Senior Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure – Environment

Overview

Senior leader in Palladium’s Sustainable Infrastructure team, driving environmental risk management and implementation across mining, infrastructure, and nature-based solutions. You’ll lead multidisciplinary teams, shape program design, and advance ESG outcomes with mining clients in North America. You will also help drive business development and partnership building to expand impact. This role combines technical leadership with client engagement in a mission-driven, equity-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams to deliver high-quality, client-focused results across complex assignments
• Oversee proposal development, budgeting, planning, implementation, and reporting for timely delivery
• Identify and manage partners/subcontractors to strengthen technical quality and capacity
• Ensure contractually compliant delivery through partner and subcontractor performance management
• Serve as Project Director, supervising budgets, client relationships and overall project performance
• Contribute to strategic business development and opportunity pursuit in closure and environmental performance
• Lead technical input for environmental risk management, biodiversity, decarbonization, tailings, water, air, rehabilitation
• Support research, publication of technical reports, and dissemination of learnings on related themes

Key requirements

• 7+ years in a client-facing senior management role on large mining or related projects
• 5+ years directly with mining clients
• Fluency in English and one other language (French, Spanish, or Portuguese)
• Masters in Environmental Science/Engineering or related field preferred
• Strong networks in the mining and minerals sector
• Experience leading cross-geography teams and working in emerging markets
• Experience in environmental management plans and related environmental risk initiatives
• Experience in business development and proposal leadership
• In-house mining company experience preferred
• Strong communication and financial acumen

• strong stakeholder engagement
• cross-cultural collaboration
• clear written and verbal communication
• environmental risk management in mining
• environmental management plans
• biodiversity

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