Project Manager, Contaminated Sites

Socket.dev; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD in Calgary, AB seeks a Senior Project Manager for the Canada West Contamination Assessment & Remediation Group. You will lead environmental site assessments, reclamation, and remediation projects, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage scope, schedule, budget, and risk, and mentor early-career professionals.

You will be based in the downtown Calgary office with flexibility to work from home up to two days per week and complimentary parking.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in environmental consulting with remediation and site assessments.
• Experience guiding junior staff and mentoring early-career professionals.
• Ability and willingness to travel for client meetings and site visits.

Responsibilities

• Lead intermediate to complex environmental projects from initiation to closeout.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, risk, and resource requirements.
• Maintain regular client communication on progress, financials, and milestones.
• Coordinate vendors, subcontractors, and partner teams for field execution.

Skills

Client management

Project management

Environmental consulting

Oil & Gas experience

Mentoring

Leadership

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering

Geology

Environmental Science

Tools

Analytics dashboards

Job description

GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 12,000 diverse and skilled individuals across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.

The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy, and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.

Who are we looking for?

GHD has an opportunity for a Senior Project Managerto join our Canada West Team’s Contamination Assessment and Remediation Group.

We are seeking a client-facing project professional with strong environmental consulting experience and demonstrated success delivering oil & gas and energy-sector projects, including upstream, midstream, downstream, or related operating environments. This role is intended to work as a peer alongside other Project Managers on the team, bringing the confidence and judgment to manage moderately complex to complex projects while helping strengthen project delivery practices across the group.

The successful candidate will lead environmental site assessments, reclamation, and remediation projects, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage scope, schedule, budget, and risk, and provide practical guidance and coaching to new graduates and early-career professionals.

The role is to be based in GHD’s downtown Calgary office, with flexibility to work from home up to two days per week, as well as complimentary parking before 9:00 a.m.

Working with an energetic and high-performing team, this position offers a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities and will see you involved in:

Leading intermediate to complex environmental projects, ensuring clear scope, schedule, budget, resourcing, risk, and execution plans are in place from initiation through closeout.

Managing day-to-day project execution as a trusted peer within the PM team, including evaluation of performance, risks, issues, changes, and dependencies while coordinating internal teams and external partners to maintain delivery, quality, and expected outcomes.

Serving as a client-facing project lead by maintaining regular communication with clients and internal stakeholders on project progress, financial performance, regulatory obligations, emerging risks, and upcoming milestones.

Coordinating the retention and oversight of vendors, subcontractors, and partner teams, ensuring consistent standards for field execution, site access requirements, health and safety expectations, and quality outcomes across oil & gas and energy-sector projects.

What you will bring to the team:

• Demonstrated experience delivering environmental projects for oil & gas or energy-sector clients, with accountability for client relationships, project performance, and delivery excellence on moderately complex to complex assignments.

• Intermediate to senior project management capability across scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and resource management, with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams in a structured, practical, and collaborative way.

• Ability to work effectively as a peer to other Project Managers while bringing sound judgment, ownership, and calm leadership to more complex project situations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence leading client discussions, coordinating internal stakeholders, mentoring developing professionals, and delivering clear project reporting.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in environmental consulting, including environmental remediation and site assessments, report writing, data management and interpretation, project management, and client management, preferably with significant exposure to oil & gas projects.

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, or a related field.

• Experience guiding or mentoring junior technical staff, new graduates, or early-career professionals within a consulting project delivery environment would be considered an asset.

• Ability and willingness to travel for client meetings, project coordination, and occasional field or site visits is required.

• Familiarity with analytics dashboards and data management practices that support compliance tracking and decision-making.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment is just getting started and may be used during the hiring process to improve efficiency and fairness. While AI may support some steps throughout the process, all final hiring decisions are made by humans.

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As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.