Environmental Project Engineer

Environmental Project Engineer; Madrid; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TURN2X is seeking an Environmental Project Engineer to own the environmental workstream across Spain, driving RTB readiness with AI and GIS automation. The role requires coordinating with local authorities and the central technical team in Munich to accelerate site screening and permitting.

You will define permitting strategies for autonomous communities, challenge consultants on deliverables, and ensure lean documentation while maintaining technical rigor and safety.

Qualifications

• Solid knowledge of Spanish environmental and permitting frameworks (EIA, AAi).
• Experience across several autonomous communities with regulatory differences.
• AI-native approach: verify outputs against primary sources and build reusable workflows.

Responsibilities

• Run early-stage environmental and territorial screenings of sites and routings.
• Automate environmental pre-screening workflows using AI and GIS tools.
• Define and own the permitting strategy with a documented milestone plan.
• Challenge consultants on quality, scope and cost of studies and annexes.
• Keep documentation lean by defining necessary level of detail at BoD stage.
• Identify permitting risks early and design mitigations.
• Collaborate with Project Development Managers and central technical team in Munich.

Skills

Environmental permitting knowledge

AI-native workflows

Strong communication

Tools

QGIS

CAD

Job description

Your mission

• Own the environmental workstream of TURN2X's e-Methane and green hydrogen projects across Spain - screening sites and routings before we commit to land, defining the permitting strategy region by region, and bringing every project to Ready-to-Build (RTB) in the shortest possible time, with environmental risks identified and mitigated early.
• Do it as an AI-native engineer: use AI and GIS automation to compress weeks of screening and drafting into days/hours, and build the reusable workflows that let the whole development team move at that speed.

Your Responsibilities

• Run early-stage environmental and territorial screenings of sites and routings (QGIS / Glint Solar based), enabling clear go/no-go decisions before land securing.
• Automate what repeats: build AI- and GIS-supported workflows for environmental pre-screening - flooding, fauna, flora, protected areas, seismic risk, traffic - and turn them into tools the team can run without you.
• Define and own the permitting strategy for each autonomous community, with a documented environmental Gantt of milestones, risks and mitigations per project.
• Challenge our environmental consultants on quality, scope and cost - compensatory measures, the environmental logic behind siting and routing, and the substance of every study and annex before we accept it.
• Keep our documentation lean: define the level of detail permitting genuinely requires and strip out everything that does not move the project forward, starting at Basis of Design (BoD) stage.
• Identify permitting risks early and design the mitigations, including how the project layout affects the licencia urbanística.
• Work hand in hand with our Project Development Managers and with the central technical team in Munich, running several projects in parallel across different regions.

Your profile

• Solid knowledge of Spanish environmental and permitting frameworks (EIA, ideally also AAI for industrial facilities), permitting an industrial plant is a different game from a standard RES project, and you know the difference.
• Experience across several autonomous communities, each with its own regulatory particularities.
• AI-native by default, and critical about it. You already work with AI tools daily, for drafting, research, analysis and screening, you verify every output against primary sources, and you build reusable workflows and agents instead of one-off prompts. You use AI to go faster, never as a substitute for technical judgement: the rigour of the analysis is the part that cannot be automated away.
• Functional command of QGIS and CAD for routings and constraint analyses, and the ability to produce simple, clear drawings and plans for landowners and public administrations.
• Practical experience with environmental measures during construction and with monitoring plans (PVA), not at expert level, but enough to know what the commitments we accept at permitting stage really cost later.
• Proven ability to critically review consultants' deliverables and push back on quality, scope and cost.
• Strong communication skills with authorities, landowners and consultants.
• Structured and autonomous way of working: you prioritise across parallel project streams and report progress clearly.
• Fluent Spanish and professional English.
• Bonus: permitting experience with PtX, hydrogen, biogas or biomethane facilities; scripting and automation of GIS workflows; and comfort in fast-paced, early-stage environments where processes are still being built.

About us

We are TURN2X, a passionate team on the mission to enhance energy security in Europe and tackle 14.5% of global emissions, making a real impact on the future of sustainable energy. We do this by revolutionizing the energy landscape with our cutting-edge technology that produces renewable natural gas from green hydrogen and CO₂. Our solution is CO₂-neutral and seamlessly integrates into the existing 2 million kilometers of gas pipelines, over 1,000 TWh of natural gas storage, and customer infrastructure—without the need for modifications.

With our first commercial plant in Spain and a 2.7 GW project pipeline, TURN2X is well-financed and backed by leading investors in the industry.

Join us and become part of a high-growth, purpose-driven team shaping the future of clean energy!