Environmental Project Manager

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc; Moon Township (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-scale gym

Café serving breakfast & lunch

Recreation rooms

Employee stock ownership plan

Performance bonus

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) seeks an Environmental Senior Project Manager/Principal in the Pittsburgh, PA area to lead client management, teams and business development.

You will guide environmental projects from assessment through reporting, coordinate budgets, QA, and safety compliance, and collaborate with regulators and contractors. You will mentor staff, support career development, and benefit from a flexible hybrid schedule, performance bonuses, and an employee stock

Qualifications

• . 15+ years experience in environmental consulting with min 10 years in project management.
• . PE or PG is a plus
• . Thorough understanding of state and federal environmental regulations (RCRA, Act 2, CERCLA, CWA)
• . Experience in site assessment, remediation, data interpretation and client communication
• . Experience supervising staff, managing projects, budgets and schedules
• . Experience in proposal development and client management
• . Established clients in Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Mining, Power, Public Sector, Waste Management, or Manufacturing
• . Groundwater modeling experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Manage current clients and develop new business
• Lead project teams delivering environmental services (assessments, investigations, remediation, permitting, compliance)
• Provide senior direction and QA reviews on projects
• Develop proposals and project budgets; ensure safety policy compliance
• Oversee staff, project financials, subcontractors; data evaluation and reporting
• Interact directly with clients, laboratories, regulators and contractors
• Support professional development and mentoring of staff
• Drive business development and client relationship building
• Develop and maintain established client contacts across markets

Skills

Senior project leadership

Client management

Budgeting & cost control

Team supervision

Proposal development

Regulatory interpretation

Business development

Groundwater modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Science, or related field

Job description

Overview

As an Environmental Senior Project Manager/Principal at Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC), in our Pittsburgh, PA offices, you will be responsible for managing current clients and developing new business. You will manage project teams tasked with providing a variety of environmental services to our clients, such as environmental assessments, subsurface investigations, soil and water remediation projects, and environmental permitting and compliance. You will provide senior direction on projects for real estate, manufacturing, public sector, oil and gas, electric power generation/transmission, and/or waste management clients and will provide quality assurance reviews of work products produced by others. You will be directly responsible for developing proposals and project budgets; ensuring compliance with CEC’s safety policies; managing technical staff, project financials, and subcontractors; performing quality assurance duties and project-related administrative tasks; performing data evaluation and interpretation; preparing reports; and driving business development efforts. In this role, you will directly interact with clients, contractors, laboratories, and regulators.

Senior Project Managers/Principals at CEC partner with management to mentor and assist in the professional development of staff, including the completion of annual performance reviews and assisting staff with the establishment of professional development goals. Concurrently, management will work with you to support your individual career goals through a variety of professional development and mentoring activities aimed at developing the project management, leadership, and business development skills needed to succeed and grow your career at CEC.

At CEC, our employees enjoy a flexible/hybrid work schedule. Our comprehensive benefits package includes performance-based bonus recognition as well as participation in our employee stock ownership program. Additionally, we conduct mid-year professional development and end-of-year performance reviews and provide goal-setting opportunities.

Endless perks are available to employees at CEC! Our office boasts a full-scale gym, café serving breakfast and lunch, and recreation rooms—creating the perfect balance of wellness and productivity. Throughout the year, employees enjoy ping pong, pool, cornhole, and pickleball tournaments as well as the annual summer picnic, themed happy hours, and fun team building activities including go-kart racing and curling! We also understand the importance of reaching beyond the office and giving back to the community—CEC employees volunteer for trail workdays to enhance local parks, maintain a CEC-designed pollinator garden for our office campus, and organize an annual charity golf tournament. At CEC Pittsburgh, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of connection, collaboration, and growth within the office and in our community.

Applicants will have an option to sit in either our Moon Township or Monroeville office locations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience in environmental consulting, with minimum of 10 years of experience in Project Management
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering, Geology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Science, or related field
• Professional Engineering License (P.E.) or Professional Geologist (PG) is a plus
• Thorough understanding of state and federal environmental regulations (e.g., RCRA, Act 2, CERCLA, CWA, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of environmental site assessment and remediation, and ability to interpret data, communicate findings from site assessment activities to clients, and make recommendations relevant to project objectives
• Demonstrated experience managing projects, budgeting and performing cost control, and achieving deadlines
• Demonstrated experience supervising technical staff
• Experience in proposal development (scope of service, budget and schedule), and demonstrated ability to manage projects safely and efficiently
• Participation in both client- and professional development-based organizations
• Established clients/contacts in the Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Mining, Power, Public Sector, Waste Management, and/or Manufacturing markets
• Demonstrated business development and client management experience required
• Groundwater modeling experience a plus

About Us

We have experts! CEC is consistently ranked as aTop 500 Design Firm and Top 200 Environmental Firm by Engineering News-Record. We are looking for people who enjoy using their education and experience to solve difficult technical problems and work on interesting projects. You can accomplish this while working with a team of professionals who are equally motivated to provide high levels of service to our clients and to teach you along the way.

We have support! We have a variety of Employee Resource Groups, including CEC Community – focused on giving back to the communities in which we work; CEC Ignite – focused on helping professionals early in their careers to develop their pathway; CEC iDEA – focused on inclusion, diversity, equality, and acceptance; and CEC Women – focused on creating internal and external opportunities for women to network and leverage professional experience!

We care about our people! People and Culture are two of the five elements of our strategic plan. When you care about your people, they will want to grow a career with you – that is our goal. CEC offers you a small-firm work environment with large-firm opportunities. Not only will we help you develop professionally, but we will also provide an opportunity to become an owner of the firm and share in its success.

CEC offers a matching 401(k); profit sharing; a performance bonus; company stock; medical, dental, and vision insurance; short and long-term disability; tuition assistance; professional development; and work-life balance.

CEC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.