SLR Consulting
Underwater Acoustics Senior Consultant,
Vancouver - Great Northern Way, CA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- As our new Underwater Acoustic Senior Consultant, you will play an important role on our Acoustics team.
- You will work across projects involving ports and terminals, offshore energy, dredging, marine construction, subsea cables, transportation infrastructure, and other coastal developments throughout North America and internationally.
- We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.
Responsibilities
- Technical support for environmental assessments, permitting, regulatory approvals, compliance programs, stakeholder engagement, and expert technical advice.
- Develop and run underwater sound propagation and exposure models for both continuous and impulsive sound sources.
- Support source characterization using field measurements, literature values, equipment specifications, and operational data.
- Design, coordinate, and execute underwater acoustic monitoring programs.
- Deploy, retrieve, calibrate, and maintain hydrophones and underwater acoustic recording systems.
- Support underwater acoustic measurement campaigns and ensure data quality throughout collection and processing.
- Support studies evaluating marine mammal, fish, sea turtle, and invertebrate responses to underwater sound.
- Support marine mammal observation (MMO) and passive acoustic monitoring programs where appropriate.
Requirements
- Participate in fieldwork as required depending on project needs.
- Assist with controlled exposure experiments and research initiatives where required.
Nice to have
- Minimum 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.
- Master's degree preferred.
- 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 designing and implementing underwater acoustic monitoring programs including hydrophone deployment, calibration, instrumentation, and field data collection.
- Strong analytical skills with 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.
Compensation
- Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and wellness initiatives.
Company info
- Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and wellness initiatives.
- Full-time permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country of hire.
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