Senior Mine Water Technical Lead

Overview

Lead mine water management projects, strategy, and technical solutions for GHD.

Key Responsibilities

• quality assurance
• project management
• modelling
• surface water
• technical reporting
• client management

Tasks

-Review and provide quality assurance on reports and technical documentation -Directing projects including technical work delivery, budget, schedule, and communications for both large, and small multi-disciplinary projects -Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues. -Serving as Technical Lead, Project Director, and/or Project Manager on key mining and water projects -Guide modelling and other technical analyses -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. -Product and Solution Development: Analyze and evaluate the feasibility and relevance of proposed complex products and services and develop and amend, as necessary, with guidance from senior colleagues. May also be responsible for supervising activities performed by a product development or specialist team. -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. -Developing technical engineered solutions for surface water projects including water balance, water quality, erosion and scour protection, river engineering, stormwater management, and flood mitigation -Ensuring delivery quality and client satisfaction -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. -Guide the preparation of options assessments, business cases and investment planning. -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. -Guide the development of project methodologies including technical innovations and best practices -Manage the preparation of technical reports and studies -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. -Designing surface water management infrastructure from concept level to construction documentation including detailed design, tender documentation, and conducting field reviews -Collaborate with and facilitate technical inputs from people across the GHD business -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

• civil engineer
• p.eng ontario
• 15+ years
• leadership
• strategic planning
• communication

What You Bring

-Strong planning and strategy development skills -Proven experience leading and managing teams -General Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence -Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes -Excellent written and verbal communication skills -Bachelor Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering, Master’s degree or PhD would be considered an asset -Minimum 15+ years’ experience working in the civil / public works arena with municipal, provincial, and Federal clients -Comfortable presenting in front of Executive and Technical audiences -Excellent analytical skills, and the ability to take a holistic view of a problem -Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision to tight deadlines -Licensed Professional Civil Engineer in Ontario. Would be considered an asset to also be licensed in Nova Scotia, Quebec or British Columbia

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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.

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