Practice Lead, Natural Sciences & Forestry

Technical leadership of PRI's combined Natural Sciences & Forestry practice

Location:

Toronto, ON

Full-time

• Senior leadership

PRI is seeking an experienced Practice Lead to provide technical leadership for our combined Natural Sciences & Forestry practice. This is a senior leadership role for a seasoned natural-resource professional, from either a biological sciences or a professional forestry background, who is energized by raising the technical bar, mentoring practitioners across disciplines, and building a practice known for the quality, rigour, and integrity of its work.

As Practice Lead, Natural Sciences & Forestry, you will own the technical excellence, quality, and capability of two closely related natural-resource science disciplines: our biology, ecology, and environmental sciences work, and our professional forestry work. These disciplines share clients, field programs, and projects, and bringing them together under one practice lets the firm serve natural-resource and land clients seamlessly. You will be a senior technical authority for the practice, the mentor who develops emerging practitioners into confident registered professionals, and the standard-bearer who ensures every deliverable reflects sound science and stands up to regulatory and professional scrutiny.

You will work in close partnership with our commercial leaders, who own client relationships and business growth, so that you can focus your energy where it matters most: the quality of the work and the strength of the team.

PRI's Natural Sciences & Forestry practice partners with First Nations and Indigenous tenure holders, provincial and federal agencies, licensees, developers, utilities, municipalities, and industrial clients across British Columbia and beyond. On the natural sciences side, the practice delivers biology and ecology, habitat and species assessments, aquatic and terrestrial studies, vegetation and wildlife work, and environmental field programs. On the forestry side, it delivers forest management planning, silviculture prescriptions and surveys, timber development and cruising, forest health, and wildfire and fuel management.

Together they form an integrated natural-resource science capability.

PRI operates through a matrix of technical practices and commercial sectors. Practice Leads own the technical axis: technical excellence, quality management, discipline capability, staffing, and people development. Commercial sector leaders own client relationships, pursuits, and business growth. This structure means our Practice Leads can concentrate on what drew them to the profession in the first place, excellent work and strong teams, while being genuinely supported on the commercial side.

As Practice Lead, you'll be a senior technical resource on major pursuits and client relationships, but you won't carry sales targets or sole commercial accountability.

Technical leadership and quality

Serve as a senior technical authority for the Natural Sciences & Forestry practice, providing expert oversight on complex projects, professional submissions, and technically challenging assignments across both disciplines.

Provide, and ensure through senior discipline leads, rigorous technical review and professional sign-off across natural sciences deliverables (habitat and species assessments, ecological studies, monitoring programs) and forestry deliverables (forest management plans, silviculture prescriptions, timber development, forest health and wildfire assessments).

Ensure all deliverables meet PRI's quality standards, professional practice requirements, and applicable provincial and federal regulatory frameworks.

Own and continuously improve the practice's…