Terrestrial Ecologist Lead

**Okane** is an integrated engineering and geoscience consulting company with a global team across Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand.

We help mining companies to return mine-affected land responsibly and safely at the end of a mine’s lifecycle. We believe in challenging the status quo and advocate for meaningful partnerships and positive outcomes for community stakeholders and Indigenous rightsholders.

Our solutions are led by a team of interdisciplinary experts spanning various engineering, science, and technology-based fields, including community and stakeholder engagement, mine planning, mine closure design, geotechnical and civil engineering, geology, geochemistry, hydrology and hydrogeology, soil sciences, rehabilitation, revegetation, and environmental monitoring.

**Why Choose Us?**

We champion diversity and inclusion. We believe in flexibility, work-life balance, and an open-door approach to communication. We provide employees with the tools to succeed and grow with the company and benefits that ensure our employees have the means to feel fulfilled.

Okane’s purpose is to_ ‘Help Create a Better Tomorrow’. Our_ workplace culture is defined by the everyday behaviors of our team and driven by our core values: _Passionate, Thoughtful & Caring, Smart & Clever, Positive, and Humble_.

Our employees enjoy:

- Competitive salary and performance incentive.
- Annual vacation time.
- Paid sick days.
- Health and dental coverage.
- Health spending account.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Growth and advancement opportunities along with an annual allowance for professional development.
- Flexible workplace policy, including maternity and parental leave top-ups and flexibility when returning to work.
- Being a part of an organization recognized as one of the Top Employers of Saskatchewan (2023) & one of Canada’s top Small & Medium Employers (2023).

**Our Next Terrestrial Ecologist Lead...**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Terrestrial Ecologist Lead to join our team The role will lead and provide senior technical oversight to support the continued growth and development of our Rehabilitation and Reclamation service offering for Integrated Mine Closure and Mine Planning. This position is open to our Australian and Canadian offices.

**Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities**
- Provide advanced technical knowledge, guidance and quality outputs.
- Prepare and provide peer and senior technical reviews of reports developed by others.
- Ensure compliance is followed and regulatory implications assessed to follow federal and provincial environmental and global best practices.
- Conducting and coordinating detailed reviews of mining and reclamation activities.
- Provide senior technical input to project teams ensuring core processes and technical standards are followed.
- Prepare or review detailed work scopes for proposals.
- Interact competently with internal and external stakeholders of varying levels of expertise.
- Foster and maintain effective client and regulatory relationships and networks including the identification of innovative opportunities.
- Provide mentorship and a pathway for the development of resource skills within the technical discipline areas.
- Facilitate mentorship and technical training of resources and foster a culture of learning and development.
- Complete annual review of skills assessment for current and new employees and understand resources with development interest.
- Promote growth and opportunities within the technical discipline.
- Champion authentication and verification of technical deliverables.
- Develop and maintain key standard workflows.
- Ensure continuous improvement and technical quality within the team.
- Contribute to Okane’s strategic plan for growth within the technical discipline.
- Regularly identify opportunities in collaboration with Business Development and Innovation.

**Job Requirements**
- Embody Okane’s Core Visions (Help Create a Better Tomorrow) and Values (Passionate, Smart & Clever, Positive, Thoughtful & Caring, and Humble).
- Lead with integrity, fairness and transparency.
- Ensure Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines in the execution of all work.
- Understand the difference between strategic and tactical activity within the business.
- Proven advanced industry knowledge and experience in Canada, including strong client relationships and experience with Business Development.
- Experience within mine closure is considered an asset.
- Advanced knowledge and experience with environmental approvals and rehabilitation guidelines and standards within Canada.
- Strong terrestrial ecology background with a related professional designation within Canada is considered an asset.
- Demonstrate ability to prioritize, consider alternatives and respond quickly and effectively to unexpected and rapidly changing conditions.
- Demonstrate ability to evaluate the financial impacts of