Director - Due Diligence & Remediation

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 Director will partner closely with the assigned Managing Director (MD) to help lead and grow a high‑performing Due Diligence and Remediation team, advancing strategic priorities while contributing to strong financial performance and revenue growth. This is a highly visible leadership opportunity for a candidate who is energized by building client relationships, developing talent, and driving operational excellence. The Director will work directly with clients on various remediation projects and mentor junior staff members with reporting and site visits.

They will be expected to identify new opportunities, address emerging challenges, and bring forward thoughtful solutions within their market. This role is ideal for someone who leads with integrity, models the Company’s core values, and inspires results through collaboration, empowerment, learning, and innovation.

• Conduct and/or oversee multi‑faced 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.
• Manage projects to meet milestones, budgetary limits, deadlines, regulatory requirements, or other performance indicators.
• Actively participate in Account Management and Business Development program to engage with clients and procure work.
• Manage project staff members and subcontractors.
• Oversee and provide technical review of projects in the region.
• Senior review cost proposals and technical assessment reports including ensuring accurate data/summary tables and/or figures.
• Responsible for supporting assigned MD in meeting or exceeding the defined annual budget for the entire practice area/practice division (including revenue generation, overall utilization of assigned resources, and execution of profitable engagement work streams that may be either qualitative or quantitative in nature.)
• Effectively delegate assignments to assigned direct reports, instruct and monitor progress, and ensure work product is consistently high quality.
• Supports MD in monitoring relevant data such as utilization, Accounts Receivable, discretionary spending, etc.
• Develop and foster relationships with decision makers within existing key/strategic accounts and cross‑sell other service areas.
• Meet or exceed defined individual average utilization goals (and incorporating consideration of individual revenue targets) as set forth by company leadership.
• Directly manage, mentor and develop a team of direct reports focused on attracting, placing, and growing the assigned practice team members, with emphasis on creating a team and culture that is empowered to execute.
• Responsible for learning business development methodology and for being active in efforts to individually generate incremental revenue.
• Lead team of assigned staff members to establish and drive towards defined objectives and key…