Senior Underwater Acoustics, Bioacoustics Consultant

🕒 July 10

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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SLR Consulting

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

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

• Lead underwater acoustics modelling and assessment for multidisciplinary marine projects • Provide technical leadership in underwater acoustics assessments, modelling, monitoring, and advisory services • 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 • Model sound propagation using bathymetry, water depth, temperature, salinity, seabed composition, and oceanographic conditions • 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 • Support marine mammal, fish, sea turtle, and invertebrate acoustics studies • Identify species presence using passive acoustic monitoring, vocalizations, and acoustic signatures • Process, analyze, and interpret large underwater acoustic datasets using Python, MATLAB, R, or similar software • Generate spectrograms, frequency analyses, and time-series visualizations; detect and classify acoustic events • Prepare technical documentation for environmental assessments, permitting, 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, and client presentations • Build client relationships, identify business opportunities, and contribute to publications, conferences, workshops, and industry engagement • Work on projects involving ports, terminals, dredging, marine construction, offshore and renewable energy, subsea cables, transportation infrastructure, and coastal developments throughout North America and internationally

🎯 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, including behavioural disturbance, masking, stress responses, and habitat considerations • 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 suitable for environmental assessments, peer review, and regulatory submissions • Experience developing underwater noise mitigation strategies, including bubble curtains, exclusion zones, operational controls, adaptive management, and monitoring plans • Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including marine biologists, ecologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists • Excellent 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 • Master's degree preferred • Experience supporting marine mammal observation (MMO) or passive acoustic monitoring programs considered an asset • Offshore or coastal fieldwork experience considered an asset • Experience working with regulators, Indigenous communities, government agencies, and industry stakeholders highly desirable • Publication record, conference presentations, or research contributions related to underwater acoustics or marine ecology considered assets

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and wellness initiatives • Full-time permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement • Career growth and satisfaction • Professional growth and advancement opportunities