Senior Project Manager, Contaminated Sites

Job Description

Burnaby, British Columbia | Environmental Services

At EXP, we provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. Our engineers, scientists, architects, designers, and technical specialists work together to solve complex challenges for our clients and communities. As an employee-owned company, we offer the scope and resources of a global network while maintaining the entrepreneurial culture, local accountability, and team connection that help people do their best work.

Burnaby, British Columbia | Environmental Services

At EXP, we provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. Our engineers, scientists, architects, designers, and technical specialists work together to solve complex challenges for our clients and communities. As an employee-owned company, we offer the scope and resources of a global network while maintaining the entrepreneurial culture, local accountability, and team connection that help people do their best work.

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Be our next Senior Project Manager, Contaminated Sites in Burnaby!

Help grow EXP’s contaminated sites practice in British Columbia. Based in our Burnaby office, this senior role is ideal for an environmental consulting professional who can lead complex contaminated sites projects, build trusted client relationships, mentor staff, and support business growth. As part of EXP’s Environmental team, you will play a key role in delivering and expanding contaminated sites, site investigation, remediation, and regulatory services across British Columbia and Western Canada.

Working alongside a multidisciplinary team of environmental professionals, engineers, geoscientists, risk assessors, and technical specialists, you will provide practical, defensible, and client-focused solutions while applying strong BC regulatory expertise, sound commercial judgment, technical excellence, and collaborative leadership.

• Lead and manage a portfolio of contaminated sites projects, including Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, Stage 1 and Stage 2 Preliminary Site Investigations, Detailed Site Investigations, remediation planning, remediation implementation, monitoring, and closure reporting.
• Develop project scopes, work plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, health and safety plans, and quality management approaches to support successful delivery.
• Serve as the primary client contact on select projects, providing clear communication, strategic advice, and timely resolution of technical, regulatory, commercial, and stakeholder issues.
• Prepare and review proposals, cost estimates, technical reports, remedial options analyses, remediation plans, and regulatory submissions.
• Manage provincial and federal contaminated sites projects and support applications or submissions to the BC Ministry of Environment and Parks, including regulatory instruments such as Certificates of Compliance, Approvals in Principle, and Determinations.
• Coordinate and review field programs, including intrusive investigations, soil, groundwater, vapour, and surface water sampling, remediation fieldwork, subcontractor management, and QA/QC review of analytical data.
• Work collaboratively with risk assessment, hydrogeology, geotechnical, civil, building sciences, and other EXP teams to provide integrated solutions for complex sites.
• Monitor project performance, including scope, schedule, budget, work-in-progress, invoicing, change management, margin, and client satisfaction.
• Mentor junior and intermediate environmental professionals through technical guidance, project delivery coaching, report review, and career development support.
• Support business development by identifying opportunities, strengthening existing client relationships, developing win strategies, and contributing to strategic growth of EXP’s Environmental practice in Western Canada.
• Champion a strong health, safety, quality, and ethics culture on all projects.

• University degree in engineering,…