Senior Underwater Acoustics, Bioacoustics Consultant

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

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Healthcare • Manufacturing • Logistics

SLR Consulting is a global environmental consultancy that specializes in sustainability solutions across various sectors. With a mission of 'Making Sustainability Happen', the company offers expert advisory services to tackle complex sustainability challenges while delivering value through strategic performance, sustainability reporting, and project delivery support. SLR Consulting focuses on sectors including built environments, consumer goods, and energy, among others, providing innovative solutions for climate resilience, waste management, and responsible sourcing.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership in underwater acoustics assessments, modelling, monitoring, and advisory services for marine projects • Develop and run underwater sound propagation and exposure models for continuous and impulsive sound sources • Define modelling assumptions, environmental inputs, sensitivity analyses, uncertainty assessments, and quality assurance procedures • Predict underwater noise footprints and evaluate behavioural disturbance, auditory injury, masking, stress responses, and cumulative impacts to marine fauna • Design, coordinate, and execute underwater acoustic monitoring programs • Deploy, retrieve, calibrate, and maintain hydrophones and underwater acoustic recording systems • Measure ambient and anthropogenic underwater noise from shipping, construction, dredging, seismic surveys, and offshore operations • Coordinate offshore and coastal monitoring programs with multidisciplinary project teams and participate in fieldwork as required • Support marine animal acoustics studies, passive acoustic monitoring, marine mammal observation, and controlled exposure experiments • Process, analyze, and interpret large underwater acoustic datasets using Python, MATLAB, or similar software • Generate spectrograms, frequency analyses, and time-series visualizations; detect, classify, and catalogue acoustic events • Prepare technical documentation for environmental assessments, permitting applications, regulatory submissions, and compliance reporting • Develop and evaluate underwater noise mitigation strategies, including bubble curtains, exclusion zones, timing windows, ramp-up procedures, operational restrictions, quieter technologies, and adaptive management • Prepare technical reports, figures, modelling documentation, and appendices • Coordinate with project managers on scope, schedules, budgets, technical resources, and deliverables • Perform QA/QC reviews and streamline modelling, data processing, and reporting workflows • Mentor junior staff and support proposals, scope development, budgeting, client presentations, and business development • Build client relationships and contribute thought leadership through publications, conferences, workshops, and industry engagement

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of five years of consulting experience in underwater acoustics supporting environmental assessments, permitting, compliance, or marine infrastructure projects • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Acoustics, Ocean Engineering, Marine Science, or a related discipline • Professional registration (P.Eng., PE, or equivalent), or eligibility for registration • Strong understanding of underwater sound propagation, acoustics theory, source characterization, frequency-domain analysis, exposure assessment, and environmental acoustics • Experience developing underwater sound propagation models and documenting assumptions, sensitivity analyses, uncertainty assessments, and reproducible modelling workflows • Experience designing and implementing underwater acoustic monitoring programs, including hydrophone deployment, calibration, instrumentation, and field data collection • Experience processing large underwater acoustic datasets using Python, MATLAB, R, or similar software • Experience generating spectrograms, time-series analyses, signal processing, automated detection, acoustic classification, and statistical analyses • Experience applying passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) techniques and marine mammal acoustic detection systems • Understanding of marine fauna behaviour and responses to underwater sound • Familiarity with marine mammal, fish, and sea turtle impact criteria and environmental assessment frameworks • Experience integrating species distribution, hearing sensitivity, and biological datasets into acoustic assessments • Experience preparing technical reports for environmental assessments, peer review, and regulatory submissions • Experience developing underwater noise mitigation strategies • Experience working with multidisciplinary teams • Experience working with regulators, Indigenous communities, government agencies, and industry stakeholders is highly desirable • Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and project management abilities • Demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership experience • Proven client relationship and business development experience, including proposal preparation and scope development • Must be legally authorized to work in the country of hire • Ability to travel throughout North America, including offshore work and cross-border travel where required

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and wellness initiatives • Full-time permanent role • Opportunities for professional growth and advancement • Career growth and subject-matter expertise development

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