Senior Manager, Permitting

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Professional development opportunities

Competitive compensation

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Permitting to lead a high‑profile airport program in Toronto. The role focuses on delivering the owner’s permitting obligations and coordinating the permitting team across multiple departments to ensure compliance and programme success.

You will coach and mentor staff, provide strategic guidance to executives, and develop governance for permitting across a large-scale project, with emphasis on risk, safety, and regulatory alignment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience with at least 10 in on-site permitting management/leadership.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in large international airport projects or programs CAD > CAD $500M.
• Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholder relationships and providing strategic level reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Permitting team to coordinate a robust permit-to-work process across the program.
• Develop and implement governance and processes for large-scale permitting.
• Coordinate with safety, operations, commercial, and maintenance departments.

Skills

Permitting leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive reporting

Staff mentoring

Strategic guidance

Education

Degree + professional designation (asset)

Job description

Job Description Overview AtkinsRéalis is dedicated in engineering a better future for our planet and its people. AtkinsRéalis is hiring a Senior Manager, Permitting to join our growing team, based in Toronto. The Senior Manager, Permitting will support a transformative large scale airport program and will be part of a high-performing project team based in the west end of Toronto.

Your role

Deliver the owner’s permitting obligations. Manage the Permitting team to effectively coordinate and assure a robust permit to work process across the program. Develop and implement revised governance and processes required for effective permitting on a program of this size, scale, and complexity. Liaise with the other departments including corporate safety and security, operations, commercial, and maintenance to coordinate permitting. Confirm the contractors’ Permitting plans and implement the assurance regime for the program. Work collaboratively with the Program Leads and the other PMO Services functional leads to ensure that Permitting is integrated across the program. Provide Management and Executive level reporting and provide advice and subject matter expertise with respect to trends and corrective actions. Provide advice and guidance with respect to permitting policy and regulations that impact program delivery. Coaching, mentoring, and supporting the career development of staff.

About you

Recognized degree and professional designation is considered an asset. Minimum of 15 years of professional experience with 10 in an on-site permitting management and/or leadership role. Minimum 5 years of professional experience in large international airport projects or equivalent infrastructure programs greater than CAD $500M. Demonstrated experience in managing teams to deliver permitting requirements on complex projects and programs. Demonstrable experience in managing senior stakeholder relationships and providing strategic level reporting to enable effective decision making. Able to demonstrate significant expertise in permitting including internal airport operational permits and external permits, approvals, and consents. Good working knowledge of health, safety, and security requirements and their impact upon the permit to work process. Strong technical capability in all project phases, including design, planning, construction, operations, and maintenance preferably large program/projects. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills including the ability to facilitate meeting / workshops with large groups of stakeholders.

Rewards & benefits

• Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.
• Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.
• And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people.

We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

Additional information

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