Senior Solid Waste Project Manager

HDR; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 155,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the waste management sector is seeking a Senior Solid Waste Project Manager in Vancouver. The role focuses on project management, client relationship building, and strategic planning within the waste sector. Ideal candidates will possess a strong engineering background, significant project management experience, and the drive to innovate waste management solutions.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off and parental leave

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Qualifications

• 10 years related experience in solid waste management.
• A minimum of 5 years project management experience.
• Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license.

Responsibilities

• Manage waste-related projects including scope development and client relations.
• Drive business development and manage project quality control.
• Lead technical messaging and attendance at industry events.

Skills

Project Management

Business Development

Strategic Planning

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

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HDR is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Solid Waste Project Manager for its Canadian Waste Sector who has an interest in expanding their career across all facets of the business and a broad range of services. This position is a key role for our Waste Sector growth, responsible for supporting business development activities, and providing project management and technical expertise for a diverse set of waste clients and services across Canada and the United States. The long-term vision for this role is to build a team that will support the circular economy, zero waste and implementation of alternative technologies for managing residual materials.

As part of the Waste team in Canada, the role will include promoting technical excellence, including coaching and career development of the team; maintenance and implementation of industry best practices; and building HDR's reputation for technical excellence and thought leadership.

The candidate must have a strong background in solid waste services pertaining to the waste market sector. The position will involve working closely with HDR Resources, Waste Sector leadership and local staff to drive program development from a geographic and national basis. Provides HDR with senior consulting and project management leadership, in the Waste Sector, managing both planning and engineering related projects and developing client relationships. Position encompasses a client focus, networking and establishing client relationships, developing leads, and strategic thinking in future directions for both our clients and programs. It also includes identifying market changes and anticipating their impacts to the business, pre-proposal visitations and supporting proposal preparation with technical and marketing staff by providing client-centric input and feedback and giving presentations.

Specific Duties Include

• Possesses and maintains a deep understanding of how clients perceive their technical problems and has the ability to package HDR expertise as solutions to these problems. In turn, supports marketing (business development) leadership in crafting client capture plan strategies.
• Senior Project Manager for waste related projects (seller-doer).
• Manage projects, including scope and/or proposal development, project team development and assignment, project execution, quality reviews, project closeout, and quality control, schedule, and budget management.
• Works with business development leadership to prioritize the marketing and business development efforts of the organization to prioritize business efforts that provide maximum return on investment.
• Identifies and develops opportunities to expand services to clients.
• Champions a quality-culture within the sector organization, and within production teams, serving the sector’s clients.
• Acts as client manager for select clients, actively developing relationships with the candidate’s previous contacts and HDR’s existing clients.
• Leads risk management activities for both contract reviews and project deliverables.
• Directs the technical messaging and professional attendance at professional organizations and industry events.
• Works with Market Sector leads to establish direction and growth strategies for the practice.
• Identify key staff needs and assist in process of attracting and hiring staff to build team to support project work.
  
  

Why HDR

At HDR, we know work isn't only about who you work for it's also about what you do and how you do it. Led by the strength of our values and a culture shaped by employee ownership, we network with each other, build on each other's contributions, and collaborate together to make great things possible. When you join HDR, we give you license to do the same. We help you take charge of your career, giving you multiple growth opportunities along the way.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• 10 years related experience
• A minimum 5 years project management experience
• Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license
• MS Office and MS Project experience (Access experience would be plus)
• Demonstrated leadership, business development and strategic planning skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences
• A minimum of 15 years working with regulatory and approval/permitting agencies, conceptual design and site layout, writing proposals, developing scopes of work, budgets, and schedules for complex waste projects.
• Skills:
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills for a broad range of audiences
• Strong conceptual, organizational, analytical, problem solving and research abilities
• Ability to support multiple complex and time sensitive projects effectively
• Identify and resolve issues effectively and efficiently
• Recognize and understand big picture concepts while recognizing details that are important
• Fostering collaborative team attitudes
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Able to work under and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to interact with design and construction teams in a positive and proactive manner.
  

We provide a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement. The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. (Stated benefits are for full-time regular positions. Temporary and part-time roles eligible for limited benefits.) The pay range for Vancouver: $155,000 -$229,000.

Primary Location

Canada-Ontario-Richmond Hill

Other Locations

Canada-Ontario-Toronto, Canada-Alberta-Calgary, Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver

Industry

Waste

Schedule

Full-time

Employee Status

Regular

Job Posting

Jun 3, 2025

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management, Consulting, and Engineering

• Industries

  Civil Engineering and Environmental Services

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