Environmental Program Manager - Lands & Permits

PacifiCorp; Utah; On-site; USD 117,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with company match

Life insurance

Tuition Assistance

Mass Transit Pass

Generous PTO

Job summary

PacifiCorp seeks an experienced environmental leader to manage the lands team across Rocky Mountain Power and Pacific Power transmission projects. You will oversee permitting, compliance, and oversight of construction/offline operations and collaborate with T&D to ensure policy adherence and regulatory compliance.

You will guide a multidisciplinary team, ensure permits are in place, manage budgets, and report progress to leadership while coordinating with federal agencies and stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, or other applicable fields or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in environmental/natural resources, preferably related to energy generation and federal agency permitting.
• 7 to 10+ years experience directly related to environmental regulation.
• 3+ years direct people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage Rocky Mountain Power and Pacific Power environmental ‘lands’ team, supporting environmental permitting, compliance, and oversight of transmission, distribution, and substation construction and operations.
• Work directly with Transmission and Distribution (T&D) operations group to ensure compliance with company environmental policies, permits and regulations.
• Communicate regularly with T&D Operations, environmental team, other internal groups, and contractors.
• Coordinate with environmental leadership team on implementation, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Review, understand, and implement environmental permit conditions, and associated company procedures.
• Provide the necessary leadership and support to ensure that all Federal and State permits are in place and complied with.
• Oversee environmental work of company employees and contractors. Ensure work is done accurately, safely, on schedule, on budget, and in compliance with company and regulatory requirements.
• Assist with preparation of Scope of Work documents necessary to obtain contractor work. Assist with invoicing, budget forecasting, and budget reporting.
• Participate in team, public or regulatory agency meetings.
• Work with federal agencies, particularly BLM and U.S. Forest Service, other federal land management agencies, Tribes, state and local natural resource and land management agencies, non-government organizations, private landowners, and other stakeholders as it pertains to T&D Operations activities.
• Support environmental permitting and compliance for wildfire system hardening activities.
• Work internally and with U.S. Forest Service and BLM on development of Operations and Maintenance Plans for power line rights-of-way.
• Oversee team of environmental specialists of different disciplines in different office locations. Provide guidance and mentoring to employees.
• Provide internal weekly, monthly, and other reporting as required.

Job description

PacifiCorp seeks an experienced environmental leader to manage the lands team across Rocky Mountain Power and Pacific Power transmission projects. You will oversee permitting, compliance, and oversight of construction/offline operations and collaborate with T&D to ensure policy adherence and regulatory compliance.

You will guide a multidisciplinary team, ensure permits are in place, manage budgets, and report progress to leadership while coordinating with federal agencies and stakeholders