Principal Consultant, Hydrologist

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to expand our water management services and client base in Canada and serve as a key member of the "core" technical team to drive growth in the areas of environmental impact assessment, permitting, risk assessment, water resources management and site closure.
• Lead the preparation of technical documents in your field of expertise. Depending on the complexity of the work, this can range from hands-on interpretation to delegating work to junior staff and then serving as the senior technical reviewer.
• Contribute to business development in our global impact assessment and planning service area. Identify and develop new opportunities, prepare effective technical proposals, and take an active leadership role in developing new business with new and existing clients.
• Collaborate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams with other ERM subject matter experts to integrate our different types of work and communicate our collective findings to a wide range of audiences.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in civil or environmental engineering or related field.
• Solid grasp of the key regulatory drivers within the mining and energy sector, as well as a high degree of technical competence and broad knowledge of impact assessment best practices.
• Well-developed team building and influencing skills; unquestionable integrity; and the experience, confidence, and stature to effectively address client and business needs and challenges.
• Recognized technical expertise by an established reputation in the marketplace, including positive reputation with key regulators relevant to environmental approvals.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain long-term relationships with clients.
• Experienced people management leader.
• Strong English writing and presentation skills.

Benefits

Additional Information

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Principal Consultant, Hydrologist looking for a leadership role in our Water practice. We work throughout all parts of the mining life cycle : your work will help our clients deliver their initial and expansion-phase environmental assessments, resolve challenges in permitting applications, help refine operational decisions and guide major decisions during the closure planning. You can work from our Boston office, choose to work remotely, or combine in-person and remote work into a hybrid model that best meets your needs. This is a senior leadership role where you will help shape our strategy and share in the accountability for how we grow our business in our region . Why This Role Matters ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, and social consulting services with offices in over 40 countries. We have worked with many of the Global Fortune 500 companies delivering innovative solutions for business and selected government clients helping them understand and manage the sustainability challenges that the world is increasingly facing. Your work will contribute directly to the success of these projects. What Your Impact Is As a Principal Consultant with leadership experience, you will be equipped to provide oversight and technical strength and guidance to our Integrated Water Resources team, tapping into expertise from hydrology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and toxicology, and focusing on integrating these teams to deliver insights and value for our clients through technical analyses and the development of robust mass balance and geochemical models. This is an opportunity to utilize your established technical expertise leading water-related environmental assessments and permitting for large-scale capital projects with a focus on the Mining Sector. You will embrace the challenge of being a main point of contact for our clients for water management related scopes. You will serve as a representative of our company and play a key role building our business and winning new projects. Your big-picture understanding of our business, and ability to build strong client relationships based on trust and mutual benefit will be critical.

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