Environmental and Permitting Manager

Company Overview

Blue Energy’s mission is to unlock energy abundance, energy affordability, energy security, and turn-key decarbonization by developing the fastest path to deploying new nuclear MWs at scale. We are utilizing shipyard manufacturing supply chains and techniques from offshore oil and wind to reduce the cost of nuclear plants by over 60% and the manufacturing timeline to 24 months. Blue Energy is a platform technology that makes use of the latest NRC-approved reactors and is in negotiations with existing nuclear and industrial sites, enabling a much faster regulatory pathway to deploy our first unit. With our innovative centralized shipyard manufacturing approach, we can put nuclear power on a cost-reduction learning curve akin to wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries.

As a Environmental and Permitting Manager, you are the asset owner’s representative in the environmental and permitting realm, ensuring the new plant and all pipeline projects meet federal and state environmental, safety, and regulatory requirements while collaboratively working with engineering, construction, operations and business development to ensure all technical aspects of the plant design, construction and execution maximize profits, by decreasing CapEX and OpEx while increasing generation revenue.

Expectations:

• Raise issues and concerns quickly, we strive for a culture where everyone can communicate openly so problems can be resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible. This is as important for technical issues as it is for non-technical and personnel issues. The longer things go “unmentioned”, the longer they “fester” and the more painful they are to resolve.

• Budget and Schedule are important! Everyone, as owners and owners representatives, is ultimately accountable for accomplishing our goals on time and on budget. However, if “Doing it Right” means we need to spend a little more time or money, raise the issue to me and we will discuss the best path forward. It's a balance and we can address all “gray” areas as a team.

• People make mistakes, especially when developing a First of a Kind product. Be open with mistakes of yourself and others, we want to ensure we understand every error, potential error or near miss so that we establish engineered controls or procedural steps to prevent recurrence. These errors, omissions and oversights can be resolved in a professional manner without people fearing reprisal, if we build the culture the right way. We are all responsible for building this kind of working environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the preparation, submission, and management of all necessary environmental and construction permits for the Blue Energy plant, including land use, water, air quality, and waste management permits. Recognizing that a portion of this work will be completed by contracted resources, experience managing significant contracts will be imperative to success.

• Ensure strict adherence to Federal environmental laws, regulations, and standards (e.g., NRC, EPA, state and local authorities), specifically related to large power plant construction, nuclear energy, radiation safety and construction work in coastal, near shore and/or intercoastal waterways.

• Oversee the preparation and review of Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Management Plans (EMPs), ensuring that they address all relevant environmental concerns and mitigation strategies and meet the requirements of the NRC license applications and NEPA processes.

• Coordinate with the Licensing Team and act as the primary liaison between the project team and regulatory agencies, environmental organizations, and community stakeholders. Ensure effective communication and transparency regarding environmental management practices.

• Develop and implement an environmental monitoring and audit program to assess the environmental impact of project activities, including radiation safety, water quality, air emissions, and wildlife impact. Prepare regular compliance reports for regulatory authorities.

• Identify potential environmental risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize the environmental impact of construction and operations, including waste management, water conservation, habitat protection, and emergency response planning.

• Have an in-depth understanding of how all plant systems are designed, operated and will perform in the field. It is your responsibility to understand how everything works, works together and will potentially impact our environmental and permitting risk profile. If you have questions, it’s likely someone else has the same question. Ask the question, get the answers and share the results.

• Work closely with our Engineering and Construction su