Senior Environmental Planner

We are currently seeking a Senior Environmental Planner to join our Environmental Planning team. Our team specializes in managing comprehensive environmental approvals from planning through construction, leveraging innovative engagement tools and deep regulatory knowledge to streamline project delivery.  The next generation of environmental planning will not be built by simply repeating what has always been done.

This is a new position and is based at our Calgary, Edmonton or Winnipeg offices. We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.  We are interested in planners from across the profession; not only from one sector or type of assessment. Your background may be in infrastructure, energy, utilities, municipal services, resources, industry, government, environmental approvals or another area of environmental planning. What matters most is the perspective, entrepreneurial mindset, and initiative you can bring.

We are looking for planners with the judgment to deliver complex work, the curiosity to question established approaches and the entrepreneurial drive to turn good ideas into better outcomes for clients, communities and the environment.

The role will be calibrated to your experience. Intermediate planners will have room to take on more complex assignments, increase their client exposure and grow into leadership. Senior planners will have opportunities to lead major work, build client relationships, mentor others and influence the direction of the discipline.

This is not an unstructured role, and you will not be expected to build alone. You will have clear responsibilities, experienced colleagues and an established platform along with genuine room to test ideas, improve how we work and help create new opportunities.

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. Through employee ownership, we return the financial benefit created by our project work to the very people who created that value. Because we are an employee-owned firm, your voice will be an essential part of our shared success.

What you will have the opportunity to do

Deliver excellent work

• Lead, manage or play a key role in Environmental Assessments and impact assessments, environmental planning, permitting and approvals, and environmental compliance assignments for public- and private-sector clients.
• Bring together planning, engineering, environmental science and engagement perspectives to help clients make clear, defensible decisions.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, quality and risk at a level appropriate to your experience.
• Contribute to complex projects that shape infrastructure, communities, resource development and environmental outcomes across a range of sectors.

Build trusted client relationships

• Understand what clients are trying to achieve, not just what is written in the scope, and help translate those needs into practical solutions.
• Contribute to client communications, market intelligence, proposals, interviews and business development activities.
• For senior candidates, help identify and pursue strategic opportunities, strengthen key accounts and shape areas of discipline growth.

Improve the way environmental planning is delivered

• Question established approaches constructively and propose better ways to solve problems, engage communities, manage information and communicate decisions.
• Develop, test or champion new methods, tools and technology-enabled approaches where they improve quality, efficiency, transparency or the client experience.
• Turn project lessons into reusable practices that make the next assignment stronger.
• We empower our teams to automate the routine so they can focus on high-value, creative problem-solving. You will be encouraged to experiment with AI-enabled tools to push the boundaries of traditional design.

Learning & Development

• Collaborate generously across disciplines and offices, sharing ideas and creating space for others to contribute.
• Contribution to the career development of less tenured staff, including technical direction, training recommendations, coaching, and mentoring
• Continue your own development with support from respected leaders in environmental assessment, planning, permitting, engagement and compliance across Canada.
• Contribute to Dillon’s profile through professional associations, committees, publications, presentations or industry conversations.

• A university degree or post-graduate college diploma in planning, environmental studies, biology or a related field.
• Relevant professional experience, typically 5+ years for an intermediate role or 10+ years for a senior role, preferably in consulting or a comparable client, government or industry environment.

• Experience delivering Environmental Assessments, impact assessments, planning studies, permitting and approvals, or related environmental assignments as a project manager, environmental lead or key project team member, at a level appropriate to your experience.
• A strong working knowledge of the legislation, regulations, policies, guidelines, permitting processes and approval requirements relevant to your areas of practice.
• Experience designing or delivering stakeholder, public and Indigenous Community engagement programs, including virtual or technology-enabled engagement approaches.
• Experience with business development, client development and responses to RFPs is expected for senior candidates and considered an asset for intermediate candidates.
• Experience with environmental management during construction, including environmental management plans, monitoring and documentation—is considered an asset.

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our core values:

• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust;
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences. 

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. Our annual share dividends have historically outperformed the market average.
• Dillon’s Overtime Directive
• This Management Directive establishes a firm-wide 40-hour weekly overtime threshold, after which premium pay applies, ensuring consistent and fair compensation across all Canadian offices.
• 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
• Ongoing Learning and Development opportunities
• As a knowledge-based business, we use a composite approach to development, including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.

Health & Safety at Dillon

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.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

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.

Technology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon

Please be advised that Dillon uses AI-assisted tools to support aspects of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports the process, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying, you acknowledge and consent to this use.

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