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About the Role

PRI is seeking an experienced Practice Lead to provide technical leadership for its combined Natural Sciences & Forestry practice. This senior leadership role is for a seasoned natural-resource professional, from either a biological sciences or a professional forestry background, who is energized by raising the technical bar, mentoring practitioners across disciplines, and building a practice known for its quality, rigour, and integrity.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior technical authority for the Natural Sciences & Forestry practice, providing expert oversight on complex projects, professional submissions, and technically challenging assignments.
Provide rigorous technical review and professional sign-off across natural sciences deliverables (habitat and species assessments, ecological studies, monitoring programs) and forestry deliverables (forest management plans, silviculture prescriptions, timber development, forest health and wildfire assessments).
Ensure all deliverables meet PRI's quality standards, professional practice requirements, and applicable provincial and federal regulatory frameworks.
Own and continuously improve the practice's technical standards, field protocols, methodologies, and quality management systems.
Establish and lead consistent technical review processes at key project milestones.
Own the technical capability of the practice across both disciplines, the field expertise, methods, and skills the team needs to deliver excellent work.
Lead the practice through senior discipline specialists, ensuring both disciplines are held to the same high standard.
Maintain labour forecasts, utilization targets, and workload planning across offices and field seasons.
Coordinate technical resources across multidisciplinary teams, partner firms, contractors, and seasonal field crews.
Lead regular practice meetings that build technical community, share knowledge, and maintain alignment across offices.
Mentor, coach, and develop biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, foresters, forest technologists, and field staff.
Develop and support senior discipline leads who provide technical depth in their respective areas.
Support recruitment and hiring of technical staff, and lead succession planning for key technical roles.
Support emerging professionals toward R.P.Bio., R.P.F., R.F.T., and other relevant registrations.
Identify training needs and contribute to internal technical training and field-safety programs.
Foster a collaborative, accountable, high-performing team culture.
Serve as a senior technical resource on major pursuits and proposals, providing technical strategy, credibility, and content.
Support strong client relationships as a trusted technical advisor.
Support the firm's Indigenous partnerships as a technical resource on natural-resource, forestry, and stewardship initiatives.
Identify emerging technical service opportunities and capability gaps, and advise leadership on where to invest.
Contribute to thought leadership and marketing that showcases PRI's expertise.
Champion the adoption of new methods, tools, and technologies that improve the quality, efficiency, and value of the practice's work.
Stay current with evolving legislation, professional practice standards, and industry best practices.

Requirements

Professional registration as an R.P.Bio., R.P.F., P.Ag., P.Biol., or equivalent in British Columbia, or eligibility for registration.
Minimum 10 years of natural sciences or forestry experience, with progressively increasing technical responsibility.
Minimum 5 years of technical leadership or team leadership experience, including mentoring, technical review, resource planning, or practice development.
Strong knowledge of natural-resource and/or forestry legislation, professional practice standards, and regulatory frameworks in British Columbia.
Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and providing senior review across multiple concurrent projects and field programs.
A collaborative leadership style and the maturity to lead a discipline adjacent to your own by relying on and developing senior specialists.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
A genuine commitment to technical excellence, professional integrity, and client service.

Skills

Technical leadership
Quality management
Discipline capability
Staffing
People development
Technical review
Professional sign-off
Quality standards
Professional practice requirements
Regulatory frameworks
Technical standards
Field protocols
Methodologies
Quality management systems
Labour forecasts
Utilization targets
Workload planning
Resource coordination
Technical community building
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Coaching
Team development
Succession planning
Recruitment
Hiring
Training needs identification
Field-safety programs
Team culture
Business development support
Technical strategy
Client relationships
Indigenous partnerships
Technical service opportunities
Capability gap analysis
Thought leadership
Marketing
Innovation
Continuous improvement
Remote sensing
LiDAR
Drone-based inventory and survey
AI-enabled approaches
Legislation
Professional practice standards
Industry best practices
GIS
Remote sensing
LiDAR
Drone-based field data collection and analysis
Multidisciplinary project support

Location

Toronto, ON

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior leadership
Minimum 10 years of natural sciences or forestry experience
Minimum 5 years of technical leadership or team leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Biology, Ecology, Forestry, Forest Sciences, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, or a related discipline.
Graduate degree an asset.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits
Genuine support for ongoing professional development

About the Company

PRI is a multidisciplinary engineering and natural sciences consulting firm with offices across British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.
We empower our technical leaders with meaningful responsibility, the support to succeed, and the opportunity to shape the future of their practice, without asking them to carry sales quotas at the expense of the work they love.
A structure designed to let technical leaders lead technically, with genuine commercial support so you can focus on the work and the team.
The opportunity to build and shape an integrated natural-resource science practice, uniting biology, ecology, and forestry under one roof.
A practice with deep and genuine First Nations partnerships and meaningful stewardship work.
A multidisciplinary environment that encourages collaboration across natural sciences, forestry, environmental, geomatics, and engineering disciplines.
A firm that is actively investing in innovation, including remote sensing, LiDAR, and AI-enabled tools that make our people's work better.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, and we particularly encourage applications from Indigenous professionals.