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Senor Environmental Remediation Design Engineer

Ghd

The Role

Overview

Senior engineer leading design and implementation of environmental remediation projects.

Key Responsibilities

  • project management
  • engineering design
  • feasibility studies
  • technical reporting
  • waste management
  • standards specification

Tasks

-Work within multi-disciplinary project teams, providing environmental advice to other GHD teams. -Remain current on standard methodologies for innovative remediation approaches. -Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues. -Manage design projects including project teams, budgets, timelines, and deliverables. -Professional Supervision: Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision to ensure that there is effective professional supervision that supports practitioners' professional development and embeds reflective practice. -Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues. -Needs Assessment: Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues. -Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues, or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers. -Support of strategic pursuits, focused on federal sector and private industrial clients. -Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure. -Knowledge Management: Develop policies and processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice. -Manage the development and review of technical environmental reports, drawings, and specifications. -Waste Management: Manage specific segments of waste management, involving waste reduction programs, waste segregation, compliance, storage, transport, and disposal. -Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units, such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons. -Provide senior leadership and mentorship with respect to the completion of environmental remediation projects. -Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers, contractors, and consultants. -Engineering Solutions Design: Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief (for example, in terms of functionality, performance, aesthetics, and cost) that conforms to organizational and/or regulatory standards. -Support and mentor junior team members in a learning and collaborative atmosphere. -Health, Safety, and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health, safety, and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organization's HSE policies, procedures, and mandatory instructions. -Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the website/portal/application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users’ needs.

Requirements

  • p.eng.
  • civil eng.
  • env eng.
  • 10+ years
  • client advocacy
  • regulatory

What You Bring

-General Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years) -Experience and desire to provide high profile clients with responsive and innovative solutions. -Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and report writing skills. -Possession of P.Eng. designation to be used to stamp/certify designs. P.E. designation considered an asset. -Experience in the technical delivery of investigations, designs including drawings and specifications and construction support for environmental remediation projects in Canada and the US -Experience with developing and implementing strategies for complex remediation and/or risk management. -Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years) -A Bachelor's in Civil or Environmental Engineering required -Master's Degree or Equivalent Level an asset -Proven experience in client advocacy while developing trusted relationships with regulators. -15+ years-experience -Strong commitment to client service excellence -Understanding of US environmental legislation considered an asset. -Experience working on Canadian and/or US Federal projects is considered an asset. -Strong understanding of Canadian (including Ontario) environmental legislation -Accredited Professional Engineer in Canada or the US

Benefits

-Opportunity to work on local, national, and global projects, which may at times entail supporting other GHD office locations requiring some travel.

The Company

About Ghd

-With a focus on innovation, it integrates expertise across various sectors to deliver world-class solutions. -The organization is known for tackling large and complex projects, such as designing bridges and tunnels and constructing energy-efficient buildings. -Notable projects include infrastructure development for major cities and energy-efficient solutions for industrial facilities. -The organization continues to expand its digital and technological capabilities to ensure solutions are cutting-edge and sustainable.

Sector Specialisms

Water

Energy

Resources

Environment

Property and Buildings

Transportation

Hydrology and Hydrodynamics

Digital Technologies

Engineering

Architecture

Environmental Services

Construction Services

Geological Engineering

Energy Management

Water Management

Dams

Mining Solutions

Asset Management

Hydrogen Projects

Water Operations

Sustainability

Automation

Disaster Response