Consulting Associate, Sustainable Operations

ERM • Rochester, NY

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Launch Your Environmental Consulting Career With Purpose Are you early in your career and ready to make a tangible impact on environmental performance, sustainability, and regulatory compliance? At ERM, you'll work alongside industry-leading experts, tackle complex environmental challenges, and help global clients navigate today's evolving sustainability landscape. Whether you're building on internship experience or your first few years in the field, this role offers the opportunity to develop technical expertise, gain hands-on project experience, and accelerate your growth in environmental consulting. Organizations across industries face increasing environmental and regulatory challenges that require innovative, practical solutions. As a Consulting Associate on our Sustainable Operations team, you'll help clients manage environmental compliance, improve operational performance, and reduce environmental risk. Your work will contribute to projects that support responsible business practices while helping clients meet federal, state, and local environmental requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field. Or equivalent experience.
• Recent graduate to 1 year of relevant environmental consulting, industry experience, or professional internship experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Experience working with spreadsheets, databases, and technical data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
• Curiosity, initiative, and a desire to learn in a collaborative consulting environment.
• Willingness to perform fieldwork and travel to client sites as needed.
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or interest in pursuing professional certification.
• Experience preparing technical reports, regulatory submissions, or environmental compliance documentation.
• Familiarity with environmental regulations and programs related to air quality, hazardous waste, stormwater, wastewater, spill prevention, or EPCRA reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support environmental compliance and sustainability initiatives for industrial, commercial, and global clients.
• Help clients navigate complex environmental regulations and permitting requirements.
• Contribute to air quality, site investigation, remediation, and due diligence projects that drive informed business decisions.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret environmental data to support technical evaluations and recommendations.
• Develop practical solutions that help organizations achieve compliance and operate more sustainably.
• Grow your project management skills while delivering high-quality work on schedule and within budget.
• Provide technical support on environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance projects, air quality management initiatives, site investigations, remediation projects, and environmental due diligence assessments.
• Prepare permits, plans, and regulatory reports related to hazardous waste, air quality, stormwater, wastewater, NPDES, spill prevention, EPCRA Tier II, and TRI programs.
• Conduct environmental compliance assessments and support corrective action implementation to maintain regulatory compliance.
• Perform air quality analyses, emission inventories, emissions calculations, and evaluations of air pollution control technologies.
• Support Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and other due diligence activities associated with property transactions.
• Participate in field activities, including environmental sampling, ecological studies, drilling oversight, monitoring well installation, remedial testing, construction oversight, and operation and maintenance of remediation systems.
• Provide on-site environmental compliance support and technical assistance to clients.
• Compile, analyze, and interpret environmental data and contribute to technical report preparation.
• Manage multiple project tasks simultaneously while meeting quality, schedule, and budget expectations.
• Collaborate closely with Project Managers and senior consultants to successfully deliver client projects and develop your consulting expertise.

Benefits

• paid time off
• parental leave
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• disability
• AD&D insurance
• 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level