Senior Environmental Advisor

Overview

We are currently seeking a Senior Environmental Advisor to join our Alberta Environmental Services team. This role is designed for an experienced environmental generalist who thrives as a trusted client advisor, someone capable of looking beyond routine technical execution to articulate clear professional opinions, navigate complex regulatory frameworks, and guide clients through strategic risk assessments.

As a key advisor bridging both the public and private sectors, you will bring a broad understanding of environmental issues, regulatory compliance, permitting pathways, and commercial transaction dynamics. You will play a central role in guiding clients through major project development, regulatory approvals before Alberta bodies (AER, AUC, AEP/EPA), and corporate mergers & acquisitions (M&A) due diligence.

This is a new position and is based at our Calgary or Edmonton office. We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

About Dillon

Dillon Consulting Limited (Dillon) is a proudly Canadian, 100% employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada, we offer a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

At Dillon, we strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation and thrive on interdisciplinary collaboration, empowering our people to challenge conventional thinking and build careers focused on creating a lasting impact in our communities. We are committed to ongoing professional development and celebrate the unique perspectives that each team member brings to the table.

Employee ownership is available to all Dillon team members, and over 60% of our employees own shares in Dillon. Through employee ownership, we return the financial benefit created by our project work to the very people who created that value. Because we are an employee-owned firm, your voice will be an essential part of our shared success.

Responsibilities

In this high-visibility strategic advisory role, you will:

• Strategic Client Advisory & Opinion: Act as a trusted advisor to private sector senior management and public sector decision-makers, synthesizing complex technical data into clear, defensible professional opinions and strategic guidance.
• Alberta Regulatory Strategy & Permitting Navigation: Lead the strategic positioning and navigation of environmental permitting, approvals, and compliance frameworks across key Alberta regulatory bodies, including the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC), and Environment and Protected Areas (AEP/EPA).
• M&A & Transactional Environmental Due Diligence: Direct environmental due diligence programs supporting mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring, asset acquisitions, and real estate transactions. Evaluate environmental liabilities, regulatory compliance histories, contamination risks, and post-transaction operational exposures to inform deal structuring and risk mitigation.
• Cross-Sector Environmental Leadership: Leverage broad generalist expertise across air, water, land, ecology, and waste management to address multi-disciplinary environmental issues spanning energy, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and public infrastructure.
• Public Policy & Regulatory Compliance Counsel: Advise clients on emerging provincial and federal regulatory shifts, environmental policy trends, cumulative impact frameworks, and ESG/sustainability expectations.
• Business Growth & Trusted Relationships: Foster long-term, trusted advisory partnerships with key commercial clients, industry associations, and government agencies, identifying strategic opportunities to expand Dillon's advisory footprint.

Qualifications

We are looking for a well-rounded consultant who combines technical breadth with commercial and regulatory acumen:

• Professional Background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Natural Resource Management, or a related discipline.
• Professional Registration: Professional designation in Alberta (e.g., P.Eng., P.Ag., R.P.Bio., EP, P.Geo., or equivalent).
• Senior Environmental Experience: 12 to 15+ years of broad environmental experience in Western Canada, with a strong emphasis on strategic consulting, client representation, and cross-sector leadership.

Experience

• Regulatory Authority Expertise: Proven track record navigating Alberta's regulatory landscape, with direct experience preparing, reviewing, and leading approval processes governed by the AER, AUC, and AEP/EPA.
• M&A & Transactional Due Diligence: Demonstrated expertise managing Phase I/II ESAs, baseline reviews, liability assessments, and environmental risk evaluations specifically tailored for commercial M&A transactions and corporate due diligence.
• Strategic Advisory Capability: Exceptional ability to formulate, articulate, and defend professional opinions before client executives, boards, public stakeholders, and regulatory agencies.
• Sector Breadth: Balanced working knowledge of both private sector commercial drivers (energy, renewables, industrial, land development) and public sector policy/infrastructure frameworks.

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our core values:

• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust;
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

In addition to a competitive base salary, Dillon offers:

• Flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life
• Employee share purchase plan
  • Dillon is 100% employee owned, and share ownership is open to all employees. Our annual share dividends have historically outperformed the market average.
• Dillon’s Overtime Directive
  • This Management Directive establishes a firm-wide 40-hour weekly overtime threshold, after which premium pay applies, ensuring consistent and fair compensation across all Canadian offices.
• Competitive benefits package, including:
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Generous retirement savings plan with employer matching up to 5.5%
  • Student loan repayment assistance
  • Wellness allowance and enhanced mental health benefits
  • Ample paid vacation
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
  • Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership rates
• Ongoing Learning and Development opportunities
  • As a knowledge-based business, we use a composite approach to development, including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.

Health & Safety at Dillon

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

Dillon is committed to employment equity and an inclusive, diverse workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities. If you require accommodation during the interview process, please let us know.

Technology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon

Please be advised that Dillon uses AI-assisted tools to support aspects of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports the process, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying, you acknowledge and consent to this use.