Job Description

Okane Consultants is an integrated engineering and geoscience consulting company with offices in Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. We help mining companies plan for the future, and embed sustainable social and environmental practices into their Life of Mine plans.
Why Choose Us? Okane’s culture is defined by the everyday behaviors of our people that are indicative of our Core Values: passionate, thoughtful/caring, smart/clever, positive, and humble. Our Culture, together with our Core Purpose, Help Create a Better Tomorrow, is the soul of our company. This allows us to focus on our Niche, which is the provision of Integrated Mine Planning, Closure, and Relinquishment Solutions. We place a strong focus on diversity and inclusion and believe in flexibility – with a focus on work-life balance. We provide employees with tools to succeed and grow with the company, open door communication, and other benefits to ensure our employees have the means to feel fulfilled.
Some perks:

• Competitive salary + bonuses + raises
• Competitive paid time off.

• Paid sick days
• Health and dental coverage
• Health spending account
• Short term and long-term disability
• Growth and advancement opportunities available along with Professional Development funding

• Flexibility: Flexible workplace policy, maternity and parental leave top-ups and flexibility with return to work.

Our Next Geotechnical Engineering Lead… We have an exciting new opportunity for a Geotechnical Engineering Lead to join our team! This role will provide technical oversight and leadership to Okane’s current and future geotechnical team.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy of proposal technical workflow and costs.
• Quality of technical outputs in Geotechnical Engineering.
• Provide input and direction to corporate technical practices within their discipline.
• Serve as an Engineer of Record, where appropriate.

• Senior level direction of tailings management design studies and related analyses is an asset.
• Prepare advanced technical documentation and reports.
• Apply an advanced understanding in the area of geotechnical engineering to assist in the delivery of new approaches to solve problems.
• Lead and review numerical modelling programs to assess geotechnical stability, dam break assessments, liquefaction, and consolidation assessments.
• Lead and review analytical work related to deposition and reprocessing of tailings.

• Scope and deliver geotechnical investigations to support projects (site investigations, monitoring equipment installations etc).
• Manage field studies for the collection and maintenance of data from scientific instrumentation installed at mine waste reclamation monitoring sites.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship and leadership to staff.
• Provide senior technical input to project teams ensuring core processes and technical standards are followed.
• Project coordination and budgeting.

• Leverages existing professional networks to pursue new leads, opportunities, and strategic partnerships.
• Maintain effective client relationships and networks and generating tailings work.
• Prepare or review detailed work scopes for proposals.
• Interact competently with internal and external stakeholders of varying levels of expertise.
• Foster and maintain client relationships and identify innovative opportunities.

Job Requirements

• Embody Okane’s Core Vision (Help Create a Better Tomorrow) and Values (Passionate, Smart and Clever, Positive, Thoughtful and Caring, and Humble).
• Lead with integrity, fairness, and transparency.
• Champion diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.

• Understand the difference between strategic and tactical activity within the business.
• Demonstrated active listening skills and ability to ask relevant questions and high curiosity quotient.
• Demonstrated created problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, consider alternatives and respond quickly and effectively to unexpected and rapidly changing conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with assigned problems in a mature, creative and experienced manner by modifying established guides, devising new approaches, applying existing criteria in new ways.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate financial impacts of decisions and develops strategies to address financial resource issues.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Okane is committed to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility and if you require accommodation during the selection process, please let our HR Team know. We thank you for your interest in Okane, however only those candidates who are selected will be contacted.
Application Deadline We welcome all applicants to submit their CV prior to August 30 2022 To find out more about Okane, visit www.okc-sk.com.