Job Description
Title: Environmental Manager/Senior Environmental Manager
Location: Houston, Texas (Required)
This role is for an experienced Environmental & Permitting specialist, with experience in large scale transmissions projects and who is looking to lead on multiple projects across the Country as a result of client's continued growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, manage, and monitor environmental aspects of large, multidisciplinary transmission projects with high degree of technical complexity and often novel permitting issues including permit applications, siting, layout planning, scoping and review of environmental studies, State and Federal agency consultations, tribal meetings, and stakeholder engagement.
- Support transmission line routing with subject matter expertise related to environmental sensitivities, policy and permitting requirements, and defensible linear siting best practices
- Manage third party technical and environmental consultants including scoping, directing and reviewing work products
- Conduct and/or oversee environmental due diligence efforts to support project identification and development plans, define permitting strategy, and navigate emerging policy
- Support schedule and budget development, and track project performance toward meeting established project goals
- Determine technical and environmental study needs, oversee performance of studies and preparation of reports, and interpret and disseminate study results for a wide variety of environmental topics including biological, aquatic, cultural, and other environmental resources
Requirements
- The ideal candidate will be proven in successful management of environmental issues and permitting of large-scale, complex energy projects.
- They will have experience and competence navigating federal, state, and local permitting processes.
- Ideally, the candidate will be well versed on the NEPA, NHPA and ESA, and have experience bringing projects through federal permitting processes, preferably transmission projects.
- They will be customer-centric, performance driven, clear and concise, emotionally intelligent, strategic-minded, have high performance standards, and demonstrate a strong sense of purpose and resolve.
- The successful candidate will bring a passion for collaboration to the role, a proven ability to deal with ambiguity and dynamic nature of project development and be able to rapidly earn credibility amongst external stakeholder groups.
- Houston Location is a must
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