Risk Assessment Discipline Lead Job Burnaby area,BC Canada,Engineering

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Job Description
AECOM is seeking a Risk Assessment Discipline Lead to join our Canada Remediation team. This leadership role is responsible for driving technical excellence, innovation, and consistency in human health and ecological risk assessment practices across projects in Canada.

You will serve as a subject matter expert, mentor junior and senior staff, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, defensible risk assessments that support site remediation and regulatory compliance.

Job Description
AECOM is seeking a Risk Assessment Discipline Lead to join our Canada Remediation team. This leadership role is responsible for driving technical excellence, innovation, and consistency in human health and ecological risk assessment practices across projects in Canada.

Team Leadership and Growth

Build and mentor a high-performing team of technical staff across multiple Canada offices.
Provide coaching, training, and leadership for junior, mid-level and senior risk assessors.
Foster cross-functional teamwork, ensuring alignment between toxicologists, ecologists, biologists, project managers, remediation engineers, and other stakeholders.
Drive professional development within team.
Promote collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence across projects.
Provide strategic proposals and budgets in support of risk assessment tasks for new work opportunities.
Drive professional development within team.

Project Delivery & Management

Lead full lifecycle project delivery—from preliminary screening to complete risk assessment.
Manage budgets, schedules, resources, and client communications.
Ensure quality and compliance with regulatory and environmental standards.
Translate complex risk findings into clear, actionable communication for regulators, clients, and internal stakeholders.
Execution and reporting of Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments for a variety of client types for risk-based management of contaminated sites across Canada.
Execution and reporting of Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments for new Canadian projects subject to environment impact assessment legislation, and support as expert witness in the approval process.
Work with AECOM project managers and Canadian Risk Assessment Team to develop site-specific risk management strategies that will include the development of both technical approach and estimating costs.
Regularly communicate with regulators, clients, and other AECOM technical staff/project managers.

Technical Expertise

Have demonstrated knowledge and competencies in risk assessment as it relates to human health including First Nations, ecological health, air, water, groundwater, soil, soil vapour, sediment, porewater, foodchains, and contaminant fate and transport, statistics, and sampling design.
Maintain a working knowledge of risk-based regulations both federally and for one or more of the following Atlantic Canada, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, BC, Nunavut or Canadian Territories and conduct presentations on regulatory changes to other technical teams on an as-needed basis.
Apply regulatory risk assessment guidance across Canada (human health and ecological), including constructing conceptual site models and assessing exposure pathways.
For ecological assessments, design and interpret toxicity and bioaccumulation studies, determine media-specific screening criteria, etc.
For human health, evaluate exposure scenarios, dose-response and hazard characterization, and integrate emerging contaminants into risk assessments.
Strong understanding of toxicological foundations of risk assessment.

Business Development

Engage with clients to cultivate relationships and win new work.
Lead and support proposal development and client presentations, contributing technical insight to secure new work and expanding…