Environmental Project 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.

The Environmental Project Manager is responsible for obtaining regulatory and environmental approvals necessary to construct or repair linear infrastructure for the Oregon and Washington Region.

As the Project Manager, you will primarily interface with clients regarding communications and issues associated with the overall project.
• Responsible for the overall technical quality of project deliverables.
• Provides day-to-day oversight of the budget, schedule, work assignments, client communications, coordinating the QA/QC process, and fulfilling all contracted requirements.
• Performs environmental resource analyses and provides strategies for environmental documentation and technical studies, develops compliance pathway recommendations, assesses project effects on numerous environmental resources, and provides input to address complex resource assessment issues that require technical or regulatory knowledge to resolve.
• Independently authors environmental documents and technical memos.
• Reviews all project team deliverables, including environmental documentation, permit applications, technical memorandum, technical study reports, GIS products, and other related deliverables.

• BS in Environmental Science, Geology, or a similar degree
• 5-8 years of environmental project management experience
• Requires knowledge of Oregon Public Utility Commission, Oregon Department of Energy, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Tribal Integrated Resource Management Plans, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• Requires knowledge of Washington state, specifically with Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC), Bonneville Power Administration, Washington native American Tribes, Washington and Oregon State Department of Fish and Wildlife, United States Fish and Wildlife, Army Corps of Engineers, National Marine Fishery Service, and Regional Water Quality Boards.
• Experience to include management and production of State Environmental Quality Act, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation, wetland delineations, and habitat mitigation.

The pay range for this position in Washington/Oregon is $100,000 to $150,000 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.

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