Mine Water Management Technical Lead in Whitby

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GHD's Ontario Integrated Water Management Group is looking for a Mine Water Management Technical Lead to work from one of our Canadian offices. GHD is seeking a dedicated leader experienced with client service, project/program management, and strategic planning experience. We are looking to leverage our leading corporate and regional experience in IWM and Mining to expand our Mining team in Canada. As a Mine Water Management Technical Lead, you will combine your deep knowledge of the water industry with strategy development skills and a passion for problem solving, to help our teams and clients develop sustainable, livable and climate resilient water solutions.

Technical desired areas of expertise include:

• Water supply and drought
• Water resources
• Surface water infrastructure
• Hydraulics and hydrology
• Storm water and flood management
• Watershed planning and green infrastructure

The successful candidate will have strong leadership, collaboration, business development, project/program management, and technical engineering skills.

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Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Needs Assessment: Uncover emerging issues or needs, identifying potential causes, barriers, and key stakeholders, as well as related issues.
• Improvement/Innovation: Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organization's change management program.
• Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units.
• Engineering Solutions Design: Design engineering solutions and the associated validation process to enable the realization of a design brief.
• Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information, draft engineering standards and specifications, and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards.
• Knowledge Management: Develop policies and processes, create best practices, set up case studies, and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Technical Developments Recommendation: Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments.
• Professional Supervision: Lead and oversee the provision of professional supervision.
• Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective.
• Product and Solution Development: Analyze and evaluate the feasibility and relevance of proposed complex products and services.
• Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships.

What you bring to the team:

• General Experience: Wide and deep experience providing expert competence.
• Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources.
• Bachelor Degree in Civil or Environmental Engineering; Master’s degree or PhD would be considered an asset.
• Licensed Professional Civil Engineer in Ontario; would be considered an asset to also be licensed in Nova Scotia, Quebec or British Columbia.
• Minimum 15+ years’ experience working in the civil / public works arena with municipal, provincial, and Federal clients.
• A seller-doer mindset and commitment to serve our clients.
• Excellent analytical skills, and the ability to take a holistic view of a problem.
• Comfortable presenting in front of Executive and Technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong planning and strategy development skills.
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision to tight deadlines.
• Proven experience leading and managing teams.

Salary and benefits: The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $120,000. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for GHD locations in its major city centres. Ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At GHD, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation.

As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.