Regional Environmental Manager

Barge Design; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Barge Design Solutions is seeking a Regional Environmental Manager to lead and grow the Environmental & Natural Resources team across Florida and the Southeast. This senior role coordinates staffing on projects, ensures utilization and profitability, and reports to the ENR Director while fostering staff development and high-quality deliverables.

The candidate should have 10+ years in environmental permitting and technical writing, strong leadership, and travel readiness (25–50%).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in applicable field; Master’s preferred.
• Five-plus years of staff management experience.
• Ten-plus years in technical writing and field efforts including environmental permitting and mitigation banking/restoration in Southeast.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative team atmosphere with engineers, scientists, and admins.
• Light travel 25–50% is required.
• Valid driver’s license with clean record; background check.
• Employment contingent on background check.

Responsibilities

• Provide Senior level leadership and review; manage multiple staff across Southeast.
• Grow and support a multidisciplinary environmental team (permitting, wetlands, water quality, energy, DOT, coastal resiliency).
• Manage staff scheduling to meet billable rate goals.
• Mentor staff and promote high-quality deliverables and safety.
• Prepare technical reports and regulatory documents; provide final technical reviews.
• Manage local subcontractors and assist with proposals, scope and fees.
• Collaborate with project managers on client communication, budgets, schedules and quality.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop future staff; build client relationships.

Skills

Staff management

Leadership

Client communication

Environmental permits

Regulatory knowledge

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in biology/ecology/environmental science/policy/engineering

Master's degree preferred

Job description

What We're Looking For:

Barge Design Solutions is currently seeking a Regional Environmental Manager in the Environmental & Natural Resources division at our Gainesville, FL, Tampa, FL or Jacksonville, FL office location(s). This position will be responsible for managing and growing our environmental resources team in Florida and throughout the Southeast. This role is a technical discipline manager or manager of multiple market practice areas and coordinates work with project managers to assign technical resources on projects in a manner that positively impacts the business and employee experience. This role is responsible for ensuring direct reports' utilization and billable rates are acceptable. Work at this level is characterized also by working on projects with some complex features or portions of larger conventional projects. This role functions as a Senior Scientist on projects as well as the technical discipline manager or manager of multiple practice areas. This position will report to the Director of Environmental & Natural Resources (ENR) and will be highly visible in a company that prefers to promote from within whenever possible. The optimal candidate will help develop this department with excellent staff management, communication, organizational, and technical skills. There is a strong career path for this position and Barge provides great future opportunities and career development.

Responsibilities

• Provide Senior level leadership and review. Effectively manage and schedule multiple staff in several locations across the Southeast while collaborating with peers in other states across Barge’s footprint. Coordinate staff and assign tasks to meet milestones and deadlines.
• Support and grow a multidisciplinary team to provide environmental services including but not limited to environmental permitting, wetland mitigation banking, species banking, water quality project design and implementation, energy sector projects, DOT sector projects, coastal resiliency, land management, wetland delineations and jurisdictional determinations, and habitat assessments.
• Manage and adjust staff scheduling to meet ENR Center’s billable rate goals.
• Efficiently identify issues and problem-solve to avoid delays. Mentor staff and promote culture of high expectations of quality deliverables, safety, accountability, and a positive and energetic working environment.
• Prepare technical reports and other environmental regulatory compliance documents.
• Provide final technical review of reports, permit application documents, and databases.
• Manage local subcontractors on large projects where local teaming is required.
• Assist with the development of proposal scope and fees.
• Collaborate with project managers to facilitate project completion including client communication, staff/equipment management, budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Collaborate with the Director and team to recruit, onboard, and professionally develop future staff.
• Work to reduce department projects costs to drive competitive status.
• Develop and build positive relationships with clients, direct reports, officials, contractors, and others.
• Manage staffing resources to complete current and future workloads across the Southeast with a focus in Florida.
• People Skills: Manage a team of employees. Provide talent management responsibilities for a group of individuals including but not limited to selection, development, and coaching for improvement. May recommend terminations/separations. Mentor other professionals.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in applicable field such as biology, ecology, environmental science/policy, environmental engineering, natural resources, or a closely related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
• Five-plus years of experience in staff management is preferred.
• Ten-plus years of experience in technical writing and field efforts including environmental permitting and mitigation banking/restoration projects in the Southeast.
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced-collaborative team atmosphere with an established group of engineers, scientists, and administrative staff.
• Light travel (25-50%) is required.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license with a clean driving record (no recent accidents, DUIs, or major traffic violations).
• Walk, sit, and stand. Occasionally reach with hands, stoop, kneel, or crouch. Occasionally climb 25-30 feet. Occasionally lift up to 40 lbs. Visual acuity sufficient to read alpha/ numeric symbols for computation and design.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 550+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
  
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
  
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.
  

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled