Director, Permitting & Environmental Approvals (Canada)

HYREON TALENT SOLUTIONS INC. | Full time

Multiple locations, Canada | Posted on 07/30/2026

Energy & infrastructure on-site / hybrid, Canada

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Opportunity profile

We are building our network of permitting and environmental approvals leaders for large-scale infrastructure and data centre development across North America.

You will have carried a major project through provincial or state environmental assessment, and you know the difference between a permitting schedule that is optimistic and one that is real. You hold the schedule as a critical-path item and defend it to the people who would rather believe the optimistic version.

About HYREON

HYREON Talent Solutions is a North American boutique search firm, headquartered in Canada, specializing in leadership and business-critical talent across the energy, utilities, data centre and digital infrastructure sectors. We connect employers across Canada and the United States with the senior leaders and specialist professionals driving the continent’s power and compute build-out.

Requirements

• Delivery of environmental assessment and permitting for industrial, energy, or heavy infrastructure projects
• Working knowledge of at least one provincial or state EA regime end to end
• Working knowledge of applicable air, noise, water, waste, species, and emissions approvals for generation or heavy industrial development
• Experience coordinating technical consultants, regulators, permitting authorities, and Indigenous consultation workstreams concurrently
• Credibility with regulators built over years, not months

This background often comes from environmental approvals leads at energy, mining, LNG, or major infrastructure developers, and the senior ranks of environmental consultancies.

Screening question: Have you carried a project through a full provincial or state environmental assessment to approval, and in which jurisdiction?

Typical market compensation

The applicable range and total-rewards structure will vary by employer, location, scope, employment structure, incentives, equity, travel, shift and project conditions.

Our commitment

HYREON supports inclusive and accessible recruitment. We welcome qualified professionals and consider candidates without regard to characteristics protected by applicable law. Accommodation is available on request during any HYREON-led process.