Environmental Project Manager (Electrical Transmission & Renewable Energy

Location: Minneapolis, MN, United States; Hybrid

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Stantec has an outstanding record and extensive nationwide portfolio of transmission, wind, solar, and battery energy storage projects that we have helped to bring online. Our team specializes in environmental services and engineering with staff located throughout the country. Stantec has a team of over 3,000 environmental professionals located in over 170 offices throughout the US. We have a team of recognized experts who have dedicated their careers to electrical transmission and renewable energy project development, and we are known and trusted as credible experts. We leverage this diverse team of experienced staff to successfully support projects that include diverse ecosystems, stakeholders, and design requirements. Stantec supports clients during the early stages of routing and siting; followed by regulatory support and permitting; completion of construction; and ongoing operations and maintenance.

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Environmental Services practice seeks an experienced Environmental Project Manager / Environmental Scientist (Electric Transmission and Renewable Energy) to provide senior-level project management, environmental regulatory, and permitting services with a focus on electric transmission, solar, wind, and BESS clients and their projects, particularly in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio. This role is intended for a professional who serves as an internal subject matter expert, applies advanced practical and theoretical environmental knowledge, and works independently under broad guidelines to resolve complex project, regulatory, and client challenges.

Your Key Responsibilities

The main focus of this position is to manage complex electric transmission and renewable energy projects through environmental assessments, permitting, agency coordination, compliance, and reporting with support and collaboration from a robust team of subject matter experts. The successful candidate will exercise independent judgment, initiative, and in-depth evaluation of technical, regulatory, schedule, budget, and stakeholder factors to address unusual or complex issues. Technical expertise related to state regulatory filings, environmental science and permitting, data management, quality review, and multidisciplinary reporting is critical to the role to ensure high-quality deliverables and added value to Stantec’s clients.

Project Management responsibilities include:

• Managing complex projects, schedules, staffing plans, scopes, budgets, risks, and change management activities with a high degree of initiative and independence
• Coordinating with clients, stakeholders, regulatory agencies, and multidisciplinary internal project teams to develop practical, science-based solutions
• Representing clients at public hearings, open houses, regulatory agency meetings, and other forums where technical information must be communicated clearly and confidently
• Performing, overseeing, and providing quality review of technical work, including work prepared by other staff and subject matter experts
• Serving as an advisor and mentor to project teams, and providing direct supervision or technical direction to staff as applicable
• Developing project proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and delivery strategies for medium to complex environmental projects
• Supporting marketing, client relationship development, and business development activities by identifying client needs and opportunities to add value

Environmental, regulatory, and permitting responsibilities include:

• Identifying and evaluating project-specific environmental constraints, engineering design considerations, regulatory requirements, critical issues, permit strategies, and permit matrices
• Coordinating with agency personnel for consultations, data reviews, pre-application meetings, permit strategy discussions, and issue resolution
• Writing, reviewing, and integrating complex, multidisciplinary technical reports for external clients, regulatory filings, desktop assessments, field surveys, and public-facing documents
• Preparing and reviewing environmental permit applications and supporting documentation for federal, state, and local approvals
• Interpreting complex or ambiguous scientific, regulatory, and project information to make evidence-based recommendations and advance project decisions
• Presenting technical information at public meetings, hearings, open houses, conferences, and agency meetings
• Facilitating successful environmental permitting and compliance for multiple and varied projects while maintaining quality, schedule, budget, and client service expectations
• Additional responsibilities may include coordinating, conducting, and/or leading field work and implementing health, safety, security, and environmental practices during project execution