Senior Environmental Project Manager

Description

The Vertex Companies, LLC (VERTEX) is a $180M global consulting firm that integrates strategic advisory, project management, and dispute resolution services for organizations facing complex challenges in a world of risk.

We embody our core values of embracing lifelong learning, operating with urgency, maximizing value, and driving collaboration to better outcomes for our clients, colleagues, and communities.

Join us if you are looking for a career that offers you a chance to love what you do and deliver meaningful impact.

The Senior Project Manager will assist their assigned manager with execution of assigned tasks, production of on‑time and high‑quality work product, and coordination with other team members as assigned or requested.

They are responsible for independent creation of technical work product as a single contributor and for supporting the success of their entire assigned practice area as the highest priority, regardless of any assigned subpractice area focus, or specific client engagement or relationship.

The Senior Project Manager will perform assigned tasks in a manner that models the Company’s core values and inspires and encourages goal achievement through empowerment, learning, and creativity among the team.

• Conduct and/or oversee multifaceted projects that may include environmental due diligence, subsurface investigations, indoor air quality assessments, hazardous building materials, vapor intrusion pathway assessment and mitigation, soil and groundwater remediation.
• Other tasks may include property condition assessments (PCAs), commercial energy usage assessments, and other project assignments as appropriate.
• Work directly with clients to understand projects and develop appropriate scopes of work.
• Prepare and senior review proposals, technical plans & specifications, regulatory submittals, and other technical assessment reports including ensuring accurate data/summary tables and/or figures.
• Coordinate work activities for multiple project functions to ensure satisfactory delivery.
• Senior review Health and Safety Plans/Job Safety Analyses for project sites.
• Actively participate in Account Management program to engage with clients and procure work.
• Manage projects to meet milestones, budgetary limits, deadlines, regulatory requirements, or other performance indicators.
• Responsible for all aspects of the project life cycle: planning, scope definition, budgeting, coordination, execution, and delivery.
• Responsible for supporting assigned manager in meeting or exceeding the defined annual budget for the entire practice area (including proactive creation of work product to meet or exceed defined utilization targets, oversight of execution of profitable technical assignments, and communication with clients as assigned or requested).
• Effectively coordinate with other team members as requested or assigned, able to provide technical work product review, and monitor own progress on assigned tasks or projects, and ensure work product produced by self is consistently high quality.
• Support assigned manager in monitoring of all relevant data related to own performance such as individual utilization rate vs target, client deadlines, accurate and timely timesheet data, etc.
• Meet or exceed defined individual average utilization goals as set forth by company leadership.
• Conduct own behavior in a "lead by example" manner, with emphasis on positivity.
• Travel, as necessary to support client, employee, and leadership needs.
• Perform quality control of all assigned service delivery and self‑generated work product, maintaining an excellent reputation of quality.
• Provide feedback to project team leader in a manner that assists with rapid identification and escalation of any client, or technical or operational challenges.

• Be aware of and perform own tasks in a manner that supports the organization’s vision and defined business objectives.
• Conduct self and prioritize tasks to work toward achievement of defined profit objectives of assigned projects.
• Cooperate in construction of strong cross‑functional teams (support staff assignments of self) to achieve success in…