About First Environment
Headquartered in Butler, New Jersey, First Environment is a veteran-owned, multi-disciplinary environmental consulting and engineering firm. We’ve earned a reputation for solving and mediating complex environmental challenges facing Fortune 500 corporations, federal and state agencies, and local clients.
We offer employees competitive compensation packages; medical, dental, and vision coverage; life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance; 401(k); educational reimbursement.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are seeking an Environmental Permitting Project Manager to join our Planning, Permitting, and Licensing Practice. This successful candidate is passionate about their work, driven by intellectual curiosity, and strives to work collectively to best serve our clients and help create the future of our communities in meaningful and sustainable ways. The Environmental Permitting Project Manager will be a hybrid position reporting to our Butler, NJ Office and working remotely and will support development, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of key permitting programs to support quality and strategic growth plans.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
· Manage permitting projects at the federal, state, and local level with a strong track record of success.
· Prepare permit applications, scientific reports, and environmental impact statements.
· Be able to effectively coordinate field work, direct and support other technical staff, interact with clients, stakeholders, and contractors, and manage budgets, invoicing, accounts receivable, schedules, and subcontractors, and support proposals and cost estimates.
· Direct experience with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), federal Clean Water Act and related permitting (Sections 404, 10, 408), federal or state Water Quality Certification, other federal permitting agencies (i.e., US Fish and Wildlife Service, Section 7 consultations, NOAA fisheries, etc.), and other applicable New Jersey regulatory agencies, including Waterfront Development, Coastal Zone Management, Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA), Natural Heritage Program (NHP), freshwater and coastal wetlands, watershed and land management (Land Resource Protection), stormwater management, New Jersey Pinelands Commission, former New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, New Jersey Flood Hazard Area Rules, marine sediment and dredging, and the Green Acres Program.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Salary Range: $130-$160
No phone calls and no employment agency submissions, please.
First Environment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality or sex.
Employment Type: Full Time