Environmental Manager

Grid United is a mission driven company aiming to solve the largest barrier to a cleaner, more reliable grid by developing new long haul transmission lines in the United States. Established in 2021 by proven leaders in the power and renewables industry, Grid United is developing utility-scale electric multi-state transmission projects that will provide long-term economic benefits to communities across the country, provide Americans with improved grid resiliency for our homes and businesses, and cost savings for electricity consumers.

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Grid United has numerous large scale transmissions projects underway and is currently identifying and studying additional prospective projects across North America. These projects often necessitate complex and interdependent environmental permitting processes. In addition, Grid United is committed to tiered resource assessment and application of the mitigation hierarchy during the siting, design, and permitting stages of its projects. This approach may involve novel and/or groundbreaking methods to environmental planning and skillful execution during permitting.

As a result, the Company seeks to expand its Environmental Team with an energetic and experienced Environmental Manager / Senior Environmental Manager to support multiple large scale linear infrastructure projects in active development in the desert southwest.

Working either remotely in Arizona or New Mexico, or out of the company’s office in downtown Houston, Texas, the Environmental Manager or Senior Environmental Manager will collaborate with a team of talented experts. Reporting to Sr. Director of Environmental and working closely with representatives from development and functional teams as well as other representatives on the environmental team, the successful candidate will support routing and siting efforts, support the execution of permitting strategies as well as pre-construction and construction efforts.

Additionally, the ideal candidate will manage external consultants, and coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies and Native American Tribes.

Manage and progress environmental compliance, permitting, pre-construction and construction for multiple major infrastructure projects across the desert southwest and collaborate internally on a wide array of environmental technical and policy matters. More detailed responsibilities include:

• Plan, manage, and monitor environmental aspects of large, multidisciplinary transmission projects with high degree of technical complexity and often novel permitting issues including permit applications, siting, layout planning, scoping and review of environmental studies, State and Federal agency consultations, tribal meetings, and stakeholder engagement.
• Support transmission line routing with subject matter expertise related to environmental sensitivities, policy and permitting requirements, and defensible linear siting best practices
• Manage third party technical and environmental consultants including scoping, directing and reviewing work products
• Support, conduct and/or oversee environmental due diligence efforts to support project identification and development plans, define permitting strategy, and navigate emerging policy
• Support schedule and budget development, and track project performance toward meeting established project goals
• Collaboratively determine technical and environmental study needs, oversee performance of studies and preparation of reports, and interpret and disseminate study results for a wide variety of environmental topics including biological, aquatic,…