Managing Partner
Dillon Consulting Limited

Mr. Robert McCharles, a 1977 Cape Breton University graduate in environmental engineering technology, is managing partner in the Dillon Consulting Limited Sydney office. Dillon is a Canadian employee-owned company of professional consulting engineers, planners and environmental scientists operating from 20 cities in Canada and working internationally.

Mr. McCharles has worked for the past 29 years as an environmental practitioner in the field of hydrogeology, environmental assessment and public consultation. As a project manager, he has been responsible for the fiscal, technical and personnel management of multi-disciplinary, high profile and publicly sensitive environmental assignments from proposal to project completion. He managed one of the largest residential environmental investigations ever undertaken in Canada – the North of Coke Ovens Sampling Program in 2001 in Sydney.

Mr. McCharles was a founding director and past chair of ECO Canada and was profiled by this institution as one of the “Builders” of the environment sector in Canada. In 1992 he became the first Nova Scotia recipient of the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists National Achievement Award.

Mr. McCharles is a founding director of the Coxheath Hills Wilderness Recreation Association, and chairs the Cape Breton Partnership Task Force on Local Economic Benefits and the Sydney Tar Ponds Remediation Project.