Senior Project Manager, Climate Strategy and Adaptation

AtkinsRéalis is hiring a Senior Project Manager for Climate Strategy and Adaptation in Kelowna, BC, Canada. The role involves managing climate change risks and adaptation strategies in the minerals and metals industry, ensuring successful project delivery. The candidate will develop tools and methodologies for climate-related assessments and lead a project delivery team. This position requires collaboration with teams worldwide, supporting sustainable practices in mining.
Job Description

Senior Project Manager, Climate Strategy and Adaptation

Are you looking for a company that works on major engineering projects all over the world? Do you want to make a difference by improving the daily lives of communities worldwide? Are you seeking to join an inclusive and diverse team that you can truly count on? You’ve come to the right place!

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Réalis’s Minerals and Metals team in Canada is made up of more than 400 employees who work on large-scale projects to support mining sustainability, pit-to-port opportunities, metallurgical plant engineering, or mine closure and capabilities in the study, design, and construction of mining projects across a wide range of mining and processing methods and commodities. The team combines global-caliber expertise to provide tailored solutions for projects of any size, scope, or complexity.

We believe in working openly and transparently, together, delivering world-class projects. We work collaboratively with teams across the world, from Canada to Brazil in the south to India in the east, delivering exceptional value and innovation to our clients. To support our growth initiatives, we are expanding our team and are looking for innovative, forward-thinking people who enjoy challenges and want to add value to project success, both locally and internationally.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager, Climate Strategy and Adaptation to join our Global Minerals & Metals (M&M) team and to support our growth to align with the demand to supply responsibly sourced critical minerals. With the global demand for critical minerals on the rise, the need for innovative solutions has never been more pressing. The Senior Project Manager, Climate Strategy and Adaptation will ensure the successful delivery of sustainable strategies to support our clients’ transition to a low carbon economy and manage the potential climate change risk promoting adaptation strategies in the minerals and metals industry.

With a scientific and evidence-based approach, the successful candidate will contribute to developing corporate strategies, tools, practices, and processes that incorporate leading approaches to climate action along all the stages of the mining lifecycle.

This opportunity will be to support the M&M – ESG & Sustainability team located in any of the major cities of Canada:
Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto; including Kelowna.

Your role within the team:
• Manage climate change risk, adaptation strategies, decarbonization strategies, and energy transition projects in the minerals and metals industry, from proposal generation to the delivery of quality reports on time and budget.
• Lead the Climate Strategy and Adaptation project delivery team, and communicate clear objectives for the team to understand and achieve project goals in context of the client’s requirements.
• Develop tools, methodologies and procedures for physical and transitional climate-related risk assessment to assist clients’ needs and optimization opportunities for a sustainability strategy and performance.
• Facilitate the climate-related hazard, vulnerability and exposure identification process, and link the identified adaptation opportunities to strategic organizational goals (e.g.; Cap Ex analysis).,
• Develop recommendations for decarbonization strategies and energy efficiency for current operations and mine design in the minerals and metals industry.
• Manage and develop climate-related disclosure reports aligned with main leading frameworks (e.g., TCFD, ISSB, CSRD, SASB, GRI, IFC, MAC-TSM, Copper Mark), enhancing business resiliency and long-term success.
• Promote business development activities with current and potential clients, fostering innovation and emerging technologies, and getting involved in relevant conferences in the minerals and metals industry.

Why choose
Atkins

Réalis
as an employer?

Because we offer:
• The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
• An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
• A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
• A…