Service Director, Geotechnical Engineering

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the Oakville, Ontario or Guelph, Ontario office. Travel of up to 20% is required.

Salary: $160,000–$210,000, commensurate with experience, skills, and geographic location.

Company

hirify.global is a global environmental solutions company delivering science, engineering, field, consulting, and data-driven solutions for environmental, regulatory, and operational challenges.

What you will do

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the geotechnical engineering service line and drive revenue, profitability, utilization, margins, pipeline, and cost-management targets.
• Lead Service Leads and multidisciplinary teams, oversee workforce planning and hiring, and develop talent through performance and succession planning.
• Direct project staffing, technical delivery, project reviews, lifecycle controls, quality assurance, and profitability across geotechnical assignments.
• Support business development, account strategy, proposals, client relationships, and cross-service collaboration to secure new and repeat work.
• Act as Project Director, subject matter expert, or proposal lead when appropriate.
• Champion safety standards and collaborate with functional leaders across HR, Finance, Health and Safety, Legal, and Marketing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering and a valid P.Eng. designation required; a master’s degree is preferred.
• At least 15 years of progressive post-graduation geotechnical engineering experience, including investigations, foundation engineering, earthworks, and advanced analysis and design.
• Expertise in shallow and deep foundations, drilled shafts, driven piles, micropiles, retaining structures, and ground improvement systems.
• Strong knowledge of soil and rock mechanics, settlement analysis, slope stability, seepage analysis, and finite element modeling.
• Experience with GeoStudio, LPile, Group, Settle3D, PLAXIS, Rocscience, or equivalent geotechnical software.
• Valid Class 5 or G driver’s license with no restrictions, plus experience in project management, technical proposals, business development, and multidisciplinary team leadership.

Culture & Benefits

• Purpose-driven work connecting environmental responsibility with human progress.
• Collaboration across disciplines, geographies, and professional specialties.
• Hybrid work arrangement with regular office presence in Oakville or Guelph.
• Support and reasonable accommodation are available during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
• Equal opportunity employment focused on inclusive teams and diverse perspectives.