
- Technical diploma or certificate in environmental sciences or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with transport regulations; TDG (Ground/Air) certifications are an asset.
- First Aid and WHMIS training.
- Experience being a part of health and safety committees.
Benefits
Additional Information
If you're an experienced environmental equipment expert who thrives on organization, problem‑solving, and meaningful environmental work, this role puts you at the heart of it all. Step into a high-impact role as a Consultant, Environmental Equipment Coordinator based in Vancouver, BC , where your expertise will directly enable critical environmental and sustainability projects across Canada. At ERM, your work goes beyond coordination-you'll play a strategic role in ensuring field teams are equipped, projects stay on track, and our clients receive the highest standard of environmental solutions. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of operations, data, and environmental impact within a global sustainability leader. Why This Role Matters At ERM, we partner with major clients to tackle some of the world's most complex environmental and sustainability challenges. Delivering on that mission requires more than expertise-it depends on having the right equipment, in the right place, at the right time. As our Consultant, Environmental Equipment Coordinator, you'll be the operational backbone of our field services. Your ability to manage, track, and optimize equipment ensures our teams can deliver high-quality, efficient, and safe work. From supporting multimillion-dollar projects to enabling field teams across Canada, your role is essential to keeping our operations running seamlessly. What Your Impact Is In this role, you'll act as the central hub for all environmental field equipment operations. You'll oversee the full lifecycle-from procurement and logistics to maintenance, tracking, and financial reporting. Your work will directly support environmental assessments, permitting, EHS compliance, remediation, and major energy and mining projects. By ensuring equipment readiness and optimizing processes, you'll help field teams operate efficiently, reduce downtime, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.
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