Vice President, Geotechnical

Vice President, Geotechnical OUR PURPOSE Be part of the Future of Environmental Solutions.

At Montrose Environmental we help protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that feeds us. Our teammates collaborate across services, disciplines, and geographies to solve environmental challenges together – motivated to do better for our clients, each other, and the communities where we live and work. We deliver responsive, locally connected, and scalable solutions to help our clients achieve their ambitious goals for a more sustainable and resilient future.

Montrose is a leading environmental solutions company focused on supporting commercial and government organizations as they deal with the challenges of today and prepare for what’s coming tomorrow. In Canada, we are one of the leading providers of environmental consulting and engineering services and part of a global network of teammates across 100+ locations around the world.

Our team is made up of diverse people working collaboratively towards common goals. We value the contributions and perspectives of all employees and are committed to equity and diversity initiatives to create a feeling of belonging for all of our people. When we are inclusive and diverse in a way that reflects the broader world we serve, we are able to draw from a wider community of excellence within the regions we operate.

As the Vice President of the Geotechnical Service Line, you will provide leadership, expertise and an entrepreneurial mindset to establish and sustain an operational geotechnical service line. The geotechnical practice will be an organic growth initiative centered around servicing long-standing clients in the Energy/Oil & Gas, Infrastructure and Mining sectors. Responsibilities include organically building the new geotechnical service line by establishing a reliable team with client engagement, business development, managing and delivering diverse projects for new and existing clients.

Emphasis of the geotechnical practice will include geohazard identification, field reconnaissance, managing subsurface investigation programs, engineering design, construction support, and geohazard monitoring and geotechnical instrumentation.

The successful applicant will be involved in a broad range of responsibilities, including:

• Develop and set the strategic path to establish a geotechnical practice

• Position Montrose as the technical leader in the geotechnical industry by inspiring thought leadership, with a focus on technical quality, and innovation

• Provide leadership and direction for recruiting and organically setting up a geotechnical practice

• Foster engagement, ensure ongoing communication, and develop talent across the geotechnical business

• Drive a culture of business acumen that includes direction and planning to deliver budgeted business performance

• Communicate priorities and align resources to drive operational performance to achieve organizational objectives

• Partner closely with the Canadian Sales Team to accelerate organic growth through a strong client portfolio and strategic client selection, including segmentation by market

• Deliver operational excellence through consistent project delivery, quality and strong resource management practices

• Foster a high-performance culture through highly visible leadership that embraces continuous improvement, is client focused, conducts business in the highest ethical manner and promotes inclusive behavior designed to enable each member of the team the ability to achieve personal and professional satisfaction

• Engage with an established client base to expand our geotechnical service offering beyond our core environmental service line

• Operate as and build a team of seller-doer’s, collaborating across service lines to help develop and support geotechnical opportunities

• Apply high-level geotechnical engineering techniques and processes to establish working practices involving engineering work including concept development, preliminary design, final design, procurement, construction, and operation

• Perform professional geotechnical engineering…