Environmental Project Manager

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We are currently seeking a Project Manager to join our Environmental Services team in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Your role will be to lead various sized projects, manage them, and provide technical guidance. The successful candidate will work within our Site Investigation, Remediation & Response practice area, managing projects and project teams across various sectors. We are looking for an enthusiastic professional that can provide technical excellence and leadership and support the growing role that our clients have asked us to take on.

• Develop, monitor and manage proposals, work plans, budgets, project files and project schedules.
• Manage Phase I, II, and III Environmental Site Assessments.
• Soil, groundwater, surface water, and soil vapor monitoring programs.
• Soil and groundwater remediation programs.
• Emergency Spill Response programs.
• Provide appropriate environmental/engineering input and a technical overview to design activities residing within or outside the project team (locally, regionally, or nationally) where relevant.
• Prepare technical environmental reports, conduct and/or lead field work, and manage existing and new projects.
• Participate in marketing and business development activities and initiatives, contribute to cost estimates of projects in collaboration with all other disciplines.
• Ensure that the deliverables provided to the project are technically accurate, within specifications, scope, budget, and schedule, suitable for the intended purpose and in compliance with quality procedures and project plans.
• Interface with other departments, project managers, team members, clients, sub‑consultants, and vendors during all phases of projects to ensure a good working interface and accurate exchange of technical data.
• Collaborate and coordinate with project teams to determine and achieve project objectives.
• Participate and/or lead regular project meetings.
• Conduct peer and quality reviews on all applicable projects.
• Lead a safety culture on projects.

• Solid understanding of the consulting industry in a multidisciplinary environment.
• High level of personal and professional credibility.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, including experience authoring technical reports, proposals, and letters.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Manitoba Guidelines. Experience with additional regulatory regimes will be considered an asset.
• Successful experience initiating and maintaining relationships with co‑workers, clients, regulators, and other external stakeholders.
• Proven experience in client service management, including the ability to interface with clients and to build and maintain lasting, positive relationships.
• Ability to participate and collaborate in project team settings and to engage in creative and critical thought.
• Thorough understanding of engineering concepts and ability to effectively communicate ideas to others.
• Effective decision‑making experience, including making sound defensible business decisions and identifying, assessing, evaluating and solving complex problems.
• Proven ability to manage contracts from start to finish, from proposal through to project execution and closure.

• Degree or diploma in Environmental Science, Geology, Hydrogeology, Engineering or related field.
• Ten years of demonstrated relevant professional experience.
• Ability to register or become eligible for registration with the Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba (EGM) is an asset, but not required.
• Demonstrated commitment to health and safety policies and procedures.

Primary Location: Canada | MB | Winnipeg
Schedule: Full time
Travel: No
Employee Status: Regular

Regular full‑time and part‑time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax‑free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short‑term/long‑term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax‑free savings account. The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

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