Environmental Development, Sr Manager

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Divert is a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted through nationwide infrastructure and innovative technologies. Founded in 2007, the company provides an end-to-end solution that leverages data to prevent waste, facilitates edible food recovery to provide to people in need, and transforms unsold food products into renewable energy to power communities. Through this integrated approach to reducing wasted food-Prevent, Provide, Power™-Divert works with customers across the U.S. to reduce wasted food and positively impact people and the environment.

The Senior Manager, Environmental Development leads environmental due diligence, regulatory strategy, and permitting execution across Divert's projects and transactions and serves as the primary internal environmental resource within the Project Delivery organization.

The role supports environmental matters across greenfield and brownfield development, acquisitions, project delivery, commissioning, and transition to operations. Responsibilities include evaluating environmental conditions, liabilities, regulatory requirements, and constraints; developing and executing permitting strategies; managing consultants; engaging directly with regulators; and integrating environmental requirements into project decisions and execution.

This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical judgement, project management, communication, and regulatory advocacy. The successful candidate must be comfortable independently managing a broad range of responsibilities across multiple projects an jurisdictions.

• Lead environmental due diligence for prospective acquisitions, sites, and projects.
• Review environmental site assessments, regulatory records, compliance history, permits, and related technical materials to identify environmental liabilities, constraints, permitting risks, and potential project impacts.
• Determine when additional investigation, technical analysis, consultant support, or legal review is warranted.
• Research and interpret federal, state, and local environmental requirements and develop practical regulatory and permitting strategies.
• Provide clear recommendations regarding environmental risks, alternatives, and implications for decisions, site selection, design, cost, schedule, and operations.

• Own the environmental permitting lifecycle from applicability assessment through permit issuance, modification, and turnover.
• Develop and maintain permit matrices, regulatory assessments, permitting schedules, and critical path requirements.
• Coordinate preparation and submittal of permit applications, technical documentation, and responses to regulatory comments.
• Review regulatory analyses, permit applications, technical memos, consultant work products, and agency correspondence for accuracy, completeness, and regulatory defensibility.
• Maintain sufficient technical understanding of Divert's facilities and processes to critically evaluate consultant recommendations, regulatory requirements, and agency positions.
• Proactively identify environmental and permitting risks that could impact project delivery and drive them toward resolution.

• Scope, direct, and manage environmental consultants and technical specialists.
• Evaluate consultant recommendations and work products and drive accountability for quality, responsiveness, and execution.
• Coordinate environmental matters across Project Delivery, EH&S, Operations, Legal, consultants and other stakeholders.
• Ensure environmental requirements, commitments, permit conditions, and operational constraints are…