Senior Reclamation 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 British Columbia. The successful candidate will combine technical leadership, project oversight, regulatory expertise, client relationship management, and strategic business development, with particular strength in contaminated sites, regulatory closure, and dormant pipeline programs.

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 established British Columbia industry relationships to identify, pursue, and secure reclamation and remediation opportunities.
• Develop trusted relationships with clients, regulators, Indigenous communities, landowners, contractors, and industry partners.
• Lead client engagement, proposals, estimates, scopes, presentations, account development, and pursuit strategy.
• 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 preliminary site investigations; contaminated site investigations; remediation programs; reclamation assessments; detailed site assessments; applicable closure instrument or Certificate of Restoration; liability management and closure programs; and environmental due diligence.
• 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.
• Review, approve, authenticate, and provide professional sign-off on technical reports and regulatory submissions within the candidate’s authorized scope of practice.
• Provide professional leadership, i.e., CSAP or other professional designation, for contaminated-sites investigations, remediation planning, risk assessment, instruments of compliance, and regulatory closure submissions.
• Maintain quality assurance, quality control, technical standards, and defensible documentation.

Dormant Pipelines & Regulatory Closure

• Lead or support dormant pipeline and site compliance programs under B.C. Reg. 112/2019, including classification, annual work plans and reports, engagement and notification, decommissioning, assessment, remediation, restoration, liability reduction planning, pipeline deactivation timelines, invasive plant compliance records, and evidence retention.
• Coordinate environmental requirements with pipeline deactivation, reactivation, abandonment, integrity management, restoration, applicable permit conditions, and qualified professional inputs.
• Develop portfolio controls that assign owners, track regulatory deadlines, retain evidence, identify risk, and support BCER-facing deliverables.

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

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