Senior Project Manager Energy Development Permitting

Position Overview

Dudek’s journey began in 1980 with a vision to serve Southern California’s water and wastewater agencies. Today, we are a 100% employee-owned firm supporting clients nationwide and delivering projects that improve and protect the built and natural environments of communities throughout the United States. Our work has been recognized by leading industry organizations, and we’ve been honored with multiple national Top Workplace Awards. Our employee-owners are unified by a singular commitment to supporting projects that address key societal issues, such as the transition to renewable energy, infrastructure hardening and repair, environmental protection, and community resilience.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Foster client connections through existing client relationships and proactive business development while working with others to anticipate and pursue work
• Promote a culture of teamwork, engagement, quality service, and customer satisfaction to our clients
• Enhance Dudek’s professional reputation and demonstrate the ability to be creative and innovative with these tasks while representing Dudek in a professional manner
• Provide QA/QC of Dudek prepared work products and associated mentorship on methods and means to improve work products
• Manage projects that are fast-paced with changing requirements
• Able to work with large project teams for a public regulated utility
• Lead permitting strategies by taking initiative to assure client expectations are being met
• Lead the preparation, organization, and production of environmental compliance management plans, permit applications, and other environmental documents to guide compliance implementation during the project lifecycle
• Work with project team members to track environmental commitments to support the implementation of permit conditions on a variety of projects
• Cook with client, field personnel, and environmental resource specialists to ensure permit conditions are implemented during construction
• Mentor staff in the development of the skills in permitting and document preparation

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience
• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, or a related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience with proactive business development
• Valid driver’s license and active personal automobile liability insurance by first day of employment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with leading stakeholder outreach programs for energy projects
• Experience developing projects on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands
• Experience with linear energy infrastructure projects being developed by publicly regulated utilities
• Strong technical writing and research skills as well as solid written and verbal communication skills
• Hightly organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Five (5) or more years’ experience managing the permitting process for energy project teams and mentorship of team members
• Experience with managing environmental resource specialists and managing large project teams

Compensation

$100,000-$150,000 annually*

Physical Requirements

• Working on a computer, sitting, or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting
• Attending meetings, both in person and virtually, and speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc.
• Specific vision abilities, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus