Senior Project Manager
Listed on 2026-06-26
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Engineering
Environmental Engineer, Environmental Compliance, Environmental/ Urban Planning, Water Management
Overview
TRC is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join its growing Planning, Permitting, and Licensing practice in Massachusetts and other New England states. This position requires a well‑rounded, interdisciplinary, technical, and regulatory specialist who will provide environmental permitting project leadership for public and private sector energy and transportation clients and projects. Typical work will include business development, professional networking, proposal development, project management, and providing environmental permitting technical services.
The successful candidate will be entrusted with managing and leading projects, conducting studies related to their technical discipline to meet federal, state, and local environmental permitting requirements.
The successful individual will be a client‑facing technical leader with in‑depth knowledge pertaining to the permitting of energy and transportation infrastructure projects and advancing such projects through local, state, and federal government approval processes for large, complex projects. This individual should demonstrate experience leading and managing permitting work scopes for projects associated with energy and/or transportation infrastructure projects and should be able to guide the agencies and TRC project partners through the environmental processes to meet applicable laws and regulations and successfully achieve project design goals.
The successful candidate can work from our offices in Lowell, MA, Waltham, MA, Boston, MA, or a surrounding state near a TRC office.
Responsibilities- Engage as a client‑facing technical leader with in‑depth knowledge of permitting energy and/or transportation infrastructure projects and advancing such projects through the local, state, and federal government approval process. Interact directly with the agencies/clients as TRC’s environmental permitting subject matter expert.
- Provide environmental permitting expertise for federal, state, and local environmental permitting for multidisciplinary energy and transportation infrastructure projects.
- Support marketing and business development efforts and represent TRC at industry functions.
- Direct multidisciplinary teams including subconsultants in completing environmental reviews for small, medium, and large‑scale projects.
- Lead and manage the preparation of project‑related environmental documentation (e.g., initial studies, environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, ENFs, EIRs, categorical exclusions and exemptions, and negative declarations).
- Mentor and train junior to mid‑level staff that will support the successful candidate in implementing the work.
- Maintain an understanding of emerging regulations and industry requirements.
- Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in environmental science/engineering, environmental permitting, environmental policy, natural resources, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in environmental permitting specific to energy and/or transportation infrastructure projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing environmental permitting projects and developing scopes of work for energy and/or transportation infrastructure and related projects, including the ability to guide agencies/clients through the environmental processes required to meet applicable environmental compliance and permitting laws and regulations.
- The ability to apply environmental permitting in support of applicable state and federal regulatory agencies to projects for clients that may include State DOTs, State DEPs, EPA, FERC, BOEM, USDOT, USACE, and USFWS.
- Expertise in one of the following is strongly preferred:
Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, or Clean Air Act. - Demonstrated experience preparing technical documents to advance NEPA compliance (EAs, FONSI, scoping letters, Section 7/Section 106 consultation letters, schedules).
- Knowledge of local, regional, and state/local permitting, and zoning processes (Massachusetts experience preferred).
- AICP certification is preferred but not required.
- Demonstrated experience managing scopes, schedules, and budgets for a variety…
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