Environmental Project Director

WSP; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental consulting firm located in Calgary is seeking a Project Director to guide project strategies within their Remediation Program Management team. This role involves mentoring team members, leading challenging environmental projects across Canada, and implementing safety protocols. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences and 15+ years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience in the environmental industry.
• Knowledge of health and safety in oil and gas training is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Mentor new team members in their career path.
• Identify and define project specific strategies.
• Enhance project health and safety plans.
• Lead complex technical environmental projects.

Skills

Coaching and mentoring

Environmental consulting knowledge

Technical problem-solving

Project delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences

Professional designation

Job description

Overview

The Remediation Program Management team is your opportunity to apply your skills and join a diverse and growing team within WSP supporting our key clients. We are seeking team members who are eager to assist informing strategy and policy, support new young professionals, and bring and share new ideas in solving the biggest environmental remediation challenges for our biggest clients. Formulate your career development plan and be a mentor to bond with over the technical, client and project delivery activities. Join our team and support our passion for environmental remediation, characterization and reclamation; saving the planet one site at a time.

A typical day in the life at WSP for the Project Director

Responsibilities

• Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying, coaching and mentoring others with your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
• As a part of our team, we each bring our lived experiences in hand, where we have the power to design a place where people, friends, families and neighbours can thrive.
• Maintain a work-life balance, logging in remotely or attending the office in a hybrid work solution of 3 days a week in the office.
• Clearly identify and define project specific strategies, advising the project team of the project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to the team and clients.
• Be a mentor to others within WSP, sharing your experiences and knowledge.
• Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, reviewing and enhancing project health and safety plans.
• Participate and be a member of a 10-20 person client-specific delivery team, while at the same time supporting with your experience and expertise to the entire RPM group.
• Have a really complex technical issue? Engage with a Practice Area Network (PAN) who may have experienced the same issue in Australia, Malaysia, or even exotic locations like Saskatoon.
• Lead and work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western, Eastern and Northern Canada

Apply today and be part of a team that transforms challenges into opportunities.

Qualities and Qualifications

You’re the type of person who has one or more of these qualities:

• Stops and takes time out of your busy day to help coworkers, especially new team members, understand assignments and help mentor them in their career path
• A passion for coaching and mentoring co-workers, helping them to develop the skills you’ve mastered in environmental consulting
• Miss going to the field and getting to see what’s really going on in the ground
• Can’t get enough learning

You’ve got the following minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences
• Professional designation
• 15+ years experience in the environmental industry
• Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industry