Waste Management Specialist

Overview:
**Your opportunity**

Are you someone with developing leadership and technical capabilities? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a trusted partner and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.

Dillon’s **Communities and Environment** technical group is looking for a **Waste Management Planner **to join our multidisciplinary team of professionals. 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. This position is available in our Dillon **Toronto (North York or Downtown), Guelph, **or** Hamilton** offices.

**Responsibilities**:
**What your day will look like**

**Waste Management Planning**
- Assistance in solid waste projects related to waste diversion programs, waste management planning and approvals, and waste management facilities
- Perform assessments, calculations, data collection, and data analysis to support planning and engineering activities.
- Assist project managers and liaise with waste management specialists, engineers, environmental scientists, and others on a variety of multidisciplinary design teams (including project engineers, planners, biologists, technologists, etc.).
- Field work related to construction observation, data collection, and inspection.
- Coordinate and manage project tasks, budgets and schedules.

**Learning & Development**
- Commit to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development.
- Contribute to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.

Qualifications:
**What you will need to succeed**
- A degree in engineering, environmental sciences or planning.
- 2 - 5 years of experience in solid waste management, preferably within a consulting environment.

**Experience**:

- Strong verbal and written communications skills, and keen attention to detail.
- Aptitude to learn.
- Ability to understand and work with relevant provincial and federal environmental legislation, environmental policies, codes and standards.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint is an asset

**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.

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.

**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.

Please connect with us if you require accommodation in the interview process. We would love to hear from you