Contaminated Sites Project Manager

Job summary

The Project Manager will lead environmental projects, including contaminated site assessment and remediation, while managing scope, schedule, and budget. They will also provide leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and support business development initiatives.

Job details

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: We’re hiring Project Managers in Vancouver, British Columbia to support our Environmental Restoration team at Arcadis. The ideal candidate will have exceptional project management skills and a proven ability to successfully deliver complex projects, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget requirements are met. While technical knowledge is valuable, this role primarily emphasizes leadership, organizational excellence, and the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams and client relationships effectively. As a Project Manager, you will lead environmental projects in contaminated site assessment, remediation, and monitoring, specializing in managing scopes, schedules, budgets, and risks. You’ll provide leadership to project teams, ensure compliance with provincial and federal regulations, and drive client-focused solutions. This is a hybrid role with flexibility to work remotely a few times a week, with travel required for project meetings, site visits, and team collaboration. At Arcadis, we’re committed to supporting work-life balance and career growth, offering mentorship and opportunities for advancement. Role accountabilities: In this role, your primary focus will be on project management excellence. You will manage small, large, and complex environmental projects, including defining scope, developing schedules, controlling budgets, evaluating risks, and implementing mitigation strategies. You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams, provide mentorship to junior and intermediate staff, and foster collaboration and innovation within the group while building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, ensuring project deliverables meet their expectations and align with their goals. * Quality and Compliance: Ensure projects adhere to corporate policies, procedures, and regulatory frameworks, while maintaining high standards of quality assurance and control. * Resource Management: Coordinate technical resources, field programs, and subcontractors, ensuring efficient use of project resources. * Reporting and Communication: Prepare and review project reports, proposals, and work plans, ensuring clear and timely communication with clients and stakeholders. * Business Development Support: Collaborate on business development initiatives, including responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Expressions of Interest (EOIs), and Statements of Qualifications (SOQs). Key Attributes & Requirements The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following: * Project Management Expertise: Proven ability to manage all aspects of project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, risks, and client relations. * Leadership Skills: Experience mentoring and supervising team members, fostering collaboration, and driving high-quality outcomes. * Client-Focused Approach: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to build trust and deliver results for clients across sectors such as oil and gas, mining, power, infrastructure, and government. * Industry Knowledge and Regulatory Awareness: Familiarity with contaminated site projects, environmental risk assessments, and remediation efforts is an asset; working knowledge of provincial and federal environmental compliance guidelines and legislation (e.g., CCME). * Adaptability: Willingness to travel to project sites and meetings as required. Qualifications & Experience: * Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience, Engineering, or a related field. * 7 or more years of relevant experience, with 5 years of project management experience in environmental projects, including contaminated sites, remediation, and monitoring in British Columbia. * Track record of successful delivery of downstream oil and gas projects in British Columbia. * Registered Professional Biologist (RPBio), Professional Chemist (P.Chem.), Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), or Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.). Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. The salary range for this position is $89,600 - $134,400. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role. #LI-TM1 #Resilience-NA #Environment-NA #LI-Hybrid

What you’ll do

The Project Manager will lead environmental projects, including contaminated site assessment and remediation, while managing scope, schedule, and budget. They will also provide leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, ensure regulatory compliance, and support business development initiatives.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and possess at least 7 years of experience, including 5 years of project management in environmental projects. A professional designation such as RPBio, P.Chem., P.Eng., or P.Geo. is required.

Benefits

• Work-life balance
• Career growth
• Mentorship
• Opportunities for advancement

Listed skills

• Budgeting · Preferred
• Mentorship · Preferred
• Regulatory Compliance · Preferred
• Leadership · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• scheduling · Preferred
• Client Relationship Management · Preferred
• Business development · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Project management
• Environmental restoration
• Contaminated site assessment
• Remediation
• Monitoring
• Leadership
• Risk management
• Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Regulatory compliance
• Client relationship management
• Multi-disciplinary team management
• Business development
• Environmental compliance
• Mentorship
• Environmental Risk Assessment
• Site Assessment
• Curiosity
• Regulatory Frameworks
• Project Resources
• Project Delivery
• Adaptability
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Business Development
• Customer Service
• IBM Planning Analytics
• Communication
• Environmental Compliance
• Environmental Science
• Oil and Gas
• Earth Science
• Innovation
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Relationship Building
• Resource Management
• Request For Proposal
• Subcontracting
• Sustainable Design

Job areas

• Environmental & Sustainability
• Engineering
• Management & Leadership
• Consulting
• Energy
• Integrated Project Manager
• Project Manager (General)
• Management and Organization Analysts
• Project Management Specialists

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