Regulatory Environmental Planner

Montrose Environmental Group; Alberta; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental solutions company in Alberta seeks a Regulatory Environmental Planner to manage environmental planning projects. The role involves providing clients with regulatory guidance, overseeing project management, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Applicants should have over 5 years of experience in the field and a degree in environmental science or a related area. Competitive compensation and benefits offered.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

RRSP matching

Flexible work hours

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing environmental projects.
• Proven experience in multi-disciplinary project management.
• Working knowledge of environmental legislation and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with regulatory processes to obtain approvals.
• Manage, draft, and submit regulatory applications.
• Execute project management responsibilities for effective delivery.

Skills

Project management

Regulatory guidance

Communication skills

Environmental assessments

Education

Degree in environmental science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Regulatory Environmental Planner

Be part of the Future of Environmental Solutions. Montrose Environmental helps protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that feeds us. Our teammates collaborate across services, disciplines, and geographies to solve environmental challenges together – motivated to do better for our clients, each other, and the communities where we live and work. We deliver responsive, locally connected, and scalable solutions to help our clients achieve their ambitious goals for a more sustainable and resilient future.

Montrose is a leading environmental solutions company focused on supporting commercial and government organizations as they deal with today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. In Canada, we are one of the leading providers of environmental consulting and engineering services and part of a global network of teammates across 100+ locations around the world.

Our team is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion; we value the contributions and perspectives of all employees and strive to create a feeling of belonging for all. When we are inclusive and diverse, we draw from a wider community of excellence within the regions we operate.

What you will do

As a Regulatory Environmental Planner, you will join one of our Canadian office locations (e.g., Calgary, Edmonton, Lloydminster) as part of our growing Regulatory Planning and Permitting team. This position provides project management, environmental regulatory guidance and application support to internal and external clients during the design, construction, operations, and closure for a variety of projects across Canada.

The successful applicant will be involved in a broad range of projects with responsibilities as follows:

• Assist clients in understanding regulatory processes, issues affecting project development and timelines, propose mitigation and advise on appropriate strategic approach for obtaining regulatory approvals.
• Analyze, assess, and interpret development plans to recommend design solutions and mitigation strategies to avoid or reduce environmental effects.
• Manage, draft, review and submit regulatory applications for western Canadian projects (potential for eastern Canadian project opportunities as well).
• Execute project management responsibilities to support effective project delivery and successful client outcomes, including:
• internal and external meeting management - project/field/reporting kick-offs, client update meetings, regulator and stakeholder meetings;
• schedule development, management and tracking;
• change order management;
• project progress updates;
• budget development and oversight; and
• invoicing and financial tracking
• Preparation and review of technical proposals, applications, work plans, cost estimates, and summary reports.
• Interact directly with clients to provide project updates and regulatory guidance.
• Lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within Montrose and sub-contractors to deliver high quality results for our clients.
• Coordinate and manage environmental field work for various environmental disciplines.
• Maintain knowledge and tracking of environmental regulatory changes to be communicated to clients and internal Montrose teams to be adopted into project considerations.
• Supervise junior staff and provide coaching and mentorship to developing staff members.
• Work with senior technical advisors to support high-quality product that meets our clients’ unique project needs.
• Function effectively as a contributor to a collaborative team.
• Participation in maintaining Montrose’s strong safety culture.

What We Are Looking For

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing environmental and regulatory planning and permitting projects in western Canada within a consulting environment.
• Proven experience in directing and managing multi-disciplinary projects (client communications, scheduling, change order management, budgets, cost estimates, and invoicing).
• Working knowledge of environmental and planning legislation, regulations, directives, and procedures.
• Experience writing and coordinating technical reports.
• Self-motivated and possess strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Ability to provide technical direction and mentorship to junior and intermediate professionals.
• A valid and clean driver’s license with no restrictions.
• A degree in environmental science, biology, geography, geology, engineering, or equivalent.

Experience working on the following is required:

• Provincially regulated projects in Alberta, British Columbia, and/or Saskatchewan.
• Pipeline development projects and Public Lands Act.
• Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (EPEA) applications under the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) or Environmental Protected Areas (EPA) for new facilities, amendments, and renewals and pipeline development projects.
• Multi-disciplinary project management.

The following are considered assets:

• Experience with environmental regulatory projects for the full project life-cycle from planning through construction, into operations and decommissioning and reclamation.
• Project management using Workday (or equivalent software platform).
• Experience with Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) Rule 007.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Alberta Water Act and wetland policy
• Familiarity with and experience working on Aboriginal Consultation Office (ACO) submissions and Indigenous engagement.
• Experience with federally regulated projects in western Canada and familiarity with the Federal Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER) Act.
• Experience providing environmental regulatory support to mining projects.
• Construction based environmental monitoring experience.
• Professional designations such as P.Biol., P.Ag., P.Eng., P.Geo., PMP, EP etc.

Why Choose Montrose

At Montrose you will be part of an amazing community of collaborative people who live shared mission and principles and bring industry-leading technical expertise to their work every day. We offer a comprehensive compensation package, which includes benefits, RRSP matching, vacation days and sick days. This is a permanent position with an hourly rate range of $34.00-$53.00, starting pay is dependent on multiple factors, such as skills, experience and work location. We are also committed to flexible work hours and schedules, team-based work, and cross-training opportunities.

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Are you the one we\'re looking for? Please apply to us directly. As a note, we are not accepting third party agency applicants at this time.

Montrose is committed to providing a safe and productive work environment and to promoting the health, safety and well-being of our employees. In keeping with our Health & Safety Policy, individuals in safety sensitive positions are subject to pre-employment, pre-access (and in some client cases, random) alcohol and drug testing as well as drivers abstract reviews.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in Canada with no restrictions.

We welcome and promote diversity and inclusion in our workplace and encourage applications from all qualified individuals. Montrose provides support in its recruitment processes to applicants with disabilities; including accommodation that takes into account an applicant’s accessibility needs. Candidates requiring accommodation during the recruitment process are asked to contact Human Resources directly.

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While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.