ERM is seeking a Managing Consultant, Sustainable Operations consultant to join our growing Sustainable Operations practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In this role, you will be a key contributor to a team delivering ERM’s sustainable operations business. ERM delivers a wide range of services including implementing decarbonization strategies, decarbonization strategy development, creation of Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon inventories, policy and regulatory analysis, target setting, and benchmarking. We help clients, including tech companies, energy companies, electric and natural gas utilities, and financial institutions, develop and implement sustainability and climate change programs across a broad range of industry sectors and contribute to climate, clean energy, and clean transportation policy development.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional looking to play a key role working with an expert consulting team on leading-edge sustainable operations projects for Fortune 500 and privately held clients. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Managing Clients and Projects

• Demonstrates expertise in the evaluation of tech sector and/or transportation GHG emissions.

• Strong expertise in:

  • Clean energy procurement, standards, and strategy

  • Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) clean energy procurement policy, management, and tracking

  • Non-CA energy procurement, management and tracking

  • Greenhouse gas calculations and reporting, including life-cycle analysis

  • Air quality analysis

  • Developing environmental standards for fleet partners

• Advises and manages climate-related projects including the design and development of GHG inventories (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) analysis of emission reduction levers (e.g. energy efficiency measures, renewable energy, decarbonized fuels), and strategic policy assessment and design.

• Supports development of climate change strategy, action planning, and/or modeling with regards to mandatory or voluntary drivers.

• Builds strong and trusted relationships with clients and/or business partners.

• Thinks strategically in order to influence decision-makers and outcomes.

• Distills complexity from detail to effectively coach colleagues to deliver high-quality outputs.

• Demonstrates strong project management skills and oversight through the project lifecycle, including scoping, budget and delivery.

• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, excellent writing and presentation skills, and a mastery of impactful client communication.

Teamwork and Organization

• Demonstrates strong people skills; particularly the ability to work on multidisciplinary teams.

• Mentors and delegates work to junior staff to effectively and efficiently engage them to deliver client work products.

• Identifies, evaluates, cultivates and manages partnerships and relationships with clients, external stakeholders and key opinion leaders.

• Effectively collaborates internally to bring our services to existing clients.

• Enhances ERM’s capability to support sales and delivery of sustainable operations and climate change services.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree required in environmental policy.

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in a related field, such as energy, renewables, or the tech sector.

• Be open to being seconded fulltime at a client site for a year or more.

• Ability to travel up to 50% time in the San Francisco Bay Area and 10% time outside of the Bay Area.

• Strong with calculations and spreadsheets, especially GHG emission calculations. 

• A thorough understanding of technical, economic, policy and market challenges and opportunities associated with the low carbon energy transition.

• Attention to detail and commitment to deliver high-quality work products.

• Demonstrated project management and leadership skills.

• Structured and effective communicator that can facilitate effective client engagements.

• Enthusiasm, initiative, flexibility, and a desire to work in a growing team.

• Willingness to work on a variety of clients and projects beyond what is listed above.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of experience in sustainability and/or renewables.

For the Managing Consultant, Sustainable Operations position, we anticipate the annual base pay of $95,868 – $110,000 USD.  An employee’s pay position within this range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certific