Senior Environmental Permitting Engineer - Remote LATAM

Bluelight Consulting, Llc; Santa Fe Capital; On-site; ARS 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel is seeking an Environmental Permits Specialist to manage and monitor environmental and sectoral permits for projects in Argentina, ensuring design and field activities comply with national and provincial regulations, and aligning with client environmental standards.

The role translates legal requirements into verifiable criteria, coordinates with authorities, and maintains a critical permit route that supports project scheduling and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and keeping updated the project permits matrix, identifying competent body, submission requirements, legal deadlines and actual processing deadlines.
• Prepare, review and submit the Environmental Impact Report and its biennial updates, along with the supporting technical documentation required by the provincial mining authority.
• Managing the associated sectoral permits: water use and concession, effluent dumping, emissions into the atmosphere, hazardous waste management, soil movement, intervention of native vegetation and transport of hazardous substances.
• Maintaining technical dialogue with provincial and national enforcement authorities, responding to observations, requests for additional information and audits.
• Timely alert the permits that constitute a critical route and propose sequencing alternatives when a regulatory deadline compromises the schedule.
• Defining the scope of the environmental baselines - air quality, noise, surface and groundwater, soils, flora, fauna, glaciers and periglacial environment, archaeology and socio-economic environment - and technically supervise the consulting firms that execute them.
• Reviewing consultant deliverables verifying methodological sufficiency, representativeness of sampling and traceability of data before its incorporation into the file.
• Evaluating environmental impacts of the project, propose mitigation and compensation measures, and verify that they are reflected in the design criteria and technical specifications.
• Estimating hours, costs and deadlines of environmental studies for their incorporation into the project budget and program.
• Keeping track of environmental commitments derived from the Environmental Impact Statement and the permits granted,

Job description

Bechtel is seeking an Environmental Permits Specialist to manage and monitor environmental and sectoral permits for projects in Argentina, ensuring design and field activities comply with national and provincial regulations, and aligning with client environmental standards.

The role translates legal requirements into verifiable criteria, coordinates with authorities, and maintains a critical permit route that supports project scheduling and regulatory compliance.