Environmental Project Manager; Electrical Transmission & Renewable Energy

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Environmental Services practice seeks an experienced Environmental Project Manager / Environmental Scientist (Electric Transmission and Renewable Energy) to provide senior-level project management, environmental regulatory, and permitting services with a focus on electric transmission, solar, wind, and BESS clients and their projects, particularly in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio. This role is intended for a professional who serves as an internal subject matter expert, applies advanced practical and theoretical environmental knowledge, and works independently under broad guidelines to resolve complex project, regulatory, and client challenges.

The main focus of this position is to manage complex electric transmission and renewable energy projects through environmental assessments, permitting, agency coordination, compliance, and reporting with support and collaboration from a robust team of subject matter experts. The successful candidate will exercise independent judgment, initiative, and in-depth evaluation of technical, regulatory, schedule, budget, and stakeholder factors to address unusual or complex issues.

Technical expertise related to state regulatory filings, environmental science and permitting, data management, quality review, and multidisciplinary reporting is critical to the role to ensure high-quality deliverables and added value to Stantec’s clients.

• Managing complex projects, schedules, staffing plans, scopes, budgets, risks, and change management activities with a high degree of initiative and independence
• Coordinating with clients, stakeholders, regulatory agencies, and multidisciplinary internal project teams to develop practical, science-based solutions
• Representing clients at public hearings, open houses, regulatory agency meetings, and other forums where technical information must be communicated clearly and confidently
• Performing, overseeing, and providing quality review of technical work, including work prepared by other staff and subject matter experts
• Serving as an advisor and mentor to project teams, and providing direct supervision or technical direction to staff as applicable
• Developing project proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and delivery strategies for medium to complex environmental projects
• Supporting marketing, client relationship development, and business development activities by identifying client needs and opportunities to add value

• Identifying and evaluating project-specific environmental constraints, engineering design considerations, regulatory requirements, critical issues, permit strategies, and permit matrices
• Coordinating with agency personnel for consultations, data reviews, pre-application meetings, permit strategy discussions, and issue resolution
• Writing, reviewing, and integrating complex, multidisciplinary technical reports for external clients, regulatory filings, desktop assessments, field surveys, and public-facing documents
• Preparing and reviewing environmental permit applications and supporting documentation for federal, state, and local approvals
• Interpreting complex or ambiguous scientific, regulatory, and project information to make evidence-based recommendations and advance project decisions
• Presenting technical information at public meetings, hearings, open houses, conferences, and agency meetings
• Facilitating successful environmental permitting and compliance for multiple and varied projects while maintaining quality, schedule, budget, and client service expectations
• Additional responsibilities may include coordinating, conducting, and/or leading field work and implementing health, safety, security, and environmental practices during project execution

• Minimum of ten years of related environmental consulting, permitting, regulatory, or project management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and related experience
• Demonstrated experience managing complex electric transmission and renewable energy projects, including electric transmission, wind, solar, battery energy storage, biogas, or related infrastructure projects
• Recognized technical expertise in one or more areas of environmental science, permitting, regulatory strategy, natural resource assessments, routing and siting, environmental compliance, or related disciplines
• Working knowledge of environmental sciences, biology, wildlife science, wetlands, land use, environmental justice, cultural resources, and related technical areas, with the ability to integrate information across disciplines
• Permitting experience with one or more utility regulatory bodies, such as the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Ohio Power Siting Board, North Dakota Public Service Commission, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission, Illinois Commerce Commission, Iowa Utilities…