Operations: Assessment & Reclamation Full Time Calgary, AB $100,000 - $145,000 CAD per year

GCL Environmental Ltd. is seeking a Sr. Operations Manager to lead operational execution, people leadership, client delivery, and business performance across our reclamation and site assessment service lines.

This is a senior leadership role reporting directly to the CEO. It is built for someone who understands the environmental consulting business deeply, knows how to develop and lead people well, and can connect technical execution with financial performance, client trust, safety, and long term growth.

About GCL

GCL Environmental Ltd. is a lean, high performing environmental consulting firm with a strong reclamation and assessment foundation across Alberta and Saskatchewan. Our work is practical, science based, and focused on returning disturbed land toward healthy, functioning landscapes.

We have contributed to more than 1,883 reclamation certificates, completed thousands of environmental site assessments, and supported the return of more than 10,000 acres of land toward equivalent land capability. Our mission is grounded in restoring impacted land, supporting communities, and delivering responsible outcomes with safety, integrity, and long term value.

Our culture is built around FIRE: Flexibility, Innovation, Resiliency, and Entrepreneurship. We are looking for a leader who can live those values while building a strong, accountable, technically excellent delivery organization.

The Opportunity

The Sr. Operations Manager will provide leadership across our delivery organization, including project execution, resourcing, staff development, client service, financial performance, quality control, safety culture, and adoption of GCL's operational systems.





This role is ideal for an environmental consulting professional with 12 or more years of progressive experience who has moved well beyond task execution and is ready to lead the business side of a multi service line practice. The successful candidate will understand field realities, regulatory expectations, client pressures, seasonal workload planning, project margins, team development, and the importance of calm, explicit leadership in a remote and field based consulting environment.

You will build and lead a delivery structure organized around our major clients and programs, supported by a Delivery Manager working alongside our senior project leads. You will work closely with the CEO, Business Development, technical advisors, HR, Safety, and Finance to ensure GCL delivers high quality outcomes while supporting sustainable, profitable growth.

Reporting & Structure

- Reports directly to the CEO.
- Leads GCL's delivery organization across reclamation and site assessment, including senior project leads and field teams.
- Will help design and build a client and program aligned delivery structure, including a Delivery Manager role positioned alongside existing senior leads to strengthen day to day support, coordination, and capacity management.




- Partners closely with the Field Operations Manager on regional field logistics and with Business Development on client engagement and growth.

What You Will Lead

- Lead annual and quarterly operational planning across the reclamation and assessment service lines, in alignment with GCL's corporate strategy and growth targets.
- Own delivery performance and margin: oversee project execution so work is delivered safely, efficiently, on budget, on schedule, and to GCL's quality standards.
- Manage team capacity, workload planning, utilization, and resourcing across seasonal peaks and slower operating periods, with particular attention to major client programs.
- Serve as the single delivery and margin owner for GCL's largest client programs, coordinating scope, change orders, and reporting discipline.
- Champion adoption of GCL One, our operational platform, field data capture, and project financial hygiene across all delivery teams.
- Monitor operational KPIs, revenue, margin, project performance, budget health, and delivery risks, and act on them.
- Partner with Business Development and Finance on monthly project and account reviews.
- Support business development through client engagement, proposal input, market awareness, and identification of growth opportunities.
- Reinforce GCL's health and safety expectations, including hazard assessment, field readiness, competency, incident prevention, and stop work authority.
- Act as an escalation point for client delivery concerns, project quality issues, resourcing pressures, and operational barriers.
- Promote clear, timely, professional communication with clients, internal teams, field staff, and leadership.

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📌 Sr Operations Manager (Calgary)
🏢 GCL Environmental
📍 Calgary