Strategic Permitting & Approvals Manager

BoxHouse, INC.; Meridian, Northern (ID, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BoxHouse in Meridian, Idaho is seeking a Permitting and Regulatory Approvals Manager to lead permitting efforts for customer projects across multiple jurisdictions. You will guide plan-submittal requirements, review procedures, and approval standards, coordinating with internal teams.

This role focuses on building relationships with state and local agencies, placing models into pre-approved plan libraries, and developing scalable permitting processes to accelerate project approvals and reduce

Qualifications

• Direct experience working for a state, county, municipal, or other local permitting or building authority is strongly preferred.
• Firsthand knowledge of building-permit intake, plan review, approvals, inspections, or code administration.
• Experience with residential construction, modular housing, manufactured buildings, or commercial permitting.
• Familiarity with building codes, zoning requirements, site-plan review, utility coordination, and related regulatory processes.
• Experience working with architects, engineers, contractors, developers, and government agencies.

Responsibilities

• Research and maintain current permitting requirements for states, counties, municipalities, and other governing bodies where BoxHouse projects are located.
• Prepare, organize, and submit complete building-permit application packages on behalf of BoxHouse customers.
• Coordinate with in-house architects, engineers, CAD designers, project managers, and installation teams to ensure applications satisfy all applicable requirements.
• Review plan sets and supporting documents for completeness before submission.
• Communicate directly with building departments, plan reviewers, inspectors, fire authorities, utilities, and other agencies.
• Manage plan-review comments and coordinate timely responses, revisions, and resubmittals.
• Identify opportunities to place standardized BoxHouse plans in state and local pre-approved plan libraries.
• Develop working relationships with permitting authorities and understand their preferred submission and review processes.
• Track application status, approval timelines, outstanding requirements, fees, and permit conditions.
• Build standardized permitting checklists, document templates, jurisdiction profiles, and internal workflows.
• Identify recurring approval issues and work with the product team to incorporate solutions into future BoxHouse designs.
• Help create a scalable permitting system that supports BoxHouse projects across multiple markets.

Skills

Permitting expertise

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Project coordination

Organizational skills

Education

Construction-related degree (helpful)

Job description

BoxHouse in Meridian, Idaho is seeking a Permitting and Regulatory Approvals Manager to lead permitting efforts for customer projects across multiple jurisdictions. You will guide plan-submittal requirements, review procedures, and approval standards, coordinating with internal teams.

This role focuses on building relationships with state and local agencies, placing models into pre-approved plan libraries, and developing scalable permitting processes to accelerate project approvals and reduce