Environmental Project Manager (Electrical Transmission & Renewable Energy
About the role
Stantec’s Environmental Services practice seeks an experienced Environmental Project Manager / Environmental Scientist (Electric Transmission and Renewable Energy) to provide senior-level project management, environmental regulatory, and permitting services with a focus on electric transmission, solar, wind, and BESS clients and their projects, particularly in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
Responsibilities
Manage complex projects, schedules, staffing plans, scopes, budgets, risks, and change management activities with a high degree of initiative and independence.
Coordinate with clients, stakeholders, regulatory agencies, and multidisciplinary internal project teams to develop practical, science-based solutions.
Represent clients at public hearings, open houses, regulatory agency meetings, and other forums where technical information must be communicated clearly and confidently.
Perform, oversee, and provide quality review of technical work, including work prepared by other staff and subject matter experts.
Serve as an advisor and mentor to project teams, and provide direct supervision or technical direction to staff as applicable.
Develop project proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and delivery strategies for medium to complex environmental projects.
Support marketing, client relationship development, and business development activities by identifying client needs and opportunities to add value.
Environmental, Regulatory, And Permitting Responsibilities
Identify and evaluate project-specific environmental constraints, engineering design considerations, regulatory requirements, critical issues, permit strategies, and permit matrices.
Coordinate with agency personnel for consultations, data reviews, pre-application meetings, permit strategy discussions, and issue resolution.
Write, review, and integrate complex, multidisciplinary technical reports for external clients, regulatory filings, desktop assessments, field surveys, and public-facing documents.
Prepare and review environmental permit applications and supporting documentation for federal, state, and local approvals.
Interpret complex or ambiguous scientific, regulatory, and project information to make evidence-based recommendations and advance project decisions.
Present technical information at public meetings, hearings, open houses, conferences, and agency meetings.
Facilitate successful environmental permitting and compliance for multiple and varied projects while maintaining quality, schedule, budget, and client service expectations.
Qualifications
Minimum of ten years of related environmental consulting, permitting, regulatory, or project management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
Demonstrated experience managing complex electric transmission and renewable energy projects, including electric transmission, wind, solar, battery energy storage, biogas, or related infrastructure projects.
Recognized technical expertise in one or more areas of environmental science, permitting, regulatory strategy, natural resource assessments, routing and siting, environmental compliance, or related disciplines.
Working knowledge of environmental sciences, biology, wildlife science, wetlands, land use, environmental justice, cultural resources, and related technical areas, with the ability to integrate information across disciplines.
Permitting experience with one or more utility regulatory bodies, such as the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Ohio Power Siting Board, North Dakota Public Service Commission, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, Illinois Commerce Commission, Iowa Utilities Commission, or Michigan Public Service Commission.
Federal environmental regulation and permitting experience in the Upper Midwest region with various U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field offices, and National Environmental Policy Act environmental review processes.
State permitting experience with Departments of Natural Resources, Agriculture, State Historic Preservation Offices, Departments of Health, Pollution Control Agencies, or comparable agencies.
Local permitting experience for Conditional Use/Special Use Permits, highway departments, zoning and planning boards, floodplain administrators, emergency management agencies, or similar local authorities.
Ability to work under minimal supervision with broad guidelines, exercise independent judgment, and resolve unusual or complex technical, regulatory, project delivery, or client service issues.
Demonstrated commitment to health, safety, security, environment, sustainability, ethics, inclusion, accountability, and high-quality client service.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing as a subject matter expert and the ability to present information in public or client-facing forums.
Willingness and ability to travel up to 15% for agency meetings, open houses, public hearings, site visits, client events, and conferences.
Pay
$102,000.00 - $153,000.00 Annually
Schedule
Full time