JOB INFORMATION

Job Requisition ID: 74874
Ministry: Forestry and Parks
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: September 9, 2025
Pay Grade: Meteorologist 1
Salary: $2,896.94 to $3,741.60 biweekly ($75,610 to $97,655 /year)

APS COMPETENCIES

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

• Creative Problem Solving: to come up with solutions to solve complex problems while balancing the development,conservation, and use of resources for providing weather condition monitoring and forecasting services. Weather is constantly changing and there is continuous improvement required to ensure quality forecasts. Understanding unique conditions and seeking out new methodologies is critical to constantly improving forecasts.
• Drive for Results: to strive to exceed expectations and maximize resources to achieve results that are aligned with thegoals of the department while maintaining accountability to both internal and external stakeholders. This position is critical for life and safety of operational resources. Meeting timelines and delivering quality products are essential for Fire Weather Meteorologists.
• Build Collaborative Environments: to ensure a collaborative approach is taken within your work to facilitate opencommunication and leverage team skills to achieve desired outcomes. This position collaborates with internal stakeholders and many external stakeholders for more than just fire weather forecasts but consultation for other weather events.
• Agility: to identify alternative approaches or courses of action in unclear and complex situations. Supports others toidentify, assess, and use alternative approaches. The fire weather environment is constantly changing and is very stressful to forecast for. This position works as a part of a team for guidance and support.
• Systems Thinking: to consider the changing environment, recognizing our work impacts a wide range of stakeholder invarious ways.Systematic thinking process is required for this position for carring out quality weather forecasting products.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirement:
The minimum requirements for this role are a degree in Meteorology or a related field (mathematics or physics) with courses in meteorology/atmospheric sciences plus three (3) years of experience in operational weather analysis and forecasting with direct interaction with the user/client.

Assets:

• Extensive knowledge of complex atmospheric and physical science processes with experience providing diagnosis and prognostics of complex meteorological data under operational time constraints.
• Meteorological research, analysis and forecasting in application to fire behaviour.
• Supervisory or leadership experience.

Additional education may be considered in lieu of experience. Preference may be given to applicants with the following:

• Experience working with the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS).
• Completion of S-490 /Advanced Wildland Fire Behaviour or equivalent.
• Completion of ECCC (Environment and Climate Change Canada) MOIP (Meteorologist Operational Internship Program).

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to

Reporting to the Fire Weather Program Lead, the Fire Weather Meteorologist acquires, analyzes, diagnoses meteorological data, and predicts weather conditions to support the province’s wildfire management. This position produces timely professional fire weather forecasts, spot forecasts, and fire weather advisories/warnings for wildfire and prescribed burn operations at both provincial and national levels. The incumbent supports the development of fire weather and fire danger briefings to both internal and external fire management personnel, and contributes to the generation of fire danger parameters for wildfire suppression and pre-suppression.
The Fire Weather Meteorologist conducts fire weather research and operates the remote weather station network and lightning detection system while ensuring quality assurance and overseeing technical staff and contract meteorologists.

Responsibilities:

• Interpret and evaluate atmospheric computer models and remote sensing equipment (radar, satellite imagery and lightning detecting data).
• Prepare and deliver daily fire weather forecasts, fire danger interpretations and weather advisories under operational time constraints.
• Attend and participate in national and international symposia dealing with weather effects on fire danger and behaviour.
• Operate quality control software such as lightning detection system and remote automatic weather station networks, deploying new meteorological data streams for forecasting.

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