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Environmental Engineering Recruitment

Environmental engineering recruitment — across Canada and the USA.

PHM recruits the environmental engineers and scientists who keep projects compliant and land usable — contaminated sites and remediation, water and wastewater, air quality, permitting and impact assessment, and sustainability. Specialist search across consulting, industry, and the public sector, on an exclusive, fee-on-hire basis.

Why this hire is hard

Permitting timelines are set by people you cannot currently hire.

Every Ontario facility holding an air approval has to move onto the province’s self-registration system by the end of January 2027, and the reports behind each one have to be signed by a licensed engineering practitioner. Thousands of sites, one deadline, and a signature only some of your people can give. There is no shortage of environmental consultants; there is a shortage of the ones who can put their name on the file.

What it costs while the seat is open

Every week a senior environmental seat is open, approvals queue behind it — and a delayed approval moves a client’s construction date, not just your schedule.

How we run it instead

Our environmental engineering recruiters know which submissions need a seal and which do not, and assess people against the files they actually closed rather than the ones they worked on.

What we recruit for

From project engineers to practice leaders.

Genuine depth across the environmental engineering disciplines — we understand the roles and the work they answer for, not just the titles. A sample of the work and the projects we recruit for:

Skills we recruit
Air quality & dispersion modellingApprovals & permittingContaminated sitesEnvironmental planningField servicesGISHydrogeologyRegulatory & complianceRemediation designSite assessment (ESA)Waste managementWater & wastewater
Project types
Brownfield redevelopmentClimate & resilienceImpact assessmentIndustrial & manufacturingMining & resourcesMunicipal infrastructureSustainability & ESG

Recruiting for municipal servicing, stormwater or water infrastructure design? That work sits with our civil engineering team.

Levels from EITs, scientists, and intermediate engineers through senior and principal environmental engineers, discipline leads, project managers, and directors.

How we engage

Exclusive contingency.

Retained-level rigour, on an exclusive basis, for a fee paid on the hire — no upfront retainer and the delivery risk on us. We also work standard contingency where a role suits it. How we engage →

Because we don’t run volume, an exclusive environmental mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.

Where environmental engineers work

Consulting, industry, and the public sector.

Environmental consulting

Assessment, remediation, water, air, and permitting for environmental and multidisciplinary consulting practices.

Industry & energy

Compliance, remediation, and sustainability inside industrial, mining, and energy operations.

Public sector & infrastructure

Permitting, impact assessment, and approvals that keep infrastructure and development moving.

Common questions

Environmental Engineering recruitment, answered.

What environmental engineering roles do you recruit for?

The specialties and levels are listed above. We recruit them for consultancies, owners, contractors and industrial employers across Canada and the USA.

Do you recruit environmental scientists as well as engineers?

Yes. Alongside environmental engineers, we place environmental scientists, hydrogeologists, and permitting and compliance specialists across consulting, industry, and the public sector.

Do you work on a retained or contingency basis?

Exclusive contingency. You get the reach and rigour of a retained search, invoiced only when you hire — so an unsuccessful search costs us, not you.

Can you advise on environmental salaries and compensation?

Yes. We provide real-time compensation insight for the specific role, region, and seniority you’re hiring for — so an offer is competitive without overpaying.

Where do you recruit environmental talent?

Across Canada and the United States. We’re headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada and work on-site where it counts and remote-fluent by design.

Are the best environmental roles even advertised?

Often not. Many of the strongest environmental roles are filled discreetly, through direct search — the roles no job board carries, because they are gone before one would.

Related disciplines

Explore where else our expertise runs deep.

Get in touch

Hiring an environmental engineer? Tell us the role.

An advisory conversation about the environmental hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.