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Position Overview

As Kiewit continues to work on exciting projects across Canada, our Environmental team anticipates growth for the coming months. If you are an environmental professional thinking about a change, we invite you to expand your horizons and consider a career with Kiewit as an Environmental Manager. If your experience and skills match the description below, we would appreciate hearing from you.

Our Environmental Coordinators lead and oversee the environmental management practices of a construction project or of the district. This is an exciting role that not only ensures compliance with legal and contractual environmental requirements but also contributes to Kiewit’s enduring dedication to corporate social responsibility.

Our mission is to make a difference and we offer opportunities for you to make one through our construction operations. Whether we’re boring tunnels through mountains, turning rivers into energy or building bridges that connect communities, we depend on our passionate, skilled, and safety obsessed construction professionals to get it done right. You bring your big ideas, commitment to top quality, and an unwavering work ethic.

In return, we offer huge career and travel opportunities and the satisfaction of building the next big thing from the ground up. There’s a reason Kiewit attracts the best: we offer fast-paced excitement and fulfillment you won’t find elsewhere.

Eastern Canada District’s projects include highways, bridges, mass transit, mine site development & open pit operations, hydroelectric powerhouses, wind-power plants, dams & industrial. We serve the construction and mining industries and operate in Eastern Canada.

This position is based in Toronto, Ontario.

• Lead the environmental compliance for a project
• Identify, assess and reduce environmental risks to the company.
• Develop and update environmental plans.
• Perform and oversee field inspections and monitoring (water, air, noise, vibration, soils).
• Identify wetland and sensitive environmental areas for protection in advance of construction activities.
• Monitor, forecast and communicate environmental costs at the project level.
• Develop and conduct environmental protection and awareness training to staff at all levels.
• Function as a principal technical advisor and coordinator for environmental issues.
• Coordinate with relevant crews on their work locations, material needs, quantities and invoices.
• Interpret and apply environmental specifications and drawings avoiding and minimizing adverse effects to the natural environment and local communities.
• Identify, document, report and develop corrective actions for environmental incidents.
• Participate in project audits (both internal and external).
• Prepare project and Kiewit required reports and communication of environmental risks to project management.
• Liaise with environmental agencies and attend field visits with client and regulatory agencies.
• Liaise with the clients; providing them design information, schedule details, quantities etc. ensuring they are aware of any unanticipated discoveries, critical permitting and compliance issues.
• Review requirements and prepare proposals and estimates for new contracts.

• Ability to travel and relocate as needed.
• Undergraduate degree in an environmental science or engineering field, or related.
• 10-15 years' experience managing design and construction environmental compliance for large construction projects.
• Qualified Environmental Professional designation is preferred.
• Experience coordinating a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience with specialist disciplines, plans, and permitting
• Knowledge of soil and water contaminants
• Knowledge of and experience with Ontario’s Transit Project Assessment Process, GO Transit Class EA Document, and Environmental Assessment Act (Ontario)
• Knowledge of and experience with relevant federal and Ontario environmental policies, procedures and legislation
• Experience liaising with other specialty consultants, contractors and governmental authorities
• Experience with linear infrastructure projects in Southern Ontario, including experience in environmental compliance duties…