Senior Environmental Manager, Renewable Energy Projects

Pattern Energy; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 103,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Pattern Energy Group is seeking an Environmental Manager to provide environmental permitting support for wind, solar, storage, and transmission development projects. The role assesses risk, manages permitting, and supports policy work.

You will lead consultants, coordinate regulatory strategies, track evolving rules, and work with agencies, communities, and project teams to keep development on schedule. This position requires a technical undergraduate degree and at least seven years of relevant

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience in environmental permitting, project management, business development, or a related field.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously across different stages of development and adapting to shifting priorities, timelines, and resource constraints.
• Background in environmental and permitting matters, including familiarity with regulatory regimes across varied project locations.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with project developers, management, subject matter experts, consultants, agencies, and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication, organization, critical thinking, and time management skills, with a team-first approach.

Responsibilities

• Manage environmental studies and permitting for wind, solar, storage, and transmission development projects, including coordination of regulatory strategies, schedules, budgets, and deliverables.
• Assess environmental risks for development projects and communicate key risks, constraints, and mitigation recommendations to project teams and management.
• Obtain required environmental permits, approvals, and clearances from local, state, and federal agencies to support project development timelines.
• Supervise project environmental consultants, including managing scopes of work, task orders, schedules, budgets, work quality, and invoice review and approval.
• Conduct environmental due diligence for potential acquisitions and evaluate permitting, environmental, and regulatory considerations that may affect project value or development feasibility.

Skills

Environmental permitting

Project management

Regulatory affairs

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in environmental science or related

Job description

Pattern Energy Group is seeking an Environmental Manager to provide environmental permitting support for wind, solar, storage, and transmission development projects. The role assesses risk, manages permitting, and supports policy work.

You will lead consultants, coordinate regulatory strategies, track evolving rules, and work with agencies, communities, and project teams to keep development on schedule. This position requires a technical undergraduate degree and at least seven years of relevant