Environmental Permitting Manager – BC

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We are seeking an Environmental Permitting Manager to join the Vancouver team.

Role description:

This key role will support major infrastructure and industrial projects by ensuring all necessary environmental permits and assessments are obtained efficiently and effectively. The successful candidate will manage a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with various stakeholders to navigate complex regulatory landscapes.

This role sits within the Global Resilience Business Area. Working to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

As an Environmental Permitting Manager, your role accountabilities will include:

• The preparation and submission of environmental and regulatory plans, and environmental permit applications from federal and provincial agencies.
• Impact Assessments and assisting private and government clients in obtaining Environmental Assessment Certificates
• Compliance with environmental assessment (EAC) and permit conditions through effective tracking, reporting, and sign-off processes
• Overseeing permitting work that involves multiple disciplines including freshwater and marine aquatic habitats, bird, mammals and other wildlife habitats, air quality, noise, vibration, and archaeology.
• Implementing marine and freshwater aquatic baseline and monitoring programs to support permit applications and verify compliance requirements.
• Fish habitat restoration, enhancement, and creation plans, designs, and reports, including offsetting plans.
• Fisheries research, fish habitat restoration, and offsetting programs planning and implementation.
• Implement heritage requirements related to construction projects with archaeologists.
• Strategic regulatory and environmental advice to clients related to project design, impact mitigation, and obtaining environmental approvals.
• Good working relationships with EAO, DFO, FLNRO, other government agencies, Indigenous nations, and stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience:

• The successful candidate will have a proven track record in environmental permitting processes within British Columbia.
• Have proven experience in interpreting and implementing provincial and federal environmental regulatory requirements.

Other requirements include:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in biology, environmental science, or environmental resource management.
• Professional designation or Qualified Professional status
• 12 to 15 years of experience, primarily in British Columbia, with major infrastructure and industrial projects
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects are considered essential for this role.
• A proven track record of managing clients, contractors, and regulators as it related to permitting is needed, with strong familiarity of EAO, DFO, FLNRO, and other provincial agencies.

Fuze HR Solutions is committed to building a diverse, accessible, and equitable workforce. Our approach is twofold. Both internal, where we focus on creating a diverse and inclusive environment for our employees, and external, where we source and recruit from the most diverse candidate pools. Our teams are educated on current best practices at attracting, retaining, and working with the most talented and diverse candidates.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to accommodating every candidate and encourage those who identify as a member of a visible minority group, or a person with a disability and requiring specific accommodations, to apply.

For all questions, comments and feedback on our diversity and inclusion programs and policies or to request information relating to accommodation measures, please contact your local Fuze HR Solutions branch.

We look forward to working with you

• Job ID / No. du Poste: 37355
• Open Positions / Postes Ouverts: 1