Project Manager, Waste Services

AET Group is currently seeking an experienced **Project Manager, Waste Services **to join our team and quickly step into a leadership position. This is a full-time, permanent role.

AET Group is a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting, auditing and scientific services company providing professional services to the built and natural environments in the following core service areas: waste, air, compliance, building sciences, mitigation, GHG, sustainability, audits, water, management systems, home flood protection and energy. Headquartered in Kitchener Ontario, AET provides services across Canada and the United States. AET is looking for dedicated, skilled, and knowledgeable people to complement our current team.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to our growth, working on diverse waste projects across Canada, including municipal and ICI waste studies and reduction strategies, material recovery facility commissioning, optimization and quality studies, litter studies, food waste studies, EPR, Circular Economy, and waste reduction planning.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Management of waste projects including the planning and execution of waste studies
- Project oversight and management of waste team leaders and support staff
- Review of data and reports; report writing
- Manage and lead waste studies, including sample collection (e.g., curbside residential waste collection, landfill waste collection, recycling collection), and sample sorting to characterize and determine garbage, recycling, and organic composition by material type.
- Assist with quotation, tender, proposal writing, and project costing.
- Client relations and business development in waste management across Canada and North America
- Preparing billable tasks to be invoiced
- Promotion of company through attendance at trade shows, conferences, and speaking engagements
- Other duties as requested from time to time.

**Qualifications**:

- 3-5 years of previous experience managing waste-related projects and small teams.
- Degree or Diploma in Environmental Studies or a related field with previous experience and knowledge in waste/recycling audits.
- Certified EP with waste specialization is an asset.
- MS Excel, Word, and Projects knowledge and use is required. Strong data analysis and reporting skills required.
- Driver’s license with clean driver’s abstract and access to a vehicle is required; being comfortable driving a pickup truck and pulling a cargo trailer is required.
- Must possess excellent oral, written, organizational and multi-tasking skills.
- Ability to function in a team environment and make decisions confidently.
- Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be punctual and dependable with a professional demeanor.
- Possess initiative, adaptability, flexibility, and a willingness to learn.

**Competencies**:

- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

**Physical Capabilities**:

- Regularly required to sit, stand, walk.
- Able to lift 20 kg.
- Regularly required to work outside in varying weather conditions.
- PPE requirements: half-mask respirator/mask, safety glasses, gloves, hard hat, safety footwear, coveralls, reflective vest - all provided by AET.

**About us**:
AET Group is an environmental consultancy firm committed to our ecological, financial, and social responsibilities, working together collaboratively to find innovative solutions that work and remembering that underneath it all, we’re human beings working with other human beings to make a difference both locally and globally.

Founded in 1998 with a focus on waste services, we have diversified over the past 25 years to provide environmental consulting, auditing, and scientific services to the built and natural environments in 12 core practice areas: air, compliance, building sciences, mitigation, GHG, waste, sustainability, audits, water, management systems, home flood protection and energy. Our emphasis at AET has been sustainable solutions - as a service to clients, throughout our own operations and day-to-day practices.

**Why AET?**

It is the AET team and company culture that sets us apart from other companies. AET strives to foster a culture of collaboration and respect, while providing a safe working environment and providing superior service. Employees at AET are highly motivated and value honesty, openness, and integrity, while displaying a strong commitment to the environment.
- Sustainability culture throughout company.
- Competitive comprehensive remuneration.
- Paid training and career development opportunities.
- Professional membership reimbursem