Senior Regional Environmental Permitting & Compliance Lead

marianaminerals; Utah; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mariana Minerals is seeking a Sr. Regional Permitting and Compliance Environmental Engineer to own the permitting execution and compliance for its U.S. mining, processing, and refining sites.

You will coordinate with federal, state, and local agencies and integrate environmental commitments into design and operations. You will lead NEPA/EA/EIS workstreams, ensure EMS adoption across the portfolio, and help scale the regional permitting function as the portfolio grows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Environmental Engineering, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Geology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of U.S. environmental permitting and compliance experience in mining, energy, or large infrastructure, with demonstrated ownership of agency relationships across multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated familiarity with the multijurisdictional U.S. environmental regulatory framework — local, state, and federal — and ability to navigate overlapping requirements across agencies.
• Direct experience managing NEPA EA/EIS processes, including coordination with BLM and multi-disciplinary consultant teams, through Record of Decision.
• Working knowledge of CAA, CWA, RCRA, ESA, EPCRA, and state/local permitting and compliance programs.
• Experience integrating permitting requirements into FEL 1–3 and detailed design, and implementing or auditing Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
• Strong technical writing, agency negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfort operating in a broad, portfolio-wide role today, with the flexibility to shift into ownership of a defined region as Mariana's project portfolio grows.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute permitting roadmaps across federal, state, and local agencies for all project sites in Mariana's current U.S. portfolio, with scope expected to narrow to a defined region as the portfolio and team grow.
• Manage NEPA EA/EIS workstreams in coordination with BLM and third-party consultants — from scoping and public comment through Record of Decision (ROD) — ensuring mitigation, monitoring, and reporting commitments flow into design and construction plans.
• Integrate permitting requirements into FEL 1–3 and detailed design, working directly with engineering teams to keep environmental commitments on schedule and budget.
• Serve as primary point of contact with federal agencies (BLM, USACE, EPA, USFWS) and state/local agencies across assigned projects.
• Implement and audit Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at project sites across the portfolio, ensuring permit and ROD conditions are embedded in daily operations and management of change (MOC).
• Manage ongoing compliance obligations for air, water, stormwater, waste, and EPCRA across assigned sites, tracking deadlines across overlapping federal, state, and local requirements.

Skills

Technical writing

Agency negotiation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Environmental/Civil/Geology

Job description

Mariana Minerals is seeking a Sr. Regional Permitting and Compliance Environmental Engineer to own the permitting execution and compliance for its U.S. mining, processing, and refining sites.

You will coordinate with federal, state, and local agencies and integrate environmental commitments into design and operations. You will lead NEPA/EA/EIS workstreams, ensure EMS adoption across the portfolio, and help scale the regional permitting function as the portfolio grows.