Waste Management Lead Engineer - Ontario

Our Ontario Region is seeking a Waste Management Lead Engineer to join our North American waste management team of 120 professionals providing traditional and emerging services with our waste and energy clients.

This position is a phenomenal opportunity to be part of an established practice with an exciting future ahead. We are seeking a technically strong Lead Waste Engineerwho wants to take an active role in growing our North American team to leverage GHDs significant experience in new and innovative technologies.

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

Responsibilities:

• Feasibility Studies: Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes products or business unit structure.
• Waste Management: Manage specific segments of waste management involving waste reduction programs waste segregation compliance storage transport and disposal.
• Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Establishing and maintain long-lasting client relationships with municipal and private clients and prospects
• Mentoring: Providing mentorship to intermediate and junior technical staff across North America
• Undertaking liaison activities with regulators
• 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 organizations change management program. Involves working with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Culture of Innovation: Drive a culture of innovation by creating multistakeholder solutions that boost creativity innovation and collaboration across business units such as idea generation platforms jam sessions and hackathons.
• Engineering Solutions Design: Leading waste and energy solutions projects for municipal and private clients requiring permitting detailed design construction management and inspection operations support and other studies
• Engineering Standards Specification: Analyze information draft engineering standards and specifications and evaluate the effectiveness of those standards within own engineering discipline to ensure work of the required quality is delivered and to inform engineering work in the organization and/or of its suppliers contractors and consultants.
• Knowledge Management: Develop policies and processes create best practices set up case studies and deliver internal knowledge-sharing sessions to capture and share knowledge among colleagues on project/program outcomes and innovative practices in a particular area of expertise and to support the practice.
• Health Safety and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health safety and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organizations HSE policies procedures and mandatory instructions.
• Technical Developments Recommendation: Leading technical approach development for new project proposals
• Professional Supervision: Completing peer reviews of designs completed by other team leadership in the growth and direction of the North American Team

Education:

• Engineer with a . in Ontario accreditation in other jurisdictions is an asset

Experience:

• 15 years of experience in the solid waste industry
• Minimum of 10 years experience in a consulting role
• Valid Ontario driverslicense with driving record in good standing
• Willingness and ability for occasional project travel and oversight of field work by team
• Proficiency in MS Office Word Excel Project PowerPoint
• Working understanding of Autodesk AutoCAD or Civil 3D an asset
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability to work in a highly-skilled and diversified project team
• Experience in landfill and landfill gas transfer station and waste facility design. Experience with organic waste processing waste processing technologies and energy projects is considered an asset.

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.

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