Senior Reclamation Remediation Specialist

CCI offers an unparalleled diversity of work, ensuring our employees remain challenged, engaged, and continually developing their skills. We take pride in delivering results for our clients, and we recognize and reward the dedication, teamwork, and innovative thinking that make those results possible.

CCI Inc. has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for thirteen (13) consecutive years, reflecting our strong leadership, culture, and commitment to excellence. If you’re looking to grow your career with a forward‑thinking organization that values its people and the impact of their work, there has never been a better time to join the CCI team.

CCI Core Values

Operate with Integrity

Service With Intention

Commitment, Collaboration, Innovation.

The Opportunity

CCI Inc. is seeking a highly motivated and well-connected Senior Reclamation & Remediation Specialist to support the growth of our Environmental Services practice in British Columbia. The successful candidate will combine technical leadership, project oversight, regulatory expertise, client relationship management, and strategic business development, with particular strength in contaminated sites, regulatory closure, and dormant pipeline programs.

The successful candidate will combine technical leadership, project oversight, regulatory expertise, client relationship management, and strategic business development. Working with clients, regulators, Indigenous communities, landowners, contractors, and multidisciplinary internal teams, this individual will help clients address complex reclamation, remediation, closure, and environmental liability challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Business Development & Client Relationships

• Leverage established British Columbia industry relationships to identify, pursue, and secure reclamation and remediation opportunities.
• Develop trusted relationships with clients, regulators, Indigenous communities, landowners, contractors, and industry partners.
• Lead client engagement, proposals, estimates, scopes, presentations, account development, and pursuit strategy.
• Identify emerging market opportunities and contribute to strategic growth planning.
• Prepare, review, and contribute to proposals, cost estimates, scopes of work, and pursuit strategies.
• Represent CCI at industry conferences, networking events, and stakeholder meetings.
• Build effective relationships with regulators, Indigenous communities, landowners, contractors, and industry partners.

Technical Leadership

• Provide senior technical leadership from project initiation through regulatory closure.
• Lead planning, execution, reporting, and submissions for preliminary site investigations; contaminated site investigations; remediation programs; reclamation assessments; detailed site assessments; applicable closure instrument or Certificate of Restoration; liability management and closure programs; and environmental due diligence.
• Ensure technical work meets applicable regulatory requirements, professional practice obligations, client expectations, and CCI quality standards.
• Support quality assurance, quality control, technical standards, and continuous improvement.
• Review, approve, authenticate, and provide professional sign-off on technical reports and regulatory submissions within the candidate’s authorized scope of practice.
• Provide professional leadership, i.e., CSAP or other professional designation, for contaminated-sites investigations, remediation planning, risk assessment, instruments of compliance, and regulatory closure submissions.
• Maintain quality assurance, quality control, technical standards, and defensible documentation.

Dormant Pipelines & Regulatory Closure

• Lead or support dormant pipeline and site compliance programs under B.C. Reg. 112/2019, including classification, annual work plans and reports, engagement and notification, decommissioning, assessment, remediation, restoration, liability reduction planning, pipeline deactivation timelines, invasive plant compliance records, and evidence retention.
• Coordinate environmental requirements with pipeline deactivation, reactivation, abandonment, integrity management, restoration, applicable permit conditions, and qualified professional inputs.
• Develop portfolio controls that assign owners, track regulatory deadlines, retain evidence, identify risk, and support BCER-facing deliverables.

Project Management

• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, deliverables, risk, and client expectations.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include environmental scientists, agrologists, engineers, geoscientists, biologists, GIS specialists, archaeologists, and regulatory advisors.
• Monitor project performance, utilization, forecasting, and profitability.
• Support contract administration, change management, invoicing, and project reporting.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard of quality.

Regulatory & Strategic Advisory

• Provide senior guidance on British Columbia reclamation and remediation regulations, standards, and industry practices.
• Advise clients on liability management, site closure, regulatory compliance, remediation strategy, and reclamation regulatory certification.
• Prepare and oversee regulatory submissions and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain awareness of evolving regulatory requirements, government policy, and industry trends.
• Support audits, compliance reviews, environmental liability evaluations, and due diligence assessments.

