Principal Environmental Project Manager, Michigan

Location:

This role is a local office-based position. The selected candidate will be integrated into our team working from New Hudson, Michigan. This team will align resources and work closely with established local teams and operations leaders in MI, IL, IN, and OH and greater Great Lakes Region service area for GES.

Why GES?

At GES, our employees are not viewed as assets - they are co-workers and teammates. We bring together talented professionals with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and ideas to help solve our clients’ toughest environmental, compliance, and infrastructure challenges. Our success is founded on a culture of collaboration, where individuality and skills are embraced. With a regional structure and diverse portfolio of projects and clients, GES provides its employees the ability to work on projects best suited to their talents and interests.

After more than 39 years in business, we still have that small firm feel and family atmosphere. What’s different today is our growing reach, resources, service diversity, and impact. Our teams are behind some of the most complex environmental programs in the country, working alongside the most recognizable companies in the world. Our evolution is rooted in the strong personal relationships we build with our clients, our employees, and with the communities we live and work in.

You can expect to work in a friendly environment where you’ll face challenging and rewarding work. Your contributions will make a difference, and your impact will be rewarded. You will have the opportunity to carve out your own career path, while working shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most talented and dedicated professionals in the industry.

Principal Environmental Project Manager, MI

This position requires a B.S. Degree in a related discipline and a minimum of 15+ years’ experience in scoping, costing and execution of small & large-scale site investigation and remediation, environmental compliance, and/or construction projects. The client and regulatory communications and management & leadership of a local team associated with a portfolio of local/regional work are added requirements. Entrepreneurial and strategic vision and associated actions to develop and support a sustainable a business plan is a plus.

The primary focus of this position’s duties and responsibilities is on the technical aspects of diverse environmental projects, primarily in the areas of site investigation, soil and/or groundwater remediation and other environmental service activities. This individual provides principal project support activities, including work plan and proposal preparation, project resource management and scheduling, deadline tracking, budget evaluation and analysis, and technical editing and report finalization. This position also requires a local to regional field presence.

The position requires daily management of project/site assigned staff. Under limited supervision, the Principal Environmental Project Manager plans, executes, supervises, and documents field aspects of highly complex environmental remediation, and construction activities to include but not limited to all aspects of contaminated soil and groundwater treatment.

The individual in this position must be a multi-tasked, detail-oriented team player, and possess excellent skills in verbal and written communications, time management, organizational management, problem solving, decision making, and leadership.

This position will also require supporting client retainage and development including preparation and presentation of technical information to support existing and new project pursuits, professional development and marketplace outreach with professional trade organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees diverse project growth efforts focused on oil and gas pipelines, electrical transmission lines, renewables, permitting services, site characterization & remediation, PFAS and Emerging Contaminant Consulting, Ecological services, including various mitigation credit offset programs, Vapor Intrusion, mitigation, and management, Air Quality, Brownfields services for developers and legal firms, etc.
• Supports program & project management for high visibility / large-scale projects, including project definition, assessment, permitting, data management, and compliance support.

• Manages the development, negotiation, and administration of environmental related contracts.

• Leads bid and proposal preparation for environmental opportunities, working closely with GES' operational and technical leaders applying GES’ financial standards and operational processes to ensure highest quality GES submittals.

• Position requires mentoring and developing both professional and technical staff

Managerial skills are required.

• Periodically reviews field notes for clarity, consistency, and detail in accordance with GES SOP’s and communicate with the department manager to ensure timely turnaround of all field notes to the appropriate project and office staff.

• Develop relationships with clients, subcontractors, and vendors and assists with LPS/HSSE stewardship activities. Provides team mentality, communicates and interacts well with other staff, subcontractors, clients, regulatory agents, or other personnel while in the field and office.

• Interacts with other project support services (technical services, professional, engineering, administrative) and subcontractors to ensure all resources are in place for proper fieldwork execution.
• Acts as the primary author for site work plans, proposals, and reports for highly complex scopes of work, including emergency response activities, and remedial actions.
• Responsibilities may include preparing project status updates, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations.
• Other duties may include evaluating budgets vs. plans, analyzing cost control efficiencies, reviewing and coding of direct project expenses, and reviewing pre-bills and invoices.
• Manages procurement of subcontractors and vendors for completion of project tasks, including subcontractor/vendor bid package development.
• Manages the proper management of project waste materials, including classification, handling, and vendor coordination and applies expert knowledge of pertinent construction permitting.
• Adheres to client contract specifications in all field-related activities and informs project group of those specifications.
• Works in environment that may require lifting up to 40 lbs (basic environmental equipment, sample coolers, etc.)
• Performs work year-round in all types of weather, and may require travel in pickup truck or other company vehicle.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Skills and Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Geology, Environmental Science, Hydrogeology or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 10+ years’ experience in scoping, costing and execution of small & large-scale site investigation, remediation and/or construction projects, and client management.
• Mastery knowledge of applicable standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to all field activities and relevant regulatory programs in Michigan (Ohio and Indiana regulations a plus) and the willingness to learn and master other state regulatory programs as necessary.
• Professional Geologist or Professional Engineer license is a plus along with experience related to MI LUST, TPR, Brownfields, Orphan Well Program, and/or Ecological Studies (NEPA), etc.
• Membership or participation in industry specific professional organizations is preferred.
• Must complete annual refresher OSHA HAZWOPER training, and be able to wear required PPE.
• Must maintain a valid drivers’ license and acceptable driving record

Our comprehensive benefits include: Hybrid workforce, medical, dental, vision, prescription card, 401k, FSA, LTD, STD, New Parent Leave, 529 CollegeBound Fund, Tuition Assistance, Bonus Plan, and more.

Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) believes that diversity and inclusion among our staff is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. At GES, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law.