Principal Consultant, Hydrologist

About the role

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Principal Consultant, Hydrologist looking for a leadership role in our Water practice. We work throughout all parts of the mining life cycle: your work will help our clients deliver their initial and expansion-phase environmental assessments, resolve challenges in permitting applications, help refine operational decisions and guide major decisions during the closure planning. You can work from our Boston office, choose to work remotely, or combine in-person and remote work into a hybrid model that best meets your needs.

What Your Impact Is

As a Principal Consultant with leadership experience, you will be equipped to provide oversight and technical strength and guidance to our Integrated Water Resources team, tapping into expertise from hydrology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and toxicology, and focusing on integrating these teams to deliver insights and value for our clients through technical analyses and the development of robust mass balance and geochemical models. This is an opportunity to utilize your established technical expertise leading water-related environmental assessments and permitting for large-scale capital projects with a focus on the Mining Sector. You will embrace the challenge of being a main point of contact for our clients for water management related scopes. You will serve as a representative of our company and play a key role building our business and winning new projects. Your big-picture understanding of our business, and ability to build strong client relationships based on trust and mutual benefit will be critical.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to expand our water management services and client base in Canada and serve as a key member of the “core” technical team to drive growth in the areas of environmental impact assessment, permitting, risk assessment, water resources management and site closure.
• Lead the preparation of technical documents in your field of expertise. Depending on the complexity of the work, this can range from hands-on interpretation to delegating work to junior staff and then serving as the senior technical reviewer.
• Contribute to business development in our global impact assessment and planning service area. Identify and develop new opportunities, prepare effective technical proposals, and take an active leadership role in developing new business with new and existing clients.
• Capitalize on existing ERM client relationships to expand ERM’s profile and market share through excellence in technical delivery and business development.
• You will embrace the challenge of being a main point of contact for our clients and help deepen relationships across multiple technical disciplines and service lines.
• Collaborate effectively in multi-disciplinary teams with other ERM subject matter experts to integrate our different types of work and communicate our collective findings to a wide range of audiences.

Pay & Benefits

The anticipated annual base pay for this role is $110,190–$160,905 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range.

This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.