Waste Management Engineer-In-Training

Opportunity

Technical work and fieldwork

• Support solid waste project planning, design, and coordination, including landfill design, waste management planning, and facility evaluation, design, and operations.
• Contribute to technical review and preliminary and detailed design for landfills, transfer stations, compost facilities, landfill gas and leachate management, and construction administration.
• Participate in field investigations, site inspections, construction observation, surveying, and data collection as required.
• Prepare technical reports, assessments, memorandums, drawings, specifications, approval and permitting applications, and public-facing documents.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary project teams and support work across other engineering and environmental disciplines as opportunities arise.

Business development

• Contribute to project proposals, financial proposals, presentations, and client liaison under senior staff guidance.
• Participate in project meetings, proposal development, and client communications to learn client relationship management and consulting engineering.
• Business travel is required upon request.

Learning and safety

• Pursue ongoing learning and professional development toward professional engineering licensure; seek feedback and develop technical and professional skills.
• Participate in professional associations, committees, team knowledge-sharing, and professional development opportunities.
• Engage with Dillon's health and safety processes and actively identify and report hazards.

Qualifications

• Degree in civil engineering or a related discipline such as environmental, geotechnical, or mining engineering.
• Eligible for registration as an Engineer-in-Training with Professional Engineers Ontario.
• Recent graduate or up to two years of relevant engineering experience; related co-op, internship, or project experience is an asset.
• Foundational understanding of earthworks, grading, drainage, and construction materials; exposure to solid waste facility design is an asset.
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, initiative, curiosity, integrity, and problem-solving skills; able to manage competing priorities.
• Interest in environmental regulations, permitting, approvals, and consulting engineering.

Additional assets

• Experience with AutoCAD/Civil 3D, GIS, geomatics, or surveying is considered an asset.

Compensation

• Posted compensation range is $57,500–$86,500; the offer depends on education, experience, skills, internal equity, and geographic region.
• Additional offerings include an employee share purchase plan, overtime premium after the stated 40-hour weekly threshold, health benefits, retirement savings matching up to 5.5%, student loan assistance, wellness support, vacation, and an employee assistance program.

Development and inclusion

• The Early Career Development program is designed for technical professionals with less than three years of consulting experience and offers monthly sessions to build technical and consulting capabilities.
• Dillon describes its workplace as employee-owned and committed to employment equity and inclusion.