Environmental Project Director

The Opportunity: 

The Remediation Program Management team is your opportunity to apply your skills and join a diverse and growing team within WSP supporting our key clients.  WSP is growing and has an opportunity for a skilled Project Director who are ready to build a career, say yes to new opportunities, and bring and share new ideas in solving the biggest environmental remediation challenges for our biggest clients. Formulate your career development plan and interact with and find mentors to bond with over the technical, client and project delivery activities that interest you. Join our team and support our passion for environmental remediation, characterization and reclamation, saving the planet one site at a time. 

  Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of Inclusion and Belonging
• Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
• Our Hybrid Work Policy - a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future. 

#WeAreWSP

What you can expect to do here: 

• Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying, coaching and mentoring others with your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
• As a part of our team, we each bring our lived experiences in hand, where we have the power to design a place where people, friends, families and neighbours can thrive. 
• Maintain a work-life balance, logging in remotely or attending the office in a hybrid work solution of 3 days a week in the office.
• Clearly identify and define project specific strategies, advising the project team of the project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to the team and clients.
• Be a mentor to others within WSP, sharing your experiences and knowledge.
• Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, reviewing and enhancing project health and safety plans.
• Participate and be a member of a 10-20 person client-specific delivery team, while at the same time supporting with your experience and expertise to the entire RPM group.
• Have a really complex technical issue?  Engage with a Practice Area Network (PAN) who may have experienced the same issue in Australia, Malaysia, or even exotic locations like Saskatoon.
• Lead and work on some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western, Eastern and Northern Canada

What you'll bring to WSP:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences
• Professional designation
• 15+ years experience in the environmental industry
• Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industryStops and takes time out of your busy day to help coworkers, especially new team members, understand assignments and help mentor them in their career path
• A passion for coaching and mentoring co-workers, helping them to develop the skills you've mastered in environmental consulting
• Miss going to the field and getting to see what's really going on in the ground
• Likes to rub soil on their teeth to texture it (but doesn't because it might be contaminated)
• Can't get enough learning