Senior NEPA & Environmental Program Lead (DoD)

Tactica Solutions, LLC.; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tactica Solutions LLC is seeking an experienced NEPA Program Manager to lead senior environmental planning, NEPA, and compliance efforts for USASMDC under a SETA contract at Redstone Arsenal, AL. The role focuses on program-wide coordination, risk management, and strategic guidance across multiple projects.

The ideal candidate has extensive NEPA experience, strong leadership, and the ability to translate regulations into actionable plans for military and civilian stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Natural Resources, Planning, Biology, Ecology, or a related scientific or technical discipline.
• Eight or more years of progressively responsible environmental planning, NEPA, or environmental compliance experience, including significant experience supporting Department of War or other Federal programs.
• Three or more years of experience leading, managing, or coordinating complex environmental programs, projects, or multidisciplinary environmental efforts.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple NEPA actions from initial project scoping through completion of required environmental documentation and support to Government decision-making.
• Extensive working knowledge of NEPA processes and documentation, including Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Records of Environmental Consideration, Findings of No Significant Impact, Findings of No Practicable Alternative, and Records of Decision.
• Experience supporting ESA Section 7 consultation and environmental compliance activities associated with RCRA, NHPA, and other applicable environmental statutes and regulations.
• Ability to identify environmental requirements early in project development and assess potential impacts to program cost, schedule, scope, and mission execution.
• Strong program and project management skills, including establishing priorities, managing schedules, identifying dependencies, tracking risks, coordinating stakeholders, and managing multiple simultaneous requirements.
• Ability to translate complex environmental and regulatory requirements into clear recommendations and decision points for senior military and civilian leadership.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing environmental technical documents for accuracy, completeness, regulatory sufficiency, and consistency.
• Strong analytical, organizational, leadership, problem-solving, written communication, briefing, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability and willingness to travel in support of customer requirements, including potential OCONUS travel.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government-issued security clearance at the appropriate level for the duration of the contract Period of Performance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior SETA environmental planning and NEPA program integration lead supporting USASMDC G-4.
• Provide program-level technical assistance, analysis, and recommendations to G-4 leadership regarding environmental requirements, risks, schedules, dependencies, and potential mission impacts.
• Plan, coordinate, track, and oversee multiple concurrent NEPA and environmental compliance actions across the USASMDC enterprise.
• Develop and maintain environmental program schedules, action trackers, milestone plans, risk registers, status reports, and leadership briefings.
• Lead and coordinate preparation, technical review, and quality assurance of NEPA documentation, including Records of Environmental Consideration, Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Biological Assessments, Findings of No Significant Impact, Findings of No Practicable Alternative, Records of Decision, and supporting technical studies.
• Integrate environmental requirements early in facilities, construction, repair, sustainment, logistics, acquisition, and operational planning to reduce schedule and execution risk.
• Advise program managers, engineers, logisticians, planners, contracting personnel, and other stakeholders on environmental documentation requirements and potential impacts to cost, schedule, scope, and mission execution.
• Coordinate environmental planning activities with appropriate USASMDC organizations, Army environmental offices, installation personnel, legal counsel, engineering organizations, project managers, regulators, and other Federal, State, local, and host-nation stakeholders, as applicable.
• Support compliance activities associated with NEPA, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), USAKA Environmental Standards, and other applicable environmental requirements.
• Oversee and support environmental compliance inspections and assessments, including hazardous materials, hazardous waste, air, water, spill prevention and response, recordkeeping, and related requirements.
• Identify environmental deficiencies, compliance risks, corrective actions, and unresolved issues and track them through resolution.
• Review environmental studies, reports, plans, scopes of work, acquisition documents, and contractor deliverables for technical quality, completeness, and consistency.
• Establish standardized environmental planning processes, templates, workflows, quality-control procedures, and recurring program reporting.
• Provide technical leadership, task coordination, mentoring, and workload prioritization for assigned environmental SETA personnel and subcontractor support.
• Prepare and present executive-level briefings, decision papers, program status reports, risk assessments, and recommendations to USASMDC leadership.
• Travel to CONUS and OCONUS locations, up to 30% as required to support environmental assessments, inspections, project planning, and stakeholder coordination.

Skills

NEPA knowledge

Program management

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science/related field

Job description

Tactica Solutions LLC is seeking an experienced NEPA Program Manager to lead senior environmental planning, NEPA, and compliance efforts for USASMDC under a SETA contract at Redstone Arsenal, AL. The role focuses on program-wide coordination, risk management, and strategic guidance across multiple projects.

The ideal candidate has extensive NEPA experience, strong leadership, and the ability to translate regulations into actionable plans for military and civilian stakeholders.