Managing Consultant, Scientist

The future of energy and infrastructure depends on responsible environmental stewardship, effective regulatory strategy, and successful stakeholder engagement. In this role, you will help shape high-profile capital projects from planning through operation, ensuring environmental considerations are integrated into critical development decisions. Your leadership will directly support sustainable project delivery while expanding ERM's environmental permitting and impact assessment capabilities across key U.S. markets.

What Your Impact Is:

• Lead environmental permitting and regulatory strategies for major energy and technology infrastructure projects across the United States.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients navigating federal, state, and local permitting requirements.
• Support the development of renewable energy, natural gas, data center, and other critical infrastructure projects that contribute to economic growth and the low-carbon transition.
• Drive project execution, client satisfaction, and business growth while mentoring and developing team members.
• Collaborate with ERM's global technical community to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions and share industry best practices.
• Contribute to the continued expansion of ERM's impact assessment, permitting, and capital project delivery services.

What You'll Bring

Required

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in environmental studies, environmental management, wetland science, planning, geography, or a related natural resources science field of study, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years (8 years preferred) of project management, licensing, and permitting experience, including strong project experience in natural gas or renewable energy.
• Experience preparing NEPA-type documents for federal and/or state agencies and providing strategic-level Capital Project Delivery support.
• Experience with federal, state, and local permitting, particularly with the preparation of applications and documents related to the development of energy projects.
• Experience assisting clients in obtaining permits and approvals for new or expanded facilities.
• Experience overseeing and coordinating desktop and online studies or research on natural resource or resource planning topics, GIS, and map interpretation (NWI, USGS, aerial photography).
• Demonstrated ability to research and prepare concise and accurate technical documents, including presentation of findings to clients, stakeholders, and/or regulatory agencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizational abilities, and analytical skills, with experience recording and writing detailed technical data and reports.
• Ability to multi-task, maintain flexibility, travel, and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop team members; excellent people skills; responsive, collaborative, versatile, effective in a fast-paced environment, and service-oriented.
• Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.
• Strong commitment to safety.
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Preferred

• Regulatory experience within West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky, including local permitting challenges, land use considerations, and state permitting requirements.
• Experience supporting energy infrastructure projects such as data centers, natural gas facilities, solar projects, and wind energy developments.
• Expertise in permitting strategies involving regulations such as the Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and perform multi-media permitting and compliance associated with technology and energy infrastructure projects, such as data centers, natural gas, and renewable energy (solar and wind), with an emphasis on local, state, and federal permitting and regulatory compliance.
• Manage and provide technical assistance on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) projects and related activities in support of ERM clients’ development projects, including solar, natural gas, and renewable energy projects.
• Contribute technical, subject matter, and project management expertise on permitting strategies, including Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act considerations, due diligence reviews, environmental critical issues assessments, impact assessment deliverables, and overall quality control reviews.
• Manage and lead the preparation of permitting documents.
• Oversee project delivery activitiessuchasreportwriting,datacollection,dataandliteraturereview,andthedevelopmentofrecommendationsforclients.
• PreparetechnicalproposalsandparticipateinbusinessdevelopmentactivitieswithexistingclientsandidentifiedleadswhilehelpingexpandERM'sgrowingrenewableenergyprojectsandteam.
• Manageandworkwithinquality,budget,schedule,andscopeexpectations.
• CollaboratewithotherERMpractitionerstoexecuteimpactassessmentsandcapitalprojectpermittingefforts,includingbaselinestudies,environmentalimpactassessments,routingstudies,landplanning,andfacilitysitingandpermitting.
• BuildandmaintainstrongclientrelationshipswhilesupportingthesustainablegrowthofERM'senvironmentalconsultingbusiness.

Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainabilitychallengesand unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse,equitableand inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our companya great placeto build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class expertssupportsclients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technicalexpertisein addressing their environmental, health, safety,riskand social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advanceobjectiveson the ground or at the executive level.

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