Environmental Compliance and Permitting – Engineer – Mining

Environmental Compliance Engineer

Tetra Tech invites you to consider a rewarding opportunity within our Colorado Springs or Lakewood, Colorado offices as an Environmental Compliance Engineer. This position requires the candidate to work in the office regularly with our team for the first 6 months to facilitate integration into projects, form relationships with fellow employees with a range of backgrounds, and more fully and quickly integrate into our team.

After the first 6 months, this position will allow a flexible hybrid work setting and schedule to be worked out with your supervisor.

We are seeking an energetic individual interested in pursuing and supporting a variety of challenging projects. The successful candidate will work closely with Principal and Project Engineers, Scientists, and Project Managers on a variety of mining projects. Duties will include both office work and field work. Technical writing skills and the ability to conduct detailed reviews of permitting obligations and compliance status skills are critical for the successful candidate.

Experience with environmental management at mine sites (including understanding permitting and environmental concerns typical of pits, waste rock dumps, tailings impoundments, heap leach pads, processing facilities, solid and liquid hazardous and non-hazardous waste storage, water management structures and water treatment) is necessary. Experience with environmental permitting in more than three of the following jurisdictions is desired:
Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, or Canada. The position will require some travel, including international travel, to complete site inspections and reconnaissance.

Any candidates interested in this opportunity should apply by the August 16, 2026 deadline.

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In this role the successful candidate will work primarily with our mine environmental permitting, reclamation, and management team, supporting:

• Review and update client permit applications, including collaborating with design teams to develop permitting documentation for active mine sites.
• Review environmental permitting obligations for water use and discharge (both surface and groundwater) for various jurisdictions in the western United States (particularly Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) and internationally.
• Support environmental compliance audits including review of environmental permits, regulations, and work completed to satisfy compliance obligations.
• Develop summaries of permitting obligations for integration into feasibility studies and permit handbook development to support active mine sites, expansions, and new mine development.
• Develop summaries of permitting needs and status for environmental due diligence projects.
• Compare environmental monitoring results (air, water, soil, sediment) to applicable standards and develop conclusions of materiality of findings.
• Review environmental management documents and identify material risks of environmental non-compliance with permit obligations.
• Review project details to identify project components which may required permit modifications.
• Project work will also include supporting active mine and abandoned mine site projects including environmental site inspections.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of a…