Senior Environmental Specialist
Top Benefits
About the role
We are SLR Consulting (Canada), a 600+ team of advisory, environmental/engineering, and regulatory professionals across 20+ office locations in Canada. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.
As our new Senior Environmental Specialist , you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal.
Preference is to be based in Vancouver , BC to be with the other regional team members but with flexible work options. Travel across North America isn’t typical but may be required for projects or team related activities. Travel within Canada is a possibility, especially locally in British Columbia.
Cultural fit and shared vision are very important to SLR. We want to grow our team around the right people. If you are practical, highly motivated and a team player, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and contribute to the growth of our local permitting and regulatory practice in Canada, including building client relationships and identifying new business opportunities and contributing and leading proposals.
- Manage and oversee multidisciplinary environmental impact assessment, permitting, compliance, and due diligence projects from initiation to completion, across multiple sectors and geographies.
- Provide technical leadership in preparing complex environmental reports, regulatory submissions, and supporting documentation; review and approve work prepared by junior staff.
- Oversee and coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams, ensuring technical accuracy, regulatory compliance, and alignment with project objectives.
- Lead consultation and engagement programs with clients, regulators, Indigenous communities, and other stakeholders, ensuring transparent, respectful, and effective communication.
- Mentor and support junior and intermediate staff, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, professional growth, and collaboration. Assisting with the success of project managers with their duties including budget, scope and schedule tracking
- Promoting and maintaining a positive work environment through a culture of teamwork and cooperation.
Working @ SLR
With us, there is no doubt you’ll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.
Here’s what else you’ll enjoy as part of our team:
- Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives
- The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 . Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location. Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement
Qualifications/Education/Memberships:
- Post-secondary degree specializing in a related technical environmental discipline (environmental science or engineering, ecology, environmental law/policy).
- 10 (or more) years of experience in BC or relevant jurisdiction required
- Team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong technical writing skills, with an ability to synthesize technical information and develop plain language summaries.
- An understanding of municipal, provincial, and federal environmental regulatory and permitting requirements.
- Experience in a similar role in an environmental consulting environment is considered an asset.
- An understanding of international environmental and social impact assessment standards, guidelines and processes is an asset.
- Ability to travel within Canada periodically, as required.
SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.
About SLR Consulting
SLR’s purpose is Making Sustainability Happen.
We achieve this by having a team of expert advisors and technicians, who partner with our clients to tackle some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges, by utilising our collaborative and entrepreneurial One Team culture.
SLR has been advising clients for over 25 years at every point of their project life-cycle. Starting as a UK business, we now operate as a global company with more than 3,000 people delivering client solutions across six regions. We have grown both organically and through welcoming other like-minded businesses with a similar One Team culture into the SLR group. We are ably supported by our principal investor, Ares Management, and will continue to build a balanced, successful and growing business.
We’ve designed working life at SLR to look a little different. Because we know talented people often feel restricted by the rigid systems, lack of cross-functional collaboration and limited options for growth on offer elsewhere.
Our One Team culture promotes meaningful professional and personal growth, our flat management structure provides many opportunities to progress, and our collaborative approach means you’ll get the chance to work on projects you care about and make a real difference.
If you’re purpose-driven, self-motivated and keen to make an impact on a global scale, we want to hear from you.
Senior Environmental Specialist
Top Benefits
About the role
We are SLR Consulting (Canada), a 600+ team of advisory, environmental/engineering, and regulatory professionals across 20+ office locations in Canada. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.
As our new Senior Environmental Specialist , you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal.
Preference is to be based in Vancouver , BC to be with the other regional team members but with flexible work options. Travel across North America isn’t typical but may be required for projects or team related activities. Travel within Canada is a possibility, especially locally in British Columbia.
Cultural fit and shared vision are very important to SLR. We want to grow our team around the right people. If you are practical, highly motivated and a team player, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and contribute to the growth of our local permitting and regulatory practice in Canada, including building client relationships and identifying new business opportunities and contributing and leading proposals.
- Manage and oversee multidisciplinary environmental impact assessment, permitting, compliance, and due diligence projects from initiation to completion, across multiple sectors and geographies.
- Provide technical leadership in preparing complex environmental reports, regulatory submissions, and supporting documentation; review and approve work prepared by junior staff.
- Oversee and coordinate inputs from multidisciplinary teams, ensuring technical accuracy, regulatory compliance, and alignment with project objectives.
- Lead consultation and engagement programs with clients, regulators, Indigenous communities, and other stakeholders, ensuring transparent, respectful, and effective communication.
- Mentor and support junior and intermediate staff, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, professional growth, and collaboration. Assisting with the success of project managers with their duties including budget, scope and schedule tracking
- Promoting and maintaining a positive work environment through a culture of teamwork and cooperation.
Working @ SLR
With us, there is no doubt you’ll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.
Here’s what else you’ll enjoy as part of our team:
- Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives
- The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 . Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location. Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement
Qualifications/Education/Memberships:
- Post-secondary degree specializing in a related technical environmental discipline (environmental science or engineering, ecology, environmental law/policy).
- 10 (or more) years of experience in BC or relevant jurisdiction required
- Team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong technical writing skills, with an ability to synthesize technical information and develop plain language summaries.
- An understanding of municipal, provincial, and federal environmental regulatory and permitting requirements.
- Experience in a similar role in an environmental consulting environment is considered an asset.
- An understanding of international environmental and social impact assessment standards, guidelines and processes is an asset.
- Ability to travel within Canada periodically, as required.
SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.
About SLR Consulting
SLR’s purpose is Making Sustainability Happen.
We achieve this by having a team of expert advisors and technicians, who partner with our clients to tackle some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges, by utilising our collaborative and entrepreneurial One Team culture.
SLR has been advising clients for over 25 years at every point of their project life-cycle. Starting as a UK business, we now operate as a global company with more than 3,000 people delivering client solutions across six regions. We have grown both organically and through welcoming other like-minded businesses with a similar One Team culture into the SLR group. We are ably supported by our principal investor, Ares Management, and will continue to build a balanced, successful and growing business.
We’ve designed working life at SLR to look a little different. Because we know talented people often feel restricted by the rigid systems, lack of cross-functional collaboration and limited options for growth on offer elsewhere.
Our One Team culture promotes meaningful professional and personal growth, our flat management structure provides many opportunities to progress, and our collaborative approach means you’ll get the chance to work on projects you care about and make a real difference.
If you’re purpose-driven, self-motivated and keen to make an impact on a global scale, we want to hear from you.