Senior Environmental Associate - Permitting

Responsibilities

• Lead permitting strategies for new generation projects, plant expansions, equipment modifications, and operational changes.
• Perform or manage the preparation and submission of: NSR, PSD, NNSR, and Title V permits, air permit amendments and renewals, NPDES permits and permit modifications and related environmental authorizations.
• Evaluate permitting pathways to minimize project schedule, cost, and regulatory risk.
• Oversee emissions calculations, air modeling, regulatory applicability analyses, and permit support documentation.
• Support NPDES permitting evaluations, discharge requirements, monitoring obligations, and compliance planning.
• Lead BACT, LAER, and control technology assessments.
• Evaluate operational and engineering changes for environmental permitting and compliance impacts.
• Serve as primary liaison with EPA, state permitting agencies, and local regulators.
• Lead permit negotiations, agency responses, inspections, and compliance audits.
• Support emissions reporting, Title V certifications, NPDES reporting, and other permit-required submissions.
• Maintain awareness of regulatory developments and communicate their impacts to project and operations teams.
• Manage permitting projects from proposal through completion, including schedules, budgets, and consultant oversight.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, legal, operations, and development teams.
• Support environmental due diligence, asset acquisitions, and development projects.
• Provide strategic guidance regarding environmental risk, compliance, and operational flexibility.
• Support ESG and sustainability initiatives as needed.
• Travel up to 25%, including out-of-state.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of environmental permitting and compliance experience.
• Demonstrated experience with: NSR, PSD, and Title V permitting, NPDES permitting and compliance, air emissions calculations, federal and state environmental regulations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to convey complex information effectively.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• GIS (e.g., ArcGIS), Access, and/or Power BI experience is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in dynamic environments.
• Adaptability to rapidly changing situations, including occasional extended hours.
• Physically capable of lifting up to 50 lbs, bending and climbing.

Qualifications

• Professional Engineer certification is desirable.
• Experience permitting in multiple states is desirable.
• Air dispersion modeling expertise is desirable.

Benefits

We offer a variety of excellent benefits. Full-time employees are offered the following: medical, dental, vision, LTD, STD, and Life insurance plans. You can even select additional “al la carte” benefits to meet all your needs. You can also enroll in our 401k, flex spending accounts for medical and childcare needs, and participate in our employee referral and tuition reimbursement programs.