Environmental Permitting Manager

We are hiring a Environmental Permitting Manager to lead mine permitting and environmental projects across the Western U.S. You will manage assigned projects, including scope, schedule, budget, technical coordination, permitting strategy, deliverables, and day-to-day client communication.

We are looking for someone who understands mine permitting and environmental review well enough to move projects forward, anticipate permitting and technical issues, and develop practical solutions. You will be expected to exercise sound judgment, take ownership of decisions within your area of responsibility, and recognize when an issue requires specialized technical expertise or broader strategic input.

Just as important, we want someone who can build trusted client relationships. You should be approachable, responsive, and comfortable explaining complex permitting and environmental issues in practical terms that help clients make informed decisions.

This role is focused on delivering high-quality projects and developing strong client relationships. It does not carry traditional business development or sales goals.

• Project Management:
  Manage multiple permitting and environmental projects, with responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, deliverables, and client expectations. Develop and maintain project schedules, budgets, work plans, status updates, and client progress reports, and coordinate priorities, decisions, and action items to keep projects moving forward. Identify scope, schedule, budget, technical, and regulatory issues early and develop practical solutions. Communicate project status, upcoming decisions, risks, and resource needs clearly to clients, project teams, and senior staff, and recognize when an issue requires additional technical expertise or broader strategic input.
• Permitting and NEPA:
  Develop permitting strategies, permit matrices, and schedules for mineral exploration, mine development, operations, expansion, reclamation, and closure projects. Evaluate proposed projects and project changes to identify the federal, state, and local permitting and environmental review requirements that apply. Prepare and manage BLM and U.S. Forest Service submittals, including Notices and Plans of Operations, and support the associated NEPA processes. Prepare and manage state and local approvals in Nevada and other western states (such as Arizona, Idaho, and New Mexico), including mine permitting and reclamation, water, air, waste, and other requirements that apply to the project.
  
  Identify permitting dependencies, information gaps, regulatory issues, and schedule risks, and develop recommended paths forward.
• Agency Coordination:
  Coordinate with agencies throughout permitting and environmental review, including tracking comments, developing responses, and resolving outstanding issues. Lead agency meetings and make sure decisions, responsibilities, and action items are clearly communicated and followed through. Represent Sunstone professionally and credibly in agency coordination and site visits.
• Technical Coordination:
  Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include biologists, cultural resource specialists, hydro-geologists, engineers, air quality specialists, reclamation specialists, and other staff and subcontractors. Understand how each technical discipline fits into the overall permitting process, and identify dependencies among project design, baseline studies, technical analyses, environmental review, and permit applications. Understand how mine planning, operations, engineering and design decisions, disturbance, infrastructure, water use, and environmental resources can affect permitting requirements, technical studies, project schedules, and compliance obligations.
  
  Scope, coordinate, and manage subcontractors and outside technical specialists as needed.
• Technical Review:
  Review technical reports, permit applications, and environmental documents for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and suitability before they are provided to clients or agencies. Identify gaps, inconsistencies, unsupported conclusions, and issues that require additional evaluation or technical expertise.
• Client Communication:
  Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for clients on assigned projects, and develop trusted, long-term working relationships. Lead client and project team meetings and make sure decisions, responsibilities, and action items are clearly communicated and followed through. Explain complex permitting,…