Senior Environmental Health Specialist - PM Track

Job Description

About the Role

The Senior Environmental Health Specialist – PM Track, based in Chicago, IL, serves as a bridge between technical fieldwork and project leadership. This role is built for an experienced environmental health, industrial hygiene, or EHS professional who is ready to grow into independent project management—gaining hands-on exposure to client engagement, proposal development, budgeting, scheduling, and report preparation while continuing to apply deep technical expertise in the field.

You will work alongside senior Project Managers on projects spanning asbestos, lead, mold, industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, and broader Environmental Health & Safety disciplines. A significant portion of the role may involve asbestos-related fieldwork, including site surveys, abatement oversight, construction monitoring, documentation, and support for regulatory-compliance activities.

On the ground, you will conduct site surveys and inspections, oversee abatement activities, and monitor job sites for safety and regulatory compliance. Behind the scenes, you will contribute to the full project lifecycle—from scoping and proposals to final deliverables, invoicing, and client follow-up.

This is a role for someone who thrives in both a hard hat and a client meeting and is eager to develop the leadership skills to run complex environmental health and EHS projects independently.

Responsibilities

Operational and Project Coordination

• Attend job walks, pre-construction meetings, project meetings, and client meetings.
• Assist in preparing proposals, project budgets, scopes of work, schedules, and deliverables.
• Review project scope and help define work plans, milestones, staffing needs, and client expectations.
• Respond to client inquiries with professionalism, responsiveness, and technical knowledge.
• Review project drawings, plans, specifications, and applicable project documentation.
• Open new projects, including intake forms, scheduling, staff assignments, and project setup.
• Monitor project budgets, staff activity, quality, scope, turnaround times, billing rates, and client interactions.
• Track project milestones and communicate project-status updates to internal teams and clients.
• Review staff time entries for accuracy and support timely project administration.
• Verify laboratory turnaround times and work-in-progress charges.
• Coordinate equipment needs, including rental, borrowing, selection, calibration, and readiness.
• Audit work-in-progress charges weekly and flag discrepancies or issues.
• Prepare and review project reports, client deliverables, and project documentation.
• Follow invoicing procedures and support billing and collections activities, as needed.
• Enter time, expenses, milestones, and project updates in Clearview.
• Maintain organized and complete electronic project files.
• Set and track personal operational and professional-development goals with your supervisor.

Field and Technical Responsibilities

• Conduct environmental health field investigations, surveys, inspections, assessments, and monitoring activities.
• Support asbestos-related projects through site surveys, inspections, abatement oversight, work-practice monitoring, field documentation, and coordination with clients, contractors, and laboratories, as assigned.
• Monitor active job sites for safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and adherence to project scope.
• Assist with lead, mold, industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, and other EHS-related projects, based on project needs and qualifications.
• Verify and document equipment calibration and maintain accurate field records.
• Maintain required training, certifications, and technical qualifications applicable to assigned work.
• Follow all FACS, client-site, and applicable safety,…