SENIOR BIOLOGIST

Terrestrial ecology, wildlife, permitting, and complex environmental projects, with the leadership to grow clients and mentor the next generation.

About The Chance

PRI is seeking a Senior Biologist , a seasoned consulting biologist who thrives on solving real client problems, on time and on budget, and moving projects through approvals to a result. This is a senior consulting and project-leadership role at the heart of our environmental work, for someone with deep terrestrial and wildlife ecology expertise and a proven track record delivering consulting projects within provincial and federal regulatory environments.

We work with provincial agencies, municipalities, First Nations, developers, and industry across forestry, renewable energy, municipal, land development, transportation, and resource sectors throughout Western Canada and Ontario. Our biologists are consultants first: they design and lead field programs, but they also manage budgets and schedules, navigate permitting and regulatory processes, build client and regulatory relationships, win work, and deliver defensible results under commercial timelines. This is applied, client-facing consulting work, not a research or academic role.

The position is based in Kelowna, Vancouver, Surrey, Calgary or Toronto , with flexibility for the right candidate in Ontario, and involves a mix of field and office work with travel for fieldwork as required. The role reports to the Practice Lead, Natural Sciences & Forestry, and works alongside a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and resource professionals.

Who This Role Is For

This role is for an established consulting biologist.



You are comfortable owning the commercial side of consulting - budgets, schedules, proposals, and client management - alongside the science, and you have a proven track record delivering environmental consulting projects.

Ideally, you already have strong knowledge of the regulatory landscape and established relationships with agencies, communities, and clients in one or more of our operating provinces. We will also consider a strong senior consultant from another province who has the depth and adaptability to build jurisdiction-specific knowledge quickly, with our support, because consulting instinct and senior experience are harder to teach than a provincial regulatory regime.

What is not a fit for this particular role is a background primarily in research or academia; this is an applied, client-facing consulting position.

What You’ll Do

Lead consulting projects and client delivery

- Lead consulting projects end to end, owning scope, budget, schedule, deliverables, and client satisfaction - not just the technical work.
- Manage project budgets, schedules, cost control, and billing oversight, delivering quality work within commercial constraints.
- Serve as a senior point of contact for clients, providing responsive, practical, solutions-oriented advice.
- Carry a meaningful billable workload as a senior consultant,



balancing project leadership with hands-on technical delivery.

Terrestrial and wildlife ecology

- Design, coordinate, and lead field studies in terrestrial and wildlife ecology, including species-at-risk surveys, habitat assessments, and biodiversity monitoring.
- Analyze and interpret ecological data to support environmental assessments, impact studies, permitting, and mitigation planning.
- Prepare high-quality technical reports and regulatory submissions that comply with applicable provincial and federal environmental legislation and stand up to regulatory scrutiny.
- Apply pragmatic, defensible professional judgment to help clients meet regulatory obligations and project goals.

Regulatory, client, and community relationships

- Navigate applicable provincial and federal permitting and regulatory processes, and liaise effectively with regulatory agencies.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients, regulators, First Nations, Indigenous communities, municipalities, and other stakeholders to support project approvals.
- Represent PRI professionally in the environmental consulting market.

Business development and team leadership

- Write successful proposals, work plans, and cost estimates, and contribute actively to business development.
- Identify and pursue new opportunities with existing and new clients.
- Mentor and develop junior and intermediate biologists, sharing consulting craft as well as technical knowledge.
- Lead and support multidisciplinary project teams, collaborating across the firm’s disciplines.
- Complete corporate, operational, and administrative responsibilities in a timely, professional manner.

📌 Senior Biologist (Surrey)
🏢 PRI Engineering
📍 Surrey