Environmental Program Manager

At Anser Advisory, part of Accenture, we strive and succeed by creating smart, dynamic, and professionally skilled teams to deliver extraordinary projects for our clients. You will work on interesting projects that will expand your expertise and hone your technical skills through the ability to access the most advanced technology on the market. Your successful impact will help us obtain our goal of being the nationwide go-to professional services provider. Anser provides our clients with advisory, compliance, program, and project construction management services at the highest level of dedication.

Our relationships are based on our credibility to deliver on our commitments, with unbeatable service levels to our clients which has resulted in our rapid growth, nationwide.

The Environmental Program Manager, Special Projects, America will be responsible for driving appropriate cross-team delivery in the review, environmental due diligence, environmental permit acquisition and environmental permit compliance for data centers to allow for the construction and delivery of our critical infrastructure. Travel required 0-25% of time.

Duties & Responsibilities

• The Environmental Program Manager, Special Projects, America will be responsible for driving appropriate cross-team delivery in the review, environmental due diligence, environmental permit acquisition and environmental permit compliance for data centers to allow for the construction and delivery of our critical infrastructure. Specific responsibilities will include:
• People Management

-Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

-Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.

-Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.

-Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

• Management of environmental risk evaluations, permitting, approvals, and consent activities for existing and new datacenter and associated infrastructure development for sites.
• Management of environmental due diligence and risk assessment during site acquisition, including Environmental Site Assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, Air Quality and Permitting reviews, regulatory and permitting evaluations, and biological, ecological, and cultural resource evaluations and surveys.
• Management of environmental consultants for the delivery of environmental approvals and consents, due diligence assessments, risk evaluations, and biological, ecological and cultural resources evaluations, surveys and reports.
• Development of remediation strategies, approvals and oversight of completion of any remedial actions required prior to site pre-positioning and/or construction.
• Identification of environmental permitting requirements and development of delivery strategies, including environmental mitigation, in coordination with design, construction, Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), operations, and permitting teams to meet required timelines.
• Support of regulatory agency, stakeholder and community engagement activities and negotiations for new builds and existing facilities.
• Support of development of environmental risk and permitting mitigations to enable datacenter construction and operations within development timelines.
• Management of environmental compliance planning and execution for pre-positioning, construction activities and operational turnover.
• Support the further development of the land development and environmental strategy and policy programs to support datacenter development and operations.
• Leverage technical expertise to provide support to internal client stakeholders during development of new initiatives and programs.
• Facilitate in team communication of land development and environmental requirements to diverse internal stakeholders, including legal, end-to-end, land acquisition, land development, energy, design, construction, operations, community development, CELA and sustainability teams.
• Other: Embody our Culture and Values

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science or program management, OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years project or people management experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4+ years of experience in environmental permitting, including environmental impact assessments, permit acquisition, new region regulatory reviews, cultural and ecological surveys and approvals, environmental due diligence and risk assessments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with mission critical facilities or large-scale construction projects
• Experience in construction and operational environmental compliance and experience working through environmental permitting in multiple markets.
• Specific knowledge of environmental permitting programs and requirements including, but not limited to air quality, threatened and endangered, USACE/404 permitting, SPCC, cultural resources, etc.
• Working knowledge of remedial investigations, remediation strategies and execution, site conceptual models and site management plans and ability to develop permitting timelines, and identify permitting risks and mitigation

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Each of us contributes to our inclusive environment in how we act, our level of commitment, our encouragement to others to share their ideas, and our everyday, outstanding teamwork to support our clients.

Simply put, our firm is better...because of the people we work with.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Anser Advisory is a drug-free workplace.

Benefits for the whole you!