Senior Reclamation and Remediation Specialist

The Opportunity

CCI Inc. is seeking a highly motivated and well-connected Senior Reclamation & Remediation Specialist to support the growth of our Environmental Services practice in Alberta. This is an opportunity for a senior environmental professional with strong technical credentials, established industry relationships, and demonstrated business development capability to help expand our reclamation and remediation services.

The successful candidate will combine technical leadership, project oversight, regulatory expertise, client relationship management, and strategic business development. Working with clients, regulators, Indigenous communities, landowners, contractors, and multidisciplinary internal teams, this individual will help clients address complex reclamation, remediation, closure, and environmental liability challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Business Development & Client Relationships

• Leverage existing industry relationships to identify, pursue, and secure reclamation and remediation opportunities across Alberta.
• Develop and maintain trusted, long-term relationships with existing and prospective clients.
• Lead client engagement, presentations, account development, and business development initiatives.
• Identify emerging market opportunities and contribute to strategic growth planning.
• Prepare, review, and contribute to proposals, cost estimates, scopes of work, and pursuit strategies.
• Represent CCI at industry conferences, networking events, and stakeholder meetings.
• Build effective relationships with regulators, Indigenous communities, landowners, contractors, and industry partners.

Technical Leadership

• Provide senior technical leadership from project initiation through regulatory closure.
• Lead planning, execution, reporting, and submissions for environmental site assessments; contaminated site investigations; remediation programs; reclamation assessments; Detailed Site Assessments; reclamation certificate applications; liability management and closure programs; and environmental due diligence.
• Review, approve, authenticate, and provide professional sign-off on technical reports and regulatory submissions where qualified and authorized to do so.
• Ensure technical work meets applicable regulatory requirements, professional practice obligations, client expectations, and CCI quality standards.
• Support quality assurance, quality control, technical standards, and continuous improvement.

Project Management

• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, deliverables, risk, and client expectations.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include environmental scientists, agrologists, engineers, geoscientists, biologists, GIS specialists, archaeologists, and regulatory advisors.
• Monitor project performance, utilization, forecasting, and profitability.
• Support contract administration, change management, invoicing, and project reporting.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard of quality.

Regulatory & Strategic Advisory

• Provide senior guidance on Alberta reclamation and remediation regulations, standards, and industry practices.
• Advise clients on liability management, site closure, regulatory compliance, remediation strategy, and reclamation certification.
• Prepare and oversee regulatory submissions and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain awareness of evolving regulatory requirements, government policy, and industry trends.
• Support audits, compliance reviews, environmental liability evaluations, and due diligence assessments.

Mentorship & Leadership

• Mentor, coach, and develop junior and intermediate environmental professionals.
• Contribute to staff development, technical capability building, and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of safety, technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership in the development of procedures, technical standards, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Agrology, Biology, Geology, or a related discipline.
• Professional designation in good standing, such as P.Ag., P.Biol., P.Geo., P.Eng., or an equivalent professional designation recognized in Alberta.
• Professional designation and scope of practice that permit independent professional sign-off and authentication of applicable technical reports, reclamation certificate applications, remediation documents, and regulatory submissions in Alberta.
• Demonstrated experience preparing, reviewing, authenticating, and providing professional sign-off on environmental repo