Environmental Compliance Project Manager

Woodard & Curran•New York, NY

1d•$120,000 - $125,000•Remote

About The Position

Woodard & Curran is an employee-owned engineering, science, and operations firm dedicated to clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. We foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that supports professional growth, flexibility, and meaningful work, empowering our employees to make a lasting impact on our clients, communities, and the planet. At Woodard & Curran, there’s nothing we love more than a tough environmental engineering challenge. We handle a wide range of water and environmental issues—solving complex problems with creativity and tenacity. That’s how we make a difference to our clients, people, and planet. Our company was founded on a simple concept: provide a safe and enjoyable place to work with opportunity, integrity, and commitment, and we will attract talented people. Those people are at the heart of our firm, solving some of the most pressing water and environmental challenges for our clients. Woodard & Curran is offering a unique opportunity to join our compliance team, which provides high-quality compliance and permitting services to a variety of private sector clients including railway clients across the nation. You will manage complex environmental compliance projects that improve our environment and benefit our communities. Our client managers, technical leaders, and team of talented engineers and scientists will help you provide exceptional service to our clients. You will be an active participant in our delivery system improvement programs and continuous learning opportunities. Woodard & Curran has an opportunity for an Environmental Compliance Project Manager to join our growing firm and provide high-quality consulting services to our industrial, commercial, and railway clients. The selected candidate will be a key member of our national Environmental Compliance Practice and work directly with a diverse and talented group of engineers and scientists at the firm. The ideal candidate is a Project Manager with strong technical experience delivering high-quality compliance and permitting services, specifically to railroad industry clients located across the firm’s geography and core markets. In addition, the ideal candidate will be sought out by clients for innovative solutions, support and conduct business development efforts, and keep abreast of critical client and industry regulations and issues. The successful candidate will be an energetic, motivated, growth-oriented professional who can work independently and lead multi-disciplined project teams.

Requirements

Seven 7 to 10 plus years of professional experience with an environmental/engineering consulting firm.
Bachelor’s degree in environmental science or environmental engineering from an accredited program.
Experience working with railroad clients.
Strong appreciation of and commitment to safe work practices is mandatory.
Client focused with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Demonstrated experience with scoping, budgeting and implementation of complex permitting and compliance programs.
Familiarity with railroad regulatory programs across northeastern and midwestern states.
Ability to work independently and on large multi-disciplinary teams.
Outstanding written and verbal skills.
Demonstrated leadership and ability to mentor and develop a project team.

Nice To Haves

OSHA HAZWOPER 40-hour and Railway Worker training a plus

Responsibilities

Maintaining and establishing relationships with clients to procure and manage the scope, schedule, budget, and delivery of compliance and permitting projects.
Work directly with clients and a team to lead the delivery of projects related to providing technical advice, planning, design, permitting, and (occasionally) construction phase services for these projects.
Frequent interaction with clients, potential clients, owners and regulators. Business development efforts will include preparation of proposals, project interviews and marketing activities.
Manage and supervise the projects developed utilizing Woodard & Curran technical and administrative staff.
Lead and complete technical tasks as required to support the projects.
Developing permit applications, regulatory reviews, compliance plan preparation, Tier II reporting; and related documentation and reporting in accordance with applicable environmental laws and regulations.
Selection, coordination, and management of subcontractors, cost estimating, and management of the scope, schedule, and budget for various project tasks.
Report writing and interaction with project staff, clients and regulatory agencies will also play an important role in the candidate’s success.