Environmental Planner

Overview:
Are you an experienced
**Environmental Planner** and skillful at balancing environmental protection with engineering requirements? Do you thrive completing impact assessments with a skilled multi-disciplinary team of environmental specialists and engineers? Then we have the team for you

**Your Opportunity**

We are looking for an individual with
**at least 3 years of experience, **who is passionate about building on Dillon’s strong reputation for completing innovative Environmental Assessments.

Are you an experienced
**Environmental Planner/Environmental Impact Assessment Specialist** with strong leadership and technical capabilities that is skillful at balancing environmental protection with engineering requirements? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a thoughtful leader, a trusted advisor and a problem solver? Do you thrive completing impact assessments with a skilled multi-disciplinary team of environmental specialists and engineers? Then we have the team for you

**Environmental Planner **in one of our
**Ontario Offices**. You will be a member of
**Dillon’s Environmental Planning Group** and work with our biologists, environmental scientists, planners and engineers located in our offices across Canada. You will be key part of our multi-disciplinary group serving our diverse range of public and private sector clients across Canada.

**Dillon is an employee-owned professional consulting firm, with a strong emphasis on providing flexible work arrangements, career develop opportunities and a supportive and collaborative team environment. **We provide a wide range of consulting and design services related to the infrastructure, real estate, resource, industrial and government sectors in Canada and abroad. We are leaders in the delivery of Environmental Assessments across Canada. This is a key business area for us.

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

**Environmental Planning**

**As a key team member, you will have the opportunity to**:

- Manage/Lead projects for public and private sector clients related to Environmental Assessment (EA), environmental permitting and approvals, and environmental compliance monitoring, with a focus on Linear infrastructure EAs (Municipal Class EA, MTO, Hydro One, Metrolinx)
- Develop and lead innovative public and agency consultation programs
- Build client relationships through identification of market opportunities, client communications, preparation of proposals, and business development activities

**Learning & Development**
- Commit to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development
- Input to the career development of junior staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching and mentoring
- Contribute to Dillon’s corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees

Qualifications:
**What you will need to succeed**
- A university degree or post-undergraduate college diploma in planning, environmental studies, biology, applied planning, ecology, or a related field
- 3 to 8 years’ experience, preferably in the consulting industry, with an emphasis on linear infrastructure EAs
- Valid Class G Driver’s license

**Experience**:
Ideally, your experience can demonstrate the following:

- Successful delivery of Class EAs for linear infrastructure. Experience with individual EAs would be considered an asset
- In-depth knowledge of relevant municipal, provincial and federal environmental legislation, regulations, policies, guidelines, and regulatory permitting and approval requirements
- Experience in the design and delivery of stakeholder and Indigenous Community engagement programs, including the use of innovative virtual engagement tools
- Experience in business development activities including client development and responding to RFPs
- Environmental management during construction, including developing environmental management plans, on-site monitoring and documentation, is considered an asset

We have a strong supportive and inclusive culture at Dillon and welcome these strengths and personal attributes:

- Highly motivated with a proven ability to take initiative
- Strong report writing, organization and interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Committed to success through personal development and team advancement
- Passionate about innovative approaches to public and stakeholder engagement
- Desire to be a key member of a solution-oriented, multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to work independently

Dillon offers competitive salaries, health benefits, flexible work arrangements and a generous retirement savings plan. Our work week is 37.5 hours.

**Why choose Dillon**

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tan