
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Arcadis is seeking an experienced Senior Environmental Permitting Manager to join our team to support and grow our power business in the Midwest region across a range of service offerings for renewable development, powered lands, and utility transmission and generation. The successful candidate will be engaged in both opportunity/client development and project delivery. The position will require a candidate to work collaboratively with a diverse team of specialists and have the capacity to balance varying priorities. Arcadis offers a flexible working environment and follows a hybrid work structure, which allows for a combination of both in-office and remote work. Periodic travel will be required (10-15%).
Role accountabilities:
As a Senior Environmental Permitting Manager, the focus of your work will be to lead multidisciplinary site assessment, permitting, and environmental documentation service needs for various types of power projects. While a significant area of focus will be regulated utility generation and transmission projects, in this role you will also be engaged in permitting activities for other energy technologies (solar, co-located power, and emerging generation). The ideal candidate will have significant experience and geographical familiarity with permitting of power sector projects and be able to assist clients with planning services for project development and execution of comprehensive permitting programs. Expertise with state and federal regulations associated with the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act are highly preferred. Additionally, you will provide senior level quality assurance/quality control for client deliverables and coordinate additional project services that may include stormwater and erosion control planning, cultural resources, floodplain assessments, and various civil engineering components.
In this role, you will also be involved in supporting and/or managing the growth of new and existing client relationships in conjunction with business development and account leaders. This will include leveraging existing client relationships, supporting client account teams, and leading pursuits and proposal development. You will additionally participate in market-facing events to increase Arcadis’ presence and profile.
Qualifications & Experience:
Required qualifications for the role include:
Preferred qualifications:
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $92,160 - $153,600. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
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Arcadis is a leading global partner, delivering transformative projects with businesses, cities and industries. With 36,000 people active in more than 30 countries, we bring together the best minds from around the world to deliver intelligent products and solutions that address the challenges of climate, energy security and diversification, and livable cities.
We take design, engineering, architecture and consultancy to the next level, advising clients at every step of every project. From strategy and planning through to implementation and delivery, we combine our human and digital intelligence to co-create environments that reflect our clients’ business and stakeholder needs.
From creating a citywide sustainable legacy during and after the Paris Olympics to revolutionizing urban transit worldwide with metro systems from Sydney to Toronto, or securing clean drinking water for communities across more than 30 U.S. states, our world-changing solutions leave a positive and lasting impact.
Our work has helped more than a third of the world's communities become more resilient, and hundreds of clients to advance their decarbonization and net-zero goals. Together, we are committed to solving today's greatest problems; creating a blueprint for a better future, designed to thrive.
Arcadis. Improving quality of life.