Senior NEPA Specialist

AKS Engineering & Forestry, LLC•Phoenix, AZ

About The Position

AKS is seeking an experienced Senior NEPA Specialist to build, lead, and personally deliver a best-in-class NEPA practice across our energy, transmission, infrastructure, and transportation markets. This is a senior, revenue-carrying leadership role for a proven NEPA practitioner who personally originates, closes, and delivers NEPA work while serving as the primary client relationship owner and delivery lead; selling, scoping, defending, and executing work end to end.

Requirements

7+ years of NEPA experience in Arizona and New Mexico, with a strong federal focus.
Maintains direct agency relationships and repeat-client partnerships.
Has a track record of sole-source and follow-on work.
Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, including commercial and delivery risk.
Proven at selling and delivering work without relying on internal handoffs.
Operates with a hands-on, accountable, do-what-needs-to-be-done mindset.

Nice To Haves

Experience across transmission, renewable energy, infrastructure, or transportation projects.
Existing relationships within the Southwest or Western U.S.
Experience shaping or growing a NEPA practice within a consulting firm.

Responsibilities

Own and grow trusted client relationships with federal, state, and utility decision-makers.
Lead and deliver EAs, EISs, programmatic reviews, and permitting strategies from start to finish.
Take ownership beyond assigned tasks and step in wherever needed to keep projects, teams, and customers supported and running smoothly.
Independently scope, price, negotiate, and defend work.
Serve as the primary client point of contact and trusted advisor.
Manage scope, schedule, budget, and risk across complex NEPA engagements.
Build, mentor, and lead project managers and subject matter experts.
Contribute to firm-wide strategy across energy, transmission, infrastructure, and transportation sectors.