Mentorship & Leadership

• Mentor, coach, and develop junior and intermediate environmental professionals.
• Contribute to staff development, technical capability building, and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of safety, technical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership in the development of procedures, technical standards, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Agrology, Biology, Geology, or a related discipline.
• Professional designation in good standing, such as P.Ag., P.Geo., P.Eng., RPBio, or an equivalent designation recognized in British Columbia.
• Professional designation and scope of practice that permit independent professional sign-off and authentication of applicable technical reports and regulatory submissions in British Columbia.
• Demonstrated experience preparing, reviewing, authenticating, and signing environmental reports, remediation reports, closure deliverables, and regulatory submissions.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive reclamation and remediation experience in British Columbia.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the Energy Resource Activities Act, Dormancy and Shutdown Regulation (B.C. Reg. 112/2019), Pipeline Regulation (B.C. Reg. 281/2010), Environmental Management Act, Contaminated Sites Regulation, applicable BCER manuals and guidance, and relevant professional practice requirements.
• Experience interpreting and applying dormant pipeline requirements, including regulatory status, classification and planning, shutdown activities, deadlines, evidence, engagement, notifications, and BCER-facing deliverables.
• Established British Columbia industry and client contacts, with proven business development, proposal, and client relationship experience.
• Excellent communication, technical writing, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Valid Class 5 Driver’s Licence and willingness to travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• 15 or more years of British Columbia reclamation and remediation consulting experience.
• Active Contaminated Sites Approved Professional (CSAP) designation.
• Candidates must maintain their CSAP designation in good standing and demonstrate experience applying the Contaminated Sites Regulation, preparing and reviewing contaminated-sites investigations, remediation plans, risk assessments, instruments of compliance, and regulatory closure submissions in British Columbia.
• Existing client relationships in upstream oil and gas, midstream, mining, industrial, utilities, municipal, infrastructure, or government sectors.
• Experience delivering BCER-regulated dormant pipeline, dormant site, orphan site, or liability reduction work programs.
• Practical northern British Columbia experience, including remote logistics, seasonal constraints, landowner and Indigenous engagement, and multidisciplinary closure execution.
• PMP certification and experience with due diligence, acquisitions, divestitures, or asset retirement obligations.

Compensation & Benefits

CCI offers a competitive total rewards package designed to recognize technical expertise, leadership, client service, project delivery, and business development contribution.

Compensation

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience, professional qualifications, industry relationships, and business development capabilities.
• Eligibility to participate in CCI’s Employee Bonus and Profit-Sharing Program, subject to the terms of the program and company discretion.
• Reimbursement of reasonable, approved business-related expenses in accordance with CCI policies and procedures.

Group Benefits

• Eligibility to apply for participation in CCI’s group benefit plans upon hire, subject to plan terms and conditions.
• Extended health and dental benefits.
• Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage.
• Health and Wellness Spending Account.

Retirement, Vacation & Development

• Eligibility for CCI’s RRSP Program after 12 months of successful employment, subject to program terms.
• Paid vacation in accordance with the employment agreement and CCI vacation policies.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement support on a pre-approved, course-by-course basis in accordance with company policy.
• Hybrid work arrangements and travel requirements appropriate to the position and project needs.

Benefit programs may be amended from time to time in accordance with CCI policy and applicable plan terms.

What Success Looks Like

✓ Strengthen and expand priority client relationships.

✓ Generate qualified reclamation and remediation opportunities.

✓ Lead successful delivery of complex contaminated sites, dormant pipeline, reclamation, remediation, and closure programs.

✓ Provide CSAP and/or other professional sign-off on applicable reports and submissions within authorized scope.

✓ Mentor and develop technical staff.

✓ Contribute to sustainable revenue growth and market expansion.

✓ Establish trusted-advisor relationships with clients and internal teams.

✓ Build auditable regulatory program controls.

Engineering & Environmental Services | CCI Inc. (ccisolutions.ca)

This posting will remain open until filled.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. We thank all applicants for their interest.