Managing Consultant, Air Quality and Environmental Compliance

ERM is seeking a Managing Consultant, Air Quality and Environmental Compliance to join our Ewing, NJ office and specialize in the Air Quality permitting, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting service areas, and contribute to our nationwide consulting team. In this role, you will provide senior project management and senior technical leadership and QA/QC review on New Jersey air permitting, EPCRA TRI/Tier II calculation/reporting portfolios, as well as other EHS compliance projects and compliance assurance programs for clients locally, nationally, and internationally. This is an excellent career opportunity to work with an expert consulting team and center of excellence on challenging environmental reporting and management projects for large industrial and global clients. Access to ERM's national EHS Management Systems & Compliance experts also provides knowledge sharing of best practices across the industry and ongoing learning opportunities for our team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage strategic air permits and compliance assurance programs for a variety of industrial clients with complex technical/regulatory issues.  Work closely with clients and develop strong relationships to understand specific processes and develop a permitting and compliance strategy to help clients maintain maximum operating flexibility. Achieve client’s expectations for scope, budget, schedule, and quality.
• Interact with local regulators to steward permit application review and issuance.
• Effectively manage project teams across the Region, including appropriately delegating project assignments to project teams and mentoring junior staff.
• Work in a collaborative team environment to support the on-going growth and development of ERM’s EPCRA Reporting Program and Portfolio.
• Provide regulatory interpretation and guidance on complex TRI applicability, calculation and reporting issues to the ERM EPCRA team and clients.
• Perform complex facility operational and EHS data analysis and systematic organization/clean-up of large data sets and data manipulation in support of threshold and release calculation preparation.
• Manage multiple large-scale projects and/or reporting programs within scope/budget/schedule expectations and ensure quality standards on project deliverables.
• Provide final QA/QC review of a portfolio of detailed emissions, EPCRA, and TRI threshold and release calculations for multiple industry sectors, including complex chemical plants and oil & gas refineries.
• Ensure on-time quality delivery of calculations and reports.
• Provide environmental compliance support to clients, including on-site assistance as needed.
• Develop and expand client relationships that generate repeat business to grow ERM’s EHS Sustainable Operations practice.
• Prepare technical proposals and participate in business development with existing clients and identified leads.
• Appropriately delegate project assignments to project teams and mentor junior staff.
• Build strong collaborative relationships with other ERM employees.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in environmental or chemical engineering, chemistry, environmental science, or related discipline. Or equivalent experience.
• Experienced in reading and understanding chemical nomenclature, chemical reactions and performing stoichiometric conversions, reading SDSs and identifying key chemicals mandatory.
• Extensive experience preparing and QA/QC reviewing EPCRA Tier II/TRI threshold and release calculations for reporting required and experience auditing Tier II/TRI calculations/programs. Attention to detail and patience are mandatory for these tasks.
• Expertise with EPA and State environmental regulations, guidance documents, Q&A and interpretation of information in these data sets in relation to client situations, along with a commitment to continue growth in regulatory understanding.
• Experience in air release calculations (emissions factors, emissions controls, etc.) would be preferred.
• 4+ years of EHS consulting experience in manufacturing, oil & gas, power, mining, chemical sectors with exposure to a variety of manufacturing/production environments.
• Strong MS Office computer skills; advanced understanding of Excel mandatory; PowerPoint, PowerBI, and Access desired.