Jobs at GHD

Leads GHD’s global talent management strategy and team, aligning workforce capability, succession, leadership readiness, internal mobility, development, and talent insights with business priorities. Establishes enterprise talent frameworks and governance, advises executives using workforce data, strengthens talent pipelines, and drives consistent adoption across regions. Requires executive-level experience, strong stakeholder influence, psychometric assessment expertise, and familiarity with enterprise talent technology such as Oracle HCM.

Lead major defence and federal infrastructure programs from strategic pursuit through execution and closeout. Establish governance, delivery frameworks, risk and commercial strategies, and oversee schedule, budget, quality, procurement, project controls, and stakeholder engagement. Advise government clients and delivery partners, lead multidisciplinary teams, support strategic pursuits, and develop project delivery capability across Canada. The role requires extensive experience delivering major capital programs in complex, remote, or logistically challenging environments.

Process biweekly payroll for more than 1,000 Canadian employees across multiple provinces. Responsibilities include calculating overtime and statutory holiday pay, reviewing timesheets, processing employee changes, preparing Records of Employment, reconciling expenses, maintaining payroll-related deductions and banking information, and responding to payroll inquiries. The role requires compliance with provincial employment standards and collaboration in a hybrid workplace.

Supports strategic procurement through vendor onboarding, contracting, sourcing, performance monitoring, relationship management, renewals, and compliance. Negotiates pricing and contract terms, analyzes procurement and vendor data using SQL, Power BI, and Excel, identifies performance gaps and opportunities, supports supplier diversity, and aligns vendors with ESG commitments. The role collaborates with project teams and internal and external partners and follows procurement guidelines.

Supports procurement activities including purchase orders, vendor onboarding and prequalification, contract negotiations, supplier performance, renewals, ESG reporting, procurement system data entry, invoice discrepancy resolution, and purchase order closeout. The role collaborates with project teams, Legal, Accounts Payable, and suppliers while following procurement guidelines. It is hybrid, requiring three days per week in the Waterloo, Ontario office.

Provides project controls support across engineering projects, managing schedules, costs, change, risks, budgets, earned value metrics, reporting, and invoicing coordination. Partners with project managers and discipline leads to identify gaps, recommend corrective actions, and achieve project KPIs. Implements project controls systems, develops dashboards, mentors team members, and supports multidisciplinary projects from design through construction completion.

Provide expert compensation guidance across the Americas and EMEA, including pay decisions, salary structures, market pricing, pay equity, annual salary reviews, reward programs, and workforce analysis. Partner with business leaders and People Teams to deliver evidence-based recommendations, improve compensation frameworks, support reward governance, and strengthen organizational capability through tools, education, and continuous improvement.

Regional leadership role to define and execute growth strategy across Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Lead business development, client relationships, multidisciplinary project wins, and the Clients and Markets Business Group. Drive pipeline and proposals, support talent development, act as Project Director on large assignments when needed, represent GHD externally, and ensure alignment with corporate growth and sustainability goals.

Leads high-voltage transmission, distribution, and substation engineering delivery across complex energy projects. Responsibilities include technical design leadership, electrical calculations and modeling, design reviews, contract documentation, code compliance, construction and commissioning support, client relationship management, proposals, business development, project coordination, quality assurance, and mentoring technical staff. The role also supports grid optimization, utility interconnection, power generation, and emerging energy projects while coordinating multidisciplinary teams, vendors, regulators, and approving authorities.

Design and analyze large-diameter tunnels, deep shafts, shoring structures, and underground transit systems. Use PLAXIS, FLAC, and Rocscience for numerical analysis; prepare technical reports, specifications, proposals, cost estimates, and construction documentation. Support project delivery, client meetings, data interpretation, risk assessment, settlement monitoring, and tunnel construction planning. The role requires collaboration across Canadian and international rail, transit, and municipal tunneling projects.

Lead and manage highway planning and preliminary design projects from proposal to close-out. Oversee teams and sub-consultants, budgets, schedule, quality and client relationships; mentor junior staff; support business development and stakeholder engagement; apply transportation planning, preliminary design, EA, ITS, and rehabilitation/expansion techniques to deliver projects.

Lead and embed enterprise quality management across US West and Canada West regions. Advise stakeholders, drive ISO 9001 compliance, run audits and investigations, deliver regional quality initiatives, report performance, and support continuous improvement with cross-functional teams. Travel ~5-10%.

Lead contract administration and construction management for municipal linear infrastructure projects (water/sewers). Supervise site inspectors, manage multiple construction projects, handle claims, change orders and progress payments, coordinate with clients/contractors/design teams, ensure HSE and quality compliance, schedule and allocate work, coach staff, and implement corrective actions and continuous improvement.

Support project managers on rail and transit infrastructure projects across planning, design, procurement, construction delivery and contract administration. Assist with schedules, budgets, risk registers, project controls, stakeholder coordination, procurement support, reporting, and proposal preparation while gaining experience across the full project lifecycle.

Lead global delivery of workflow, automation, and internal software solutions across 3–5 internal and third-party squads. Drive planning, capacity balancing, CI/CD, testing, release readiness, and operational support. Standardize delivery practices, enforce platform and architecture standards on Azure, Power Platform, and Microsoft Fabric, manage vendor SOWs, track delivery metrics, and communicate risks and status to technical and business stakeholders.

Perform geotechnical and tunnel design analyses, support tunnel and shaft design using PLAXIS/FLAC/Rocscience, prepare reports and proposals, attend client meetings, support data collection/analysis, instrumentation/monitoring, cost estimating, and contribute to project delivery for large-diameter tunnel and transit projects.

Lead Canadian corporate tax compliance, tax accounting (IAS 12), and cross-border advisory for the Americas. Review returns and provisions, support audits and tax authorities, manage external advisors, improve tax processes and automation, and mentor junior team members while ensuring tax governance and risk mitigation.

Entry-level environmental engineering role supporting air quality, waste, noise, GHG quantification and verifications. Tasks include dispersion and noise modelling, field inventories and measurements, acoustic assessments, emission control design support, regulatory reporting (NPRI, TRA), and extensive fieldwork and travel supporting environmental compliance.

Lead HSE delivery for GHD's Canada Central region, ensuring legislative compliance and HSE Management System implementation. Conduct incident investigations, develop safety plans, manage injury claims and return-to-work, deliver and coordinate training, perform inspections and audits, support emergency management, collect HSE metrics, and promote a positive safety culture across offices, labs, and construction sites.

Lead planning, design, procurement, construction support, and commissioning of rail and transit infrastructure projects. Manage multidisciplinary engineering teams, stakeholders, schedules, budgets, risks, contracts, and client relationships. Support proposals and business development to grow the Rail & Transit practice.