Senior Environmental Compliance Manager

Do you like working with different project teams in a fast-paced environment? Are you interested in joining an organization focused on making a positive impact? If so, we’d like to talk with you about growing with us.

We are currently seeking a full-time Senior Environmental Compliance Manager to join our team in our Nashville or Knoxville, TN office. This is an excellent opportunity to join and grow EnSafe, getting involved in a variety of projects for a diverse range of clients across the globe.

Candidates must be willing to work out of the Nashville or Knoxville, TN office; relocation assistance is available to meet this expectation.

As Senior Environmental Compliance Manager, you’ll lead and mentor junior compliance staff while partnering with EnSafe’s senior compliance leaders in the Southeast and across the U.S. to guide client programs and drive project outcomes. This will involve client management, proposal development, project management, coordination, and implementation of comprehensive project work. EnSafe’s environmental compliance professionals evaluate industrial facilities' compliance with regulations governing air, water, and waste, assist clients with applying for and complying with environmental permits, and help facilities identify and comply with other environmental obligations.

EnSafe is committed to providing pragmatic, cost-effective strategies to maintain compliance, minimize liability, and improve environmental performance.

Joining our team means immersing yourself in an atmosphere that nurtures creativity, encourages collaboration across all levels, embraces a supportive culture, and facilitates professional development.

In this position, you will:

The successful candidate should have demonstrated the ability to apply local, state, and federal environmental regulations to deliver defensible compliance solutions for commercial, industrial, municipal, and governmental clients while supporting client development and practice growth, with a primary focus on air permitting projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Independently develop, prepare, and submit environmental compliance reports and air permit applications in accordance with local, state, and federal requirements, serving as the technical owner and primary author of deliverables.
• Lead and execute air permitting efforts, including Federal Title V, minor source permits, NSRs, and PBRs, from applicability determination through final agency submittal.
• Develop, run, and interpret air dispersion models, and prepare air toxics assessments and regulatory applicability determinations.
• Ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented to address non‑conformities at client sites.
• Provide project management for environmental compliance and permitting engagements, including technical execution, coordination, and implementation.
• Support and help lead the environmental compliance service line in Tennessee and Texas, including mentoring and supervising junior compliance staff with an emphasis on technical consulting development.

Other responsibilities outside of air permitting may include:

• Perform hands‑on environmental compliance audits at client facilities and provide direct regulatory determinations, corrective actions, and compliance strategies.
• Develop and implement multimedia environmental compliance programs across wastewater, stormwater, hazardous waste, and EPCRA (Tier II, Form R/TRI 312 and 313 reporting).
• Periodic overnight travel to client locations throughout the U.S. to support consulting engagements and compliance activities.
• Develop, prepare, and submit environmental compliance documents such as Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure Plans, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans, annual EPCRA Tier II and TRI reports, Annual Waste Summaries, Industrial Wastewater Discharge Permit Applications, and Semi‑Annual Compliance reports in accordance with local, state, and federal requirements, serving as the technical owner and primary author of deliverables.

Minimum Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in engineering, environmental science, or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant Environmental Compliance experience, with…