Environmental Dept Lead, Charlotte - Employee-Owned

BUNNELL LAMMONS ENGINEERING; North Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

BUNNELL LAMMONS ENGINEERING seeks a Department Manager to lead Environmental Due Diligence and Remediation Services in the Charlotte area. You will direct staff, manage projects end-to-end, and drive client relationships within BLE's growing environmental practice.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, strategic planning, and ownership potential within an employee-owned firm, with a focus on safety, quality, and client service excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, or a related technical discipline required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain corporate and professional standards, ethics, and regulatory compliance throughout the department.
• Establish departmental priorities, workflows, and best practices that promote technical quality, consistency, accountability, efficiency, and profitability.
• Oversee environmental due diligence, site investigation, remediation, and regulatory-closure projects from scoping through field investigation, technical evaluation, reporting, implementation, and closure, ensuring appropriate staffing, technical approach, schedule, budget, and client communication.
• Plan and coordinate project activities, including regulatory and historical research, site reconnaissance, drilling and sampling, laboratory analyses, field personnel, subcontractors, remediation contractors, equipment, and schedules.
• Guide environmental data interpretation, conceptual site-model development, identification of data gaps, evaluation of remedial alternatives, regulatory coordination, and development of practical, cost-effective cleanup and closure strategies.
• Lead QA/QC, review proposals, work plans, reports, regulatory submittals, and other technical deliverables, serve as final reviewer where authorized, and provide technical guidance in resolving complex environmental challenges.
• Assess staffing needs and lead recruiting and candidate selection in collaboration with Human Resources and BLE leadership.
• Develop, mentor, and retain a high-performing team through clear expectations, coaching, performance management, professional development, and succession planning.
• Manage department financial performance, budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, and progress toward revenue, profitability, utilization, backlog, and other agreed targets.
• Oversee project and contract financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and implement corrective actions when needed.
• Develop trusted client relationships through responsive communication, reliable delivery, technical credibility, and proactive problem solving.
• Partner with the Charlotte Branch Manager, business development personnel, and BLE leadership to identify target clients and opportunities and support growth strategies.
• Lead the technical aspects of major pursuits, proposals, interviews, scopes, fees, risk evaluation, and project-team selection.
• Expand existing client relationships, introduce complementary BLE services, and represent BLE selectively at client and industry events.
• Develop the department’s long-term strategy, annual business plan, and performance objectives with the Charlotte Branch Manager and BLE leadership; track progress and adjust as needed.
• Evaluate market trends and client needs to identify opportunities for innovation, service expansion, and long-term growth.
• Learn BLE’s standards, systems, technical resources, and Charlotte strategy while establishing strong working relationships across the firm.
• Assess immediate staffing, technical, field-investigation, regulatory-coordination, and project-delivery needs; develop a practical implementation plan and begin assuming departmental responsibility.
• Operate a dependable environmental department that delivers accurate due diligence assessments, well-planned investigations, practical remediation and regulatory-closure strategies, timely reports and submittals, responsive client service, and effective project management.
• Demonstrate measurable progress toward agreed revenue, backlog, utilization, profitability, staffing, and operational objectives while developing repeat client relationships.
• Build a collaborative, accountable team with appropriate technical qualifications, training, and capacity to support continued growth.
• Build BLE as a trusted environmental services provider within the Charlotte market.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Regulatory knowledge

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, or related technical discipline

PE or PG license in NC preferred

RSM/REM/CHMM certifications encouraged

8+ years environmental consulting experience

Job description

BUNNELL LAMMONS ENGINEERING seeks a Department Manager to lead Environmental Due Diligence and Remediation Services in the Charlotte area. You will direct staff, manage projects end-to-end, and drive client relationships within BLE's growing environmental practice.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, strategic planning, and ownership potential within an employee-owned firm, with a focus on safety, quality, and client service excellence.