Senior Environmental Manager

NV5 is a leading provider of tech-enabled engineering, testing, inspection, and consulting solutions for the built environment. We specialize in engineering design, asset management, and geospatial data analytics to support infrastructure resilience and building systems performance throughout the entire asset lifecycle.

We resolve complex regulatory, environmental, and safety compliance challenges on behalf of our clients to protect people, property, and natural resources. Nearly every project carries an environmental footprint that necessitates regulatory permit compliance. At NV5, we collaborate closely with clients to identify focused and effective regulatory strategies to achieve project objectives. Our goal is to highlight the environmental constraints, schedule consequences, and cost implications associated with project implementation. NV5 provides expert assistance with regulatory compliance matters, which can often be complicated and time-consuming. We deliver solutions to the most challenging regulatory compliance processes.

We are seeking a Senior Environmental Manager to oversee obtaining regulatory and environmental approvals for constructing or repairing linear infrastructure projects across the Oregon region.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing environmental documentation and regulatory permits to support large-scale utility capital improvements and daily operational maintenance activities. Experience should include comprehensive management of teams that develop environmental products and obtain project permit approvals in disciplines such as biology, cultural resources, water quality, and other relevant environmental fields.
• Responsible for overall performance, budgets, schedules, procedures, and systems relating to compliance service programs for federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations.
• Requires project management experience managing entitlement for large-scale projects such as electric transmission, gas transmission, substations, and renewable production.
• Requires advanced knowledge of SEPA, NEPA, and land use planning.
• Responsible for compliance strategies and client interface, overall program goals, and conflict resolution.
• Develops regulatory strategies for compliance with agencies such as Oregon Public Utility Commission, Oregon Department of Energy, Oregon Department Environmental Quality, Tribal Integrated Resource Management Plans, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• Specific experience includes at least three years of experience in Oregon conducting land use permitting of high voltage transmission lines, including completing an Energy Facility Siting Council (“EFSC”) Application for a Site Certificate (“ASC”). In addition, experience in Washington state, specifically with Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC), Bonneville Power Administration, Washington native American Tribes, Oregon and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States Fish and Wildlife, Army Corps of Engineers, National Marine Fishery Service, Regional Water Quality Boards, is desired.
• Experience to include management and production of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) documentation, wetland delineations, and habitat mitigation.
• Performs in-depth analysis and strategies for environmental documentation and technical studies, develops compliance pathway recommendations, assesses project effects on numerous environmental resources, processes agency comments, and provides overall guidance to address complex resource assessment issues that can often lack precedent and require high-level technical and regulatory knowledge to resolve.
• Performs QA/QC on all outgoing deliverables.
  
  

Qualifications

• BS in Environmental Sciences, Geology, or a similar related degree
• 8-10 years of direct experience
• NEPA, SEPA, and land use planning
• Expertise in licensing of electric transmission projects
• Working experience with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, the Oregon Department of Energy, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Tribal Integrated Resource Management Plans, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  
  

The pay range for this position in Washington/Oregon is $130,000 to $180,000 per year. Base pay offered may be higher or lower depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location of the candidate. Restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.

All local employment laws apply. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via the NV5 careers site.

NV5 offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, PTO, 401(k), and professional development/advancement opportunities.

NV5 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. NV5 complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.