ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT SPECIALIST

Dillon Consulting Limited is seeking an Environmental Assessment Specialist for its St. John's, NL office. The role involves developing client relationships, managing environmental projects, and leading a team of professionals in the Maritime Provinces and across Canada. Key responsibilities include business development, technical report writing, and executing environmental permitting programs. The position offers flexible work arrangements and requires strong leadership, communication skills, and a collaborative approach to problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.

Your opportunity

Dillon’s Environmental Sciences technical group is looking for an Environmental Assessment and Permitting Practitioner to join our existing talent base and you will have the opportunity to work on new and exciting projects while providing clients with a fully integrated and superior customer experience.

At Dillon, we operate as one team. The successful candidate can be based at any one of our following Atlantic offices: Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton, St. John’s, Halifax. We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

This position is largely focused on clients and projects in the Maritime Provinces, but will also include the potential to work on projects across Canada. As an Environmental Assessment and Permitting Practitioner at Dillon, you will be responsible for developing and fostering healthy client relationships and regulators, managing and supporting projects, scoping and executing field programs, technical report writing, and leading a dynamic team of environmental scientists, engineers and technologists.

Responsibilities

What your day will look like

1. Business Development
   • Build client relationships through identifying market opportunities, client communications, preparation of proposals, and business development activities.
   • Identify and pursue business opportunities within the marketplace, where Dillon might succeed in securing work assignments.
   • Present at, and participate in, conferences, technical workshops, webinars, and professional associations to raise the Dillon profile in the business community and among peers.
   • Collaboration with staff across Canada for the purposes of project delivery, client relationship development, and opportunity/project research.
2. Technical Development
   • Lead the scoping, development, and execution of environmental permitting and project approval programs, planning studies and managing environmental programs including research, field work, and technical report writing.
   • Support the development of environmental assessments registration documents, compensation/offsetting plans, and related environmental permitting assignments at the provincial and federal levels.
3. Project Management & Design
   • Scope, plan, develop, and implement field programs for a variety of natural resource, municipal, land development, and infrastructure projects.
   • Demonstrate leadership and coordination of staff across operating units.
   • Contribute to proposals (budget development and proposal writing).
   • Liaise with public and private sector clients, government review and approval agencies, sub-consultants and community representatives including Indigenous communities as well as the general public and stakeholders on specific development proposals.
   • Coordinate project team activities, provide direction to project team members, and contribute to development of staff.
4. Learning & Development
   • Continued development of self, including both technical skills and business acumen.
   • Contribution to the career development of less tenured staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching, and mentoring.
   • Contribution to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional.

Qualifications

What you will need to succeed
• A university degree or post-undergraduate college diploma in a relevant environmental, physical science, or engineering related discipline.
• An advanced degree in a related field would be an asset.
• A minimum of 8 years of demonstrated professional experience in environmental consulting, industrial, regulatory, or academic setting or related field with the specific emphasis on environmental assessment and permitting for development proposals.
• Valid driver’s license (Class 5).
• Excellent communication and report writing skills.
• Proficiency in English. Working knowledge of French would be considered an asset.

Experience

• In-depth knowledge of relevant provincial and federal environmental legislation, regulations, policies, guidelines, and regulatory permitting and approval requirements.
• Experience with municipal government bylaws and policies related to land development and environmental protection.
• Experience in the preparation of regulatory applications and submissions.
• General working knowledge of various environmental and social science disciplines with a specific focus on identifying potential environmental effects and mitigation associated with a proposed development.
• Expertise in a related technical discipline (such as terrestrial ecology, wildlife biology, aquatic biology, air quality, etc.) is an asset.
• Understanding of the application of Best Management Practices to environmental compliance and effectiveness monitoring programs.
• Experience in conducting public, stakeholder, and Indigenous engagement and consultation would be considered an asset.
• Excellent Project management and client relationship skills.
• Advanced critical thinking, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Commitment to project quality and capability of meeting project deadlines.

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

Core Values

We live our core values:
• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust.
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target.
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing.
• Creativity: discover new possibilities.
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard.
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

In addition, we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan
• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.
• A competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Generous retirement savings plan.
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions.
• Flexible work hours and remote working options
• Early Career Development (ECD) program
• Focus on Innovation
• Employee and Family Assistance program
• Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 20 offices and more than 1000 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 18 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon:

Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences.

Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business.

We encourage you to connect with us at accommodation@dillon.ca if you require accommodation in the interview process. We would love to hear from you!