Director, Environment

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**Director, Environment**

Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 11

Employment type: Permanent Region: Various

Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid

Annual salary: $ 189,200.00 - 239,200.00

**What you'll do**
- The Director, Environment leads the portfolio responsible for strategic and operational management of BC Hydro’s
environmental and social related risks. As a senior leader of the company, the Director is responsible for a budget of
approximately $48 million, and oversees the development and implementation of strategic plans, practices, and standards
to ensure compliance in operations and capital projects. The Director’s business unit is also responsible for delivering on
regulatory commitments that support BC Hydro water licenses through the Water License Requirements Program and the
Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program. The Director develops strategic relationships with First Nations, government
regulators and external stakeholders, and acts as representative of BC Hydro on senior committees. Reporting to the SVP,
Capital Infrastructure Project Delivery, this role oversees an organization of about 127 union and non-union employees with
six direct reports.
- Work across all business groups to facilitate environmental risk management for fisheries, wildlife, pollution prevention,

greenhouse gas management, and heritage requirements through the integration of environmental and heritage
considerations into the business.
- Be accountable for defining and establishing governance and environmental compliance requirements across projects and

operations, including Site C, to ensure consistency in strategy, decision making, practices, and controls. This includes
responsibility for the Environment Strategy and Statement of Environmental Principles for the company, overseeing and
reporting on environmental performance, and providing authoritative counsel to executives and business group leaders on
strategies to maintain regulatory compliance and facility authorizations.
- Be accountable for providing environmental and permitting services and expertise to support timely delivery of capital

projects, operations and maintenance planning at the plant and field level across the province. This includes support in the
implementation and execution of work and the management and mitigation of any resulting environmental impacts;
- Be accountable for delivery of BC Hydro’s many obligations to monitor and mitigate operational and historical footprint

impacts through delivery of the Water License Requirements Program that support the Water Use Planning process, and
delivery of the Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (in partnership with First Nations, provincial and federal agencies,
and public representatives).
- Establish long term priorities and contribute to overall strategic business direction for the organization. Lead proactive

thinking, development, and the initiation of progressive environmental planning in projects and operations.
- Be responsible for the oversight, implementation and maintenance of the Environmental Management System.
- Develop strategic relationships with First Nations, Senior Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, Ministry of

Environment, BC Energy Regulator, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials on matters related to the planning,
permitting and operation of all BC Hydro assets, Compensation Programs and Water License Requirements.
- Develop and maintain good relations with government agencies, other utilities and environmental groups to effectively
- assess and address emerging environmental issues, regulatory changes, and evolving technologies.
- Be accountable for the Quarterly and Annual Environmental Management Review process. The purpose of the Annual

Review is to assess the suitability and effectiveness of the Environmental Management System, to set environmental
direction for the company, and to ensure implementation of applicable decisions.
- Provide leadership and coaching to a team of both union and non-union staff.
- Prepare annual management plans; provide approval for projects and maintain control of expenditures in accordance with

BC Hydro’s administrative procedures.

**What you bring**
- Bachelor’s degree in a field of Natural Resource Management or Sciences, Environment or Sustainability, Business

Administration, Public Administration, Engineering, or Law. Master