Senior Environmental Project Manager-Energy

About the role

ESA is a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm with 50 years of experience across California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southeastern United States. We specialize in planning, designing, permitting, mitigating, and restoring projects for our communities, infrastructure systems, open spaces, and wildlands.

Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager, senior project manager, and/or contributing author for CEQA and NEPA documents for a variety of energy-related projects.
• Manage tasks, project or task budgets and invoicing, and project delivery schedules; handle project logistics; disseminate and maintain related information and resources; meet with team members to gauge progress toward task completion; serve as the point person for team member or client questions; prepare or direct project research and analysis; support or lead public outreach efforts relating to environmental review; and deliver project assignments on time and within budget.
• Lead marketing and business development pursuits for selected tasks and/or projects of moderate complexity, including preparing scopes of work, schedules, and budgets, providing technical input, and participating in interviews for new work.
• Provide mentorship and potentially supervise junior staff, including reviewing their work for accuracy and clarity and providing constructive feedback and career development guidance while working on projects together.

Requirements

• Minimum of 20+ years of related professional experience, at least some of which working in a consulting environment, with responsibilities including conducting research, analyzing impacts, writing sections of reports, and overseeing quality assurance/quality control reviews of deliverables.
• Proficiency with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and experience with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and similar state/federal regulations is required.
• Successful proposal writing experience is a plus.
• Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with major coursework in environmental science or a related interdisciplinary field.
• Strong project management, business development, writing, and analytical skills, and effective oral presentation skills with the ability to convey complex information understandably to various audiences.
• Known for building teams, mentoring staff, and effectively managing sub-consultants.
• Contribute constructively and cooperatively to solve project and team challenges, and provide coaching to foster teamwork and elevate others.

Qualifications

• Located in California, ideally in Northern California and can work remotely.

Skills

• Experience preparing analyses and evaluations related to renewable energy and electrical infrastructure projects.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family).
• Annual allocations of company shares through our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).
• A 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Professional development bonuses.
• Attendance at conferences.

Pay

The pay range for this position is approximately $170,000—$205,000 USD, based on our anticipated hiring locations as noted in the above job details. Actual compensation is determined by several factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, skills, and the city in which the applicant lives.

Schedule

Remote work with occasional onsite requirements.

What’s Special About ESA

Joining ESA means becoming part of a close-knit team of environmental professionals who contribute to outstanding projects, improve environmental stewardship, and advance a more sustainable and resilient future for our communities and wild places. At ESA, we provide benefits such as medical, dental, and vision insurance (paid at 70% for you AND your family), annual allocations of company shares through our ESOP, a 401(k) plan with company match, and paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays, to name a few. Spot and annual bonuses are available to reward the highest caliber work. We also provide specific programs whether you want to further your technical expertise, sharpen your business acumen, or help lead the next generation of employee-owners. We want to support you in reaching your career goals through tuition reimbursement, professional development bonuses, and attendance at conferences.

What’s Special About Our Energy Team in Northern California

We have managed the environmental analysis and permitting of more than 1,000 miles of electric transmission line and analyzed more than 16,000 MW of solar energy and nearly 1,300 MW of wind energy, as well as geothermal, biofuel and green hydrogen fuel energy generation projects on both private and federal lands. ESA’s energy and infrastructure clients range from regulating agencies to power producers, ports and surface mining concerns. Learn about our Energy work, click here.

Who We Are

We are a 100% employee-owned environmental consulting firm who values diversity and inclusion and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique. Our culture is built on mutual respect, recognizing that our variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives leads to better solutions, which fosters our continued success for our employee-owners and clients. In accordance with ESA’s duty and responsibility to provide and maintain a safe workplace that is free of known hazards and to minimize the exposure to potential hazards, any employee who works from an ESA office or conducts any other in-person ESA work-related activity is required to submit their proof of vaccination status or have received an approved exemption and accommodation in states which this applies. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability—or unable to use—the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact our Human Resources Department via email: humanresources@esassoc.com for assistance. Please include the following in your message so we can promptly address your request: Full name, The best method to contact you (phone number and/or email address), Title of Job Position Applied, Description of your accommodation request. ESA is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. (EOE M/V/F/D)