Discipline Lead - Indigenous Rights and Consultation in Kent

We are currently seeking a Discipline Lead to join our Indigenous Rights and Consultation team. This is an existing position and can be based at any one of our North York, Downtown Toronto, Oakville, Hamilton, Guelph, London, Chatham, Windsor, Kingston or Ottawa offices. We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

About Dillon: Dillon Consulting Limited (Dillon) is a proudly Canadian, 100% employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada, we offer a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities. At Dillon, we strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation and thrive on interdisciplinary collaboration, empowering our people to challenge conventional thinking and build careers focused on creating a lasting impact in our communities. We are committed to ongoing professional development and celebrate the unique perspectives that each team member brings to the table. Employee ownership is available to all Dillon team members, and over 60% of our employees own shares in Dillon.

As Discipline Lead, you will be responsible for shaping the future of the Indigenous Rights and Consultation discipline at Dillon. You will set the direction for technical excellence, quality, innovation and efficient service delivery, while building the people and capabilities required to deliver exceptional results for our clients. This role is about more than maintaining standards. You will have the opportunity and accountability to strengthen the discipline, build high-performing teams, establish leading practices and continually improve how we deliver our work.

Responsibilities

Maintain deep technical expertise and stay current with industry trends and best practices. As Discipline Lead, you will set the direction for technical excellence across the discipline, ensuring Dillon maintains leading technical capability and continuously raises the standard for quality and service delivery. Develop and implement strategies to enhance technical skills and knowledge within the discipline. This includes identifying capability gaps and building the technical depth needed to support our clients and most important projects. Identify and drive opportunities to integrate technology to improve internal processes, enhance efficiency and effectiveness, and reduce costs. Deliver one "called shot" on incremental innovation annually, with a business case and success metrics. Encourage and support the development and implementation of new technologies and solutions within the discipline, and showcase success stories related to efficiency improvements in service delivery. Champion proven innovations across the discipline so successful approaches become repeatable best practices.

Lead and motivate a team of technical professionals, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment and a culture of continuous improvement. You will be accountable for building and maintaining a high-performing discipline, not simply managing the team that exists today. Build the team and capabilities needed for the future by identifying resource and skill needs, recruiting strong talent, and positioning the right people to support our most important projects and clients. Foster a culture of innovation within the discipline, promoting the development and implementation of new technologies and solutions that meet the needs of our clients. Support the growth and development of a high-performing team of Team Managers. Foster a collaborative work environment, promoting knowledge sharing and teamwork among team members and across disciplines, ensuring effective communication and coordination. Build and maintain strong relationships with Project Managers and Business Units. Partner with Project Managers and Business Units to continually improve how projects are structured, staffed and delivered, improving quality, efficiency, profitability and the overall client experience. Maintain strong industry presence and recognition. Actively position the discipline for industry recognition by advancing leading practices, sharing success stories and strengthening Dillon's reputation in the market.

Proactively identify health & safety risks related to service delivery and ensure they are managed. Meet or exceed the financial targets set for the discipline, while ensuring efficient, high-quality service delivery and client satisfaction. Take ownership of the discipline's overall performance, balancing exceptional client service, technical quality, efficient delivery, sustainable growth and profitability. Lead the development and implementation of operational standards, best practices, and quality control processes to mitigate risk and enhance efficiency. Set new benchmarks for how work is delivered and drive consistent adoption of leading practices across teams and projects. Identify and evaluate new technologies relevant to the discipline, promoting their adoption and integration to improve service delivery and internal operations. Identify and mitigate potential risks that could impact service delivery. Maintain high technical quality standards. Ensure quality is embedded in how teams work, with clear expectations, accountability and continuous improvement. Actively solicit and action client and PM feedback to improve service delivery and client satisfaction. Translate feedback into tangible improvements in how work is scoped, staffed and delivered. Make sound business decisions regarding organic growth opportunities. This includes making deliberate decisions about when and where to invest in people and capability to support sustainable growth.

Qualifications

We highly value Discipline Leads who:

• Demonstrate Technical Excellence: Possess deep technical expertise and stay current with industry trends. Set the direction for technical excellence and continually raise the bar for quality, consistency and leading practice within the discipline.
• Drive Innovation: Proactively identify and implement new technologies and solutions to improve efficiency and enhance effectiveness in our service delivery. Turn successful ideas into repeatable ways of working that improve how Dillon delivers for clients.
• Champion People Development: Foster the growth and development of team members. Build strong teams by recruiting, mentoring and developing people with the capabilities needed for the future.
• Build Strong Relationships: Effectively collaborate with stakeholders and build strong client relationships. Partner effectively with Project Managers, Business Units and clients to improve delivery and the overall client experience.
• Deliver Results: Consistently achieve performance targets and contribute to the practice's success. Take ownership of discipline performance and balance quality, client outcomes, people development and profitability.

Your annual review with your supervisor will provide you with a holistic assessment of your performance in the Discipline Lead role including:

• Quantitative Metrics: Your performance will be evaluated against the following key indicators: gross labour revenue, gross margin, labour multiplier, discipline MxU, 90 day backlog conversion, growth of discipline, sales pipeline growth.
• Qualitative Assessment: We'll assess your overall performance as a Discipline Lead, taking into account your leadership effectiveness, proactiveness in process improvement, maintaining high discipline technical quality, and overall contribution to the practice.
• Feedback from Others: We may gather feedback from your direct reports, Practice Leads, Project Managers, Business Units, clients, and other relevant stakeholders to gain a broader perspective on your performance and impact.

This discipline provides advisory services to support our clients in meeting the delegated procedural aspects of the Duty to Consult, Indigenous Engagement and Relations to support reconciliation initiatives, weaving Indigenous Knowledge with western science to support environmental stewardship, working with Indigenous communities to support jurisdiction, title and rights-based assertions, and assessing impacts to Aboriginal and/or Treaty Rights in provincial and federal regulatory processes.

Compensation: $140,000 - $170,000. Dillon is including the salary range that we in good faith believe may offer for this position. It will be dependent on the successful applicant’s education, experience, and skills, in addition to internal equity and geographic region. Dillon reserves the right to pay outside of the posted range, contingent on factors unrelated to an applicant’s gender or other status protected by provincial and/or federal law.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Dillon offers:

• Flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
• Employee share purchase plan: Dillon is 100% employee-owned, and share ownership is open to all employees.
• Competitive benefits package, including comprehensive health benefits, generous retirement savings plan with employer matching up to 5.5%, student loan repayment assistance, wellness allowance and enhanced mental health benefits, ample paid vacation, Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP), Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership rates.
• Early Career Development (ECD) program designed for technical professionals with less than three years of consulting experience.

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Dillon is committed to employment equity and an inclusive, diverse workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.