Senior Project Coordinator – Solid Waste Management

AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc.; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work culture

Flexible benefits

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is expanding its national Solid Waste Management team in Canada, offering flexible locations across BC, AB, ON, NB. The role focuses on coordinating complex waste infrastructure projects for diverse clients, ensuring quality and timely deliverables.

Ideal candidates have 10–15 years of experience, a relevant degree, bilingual French-English ability, and readiness to travel for projects with municipalities, industrial and mining clients across Canada.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environment, or related discipline; PE designation is a strong asset where required by assignment.
• Project-management training or certification is an asset.
• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience coordinating or delivering solid waste, environmental infrastructure or professional-services projects.

Responsibilities

• Structure assignments and clarify scope, interfaces, dependencies and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain work plans, schedules, budgets, and risk, decision, action and change logs.
• Coordinate technical, environmental, regulatory, operational and commercial inputs.
• Ensure the consistency, quality, traceability and timely delivery of studies, reports, drawings, specifications, estimates and permit packages.
• Facilitate meetings; issue clear records and follow through on commitments.
• Act as the central interface for clients, subconsultants, partners and regulators with project managers and technical leads.

Skills

Project management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Budgeting

Communication

French & English

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environment, or related field

Job description

Job Description Overview

AtkinsRéalis is experiencing significant growth in its Solid Waste Management practice across Canada. To support the expansion of our project portfolio and meet the growing demand for our engineering and advisory services, we are expanding our national team. We deliver projects for municipalities, public and parapublic organizations, industrial and mining clients, as well as First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities across Canada, including urban, northern, remote and environmentally sensitive regions.

Flexible Location: We are open to candidates based in various regions across Canada (BC, AB, ON, NB), offering flexibility while supporting collaboration with our national team.

Your role

• Structure assignments and clarify scope, responsibilities, interfaces, dependencies and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain work plans, schedules, budgets, and risk, decision, action and change logs.
• Coordinate technical, environmental, regulatory, operational and commercial inputs.
• Ensure the consistency, quality, traceability and timely delivery of studies, reports, drawings, specifications, estimates and permit packages.
• Facilitate kick-off, coordination, review and decision meetings; issue clear records and follow through on commitments.
• Act as the central interface for clients, subconsultants, partners and regulators in collaboration with project managers and technical leads.
• Coordinate feasibility studies, alternatives analyses and technology assessments across waste-management streams.
• Anticipate capacity, cost, schedule, quality, compliance, acceptance and constructability issues and coordinate corrective actions.
• Support the preparation and integration of ministerial and regulatory authorization applications.
• Contribute to proposals, methodologies, effort and fee estimates, and business development on demand.
• Coach less-experienced resources and improve project-delivery tools and practices.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environment, project management or a related discipline; a professional engineering designation is a strong asset where required by the assignment.
• Project-management training or certification is an asset.
• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience coordinating or delivering solid waste, environmental infrastructure or professional-services projects.
• Experience with municipal, public, parapublic, institutional, industrial or mining clients.
• Northern, remote or Indigenous-community experience is an asset.
• Demonstrated multidisciplinary coordination and cost, schedule, risk, change and deliverable control experience.
• Good understanding of waste-management systems, regulatory issues and operational realities.
• Ability to integrate diverse inputs, set priorities and advance several assignments concurrently.
• Excellent judgment, organization, autonomy, diplomacy, and written and verbal communication.
• Bilingual French and English*; available for occasional travel.
• * This position requires proficiency in English, in addition to French, as the successful candidate will regularly collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, clients and partners across Canada.

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. Be rewarded.

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.

Additional information

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Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

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.

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