Natural Resources Project Manager

What you will accomplish:

• As a core member of the Natural Resources Program, you will take a lead and collaborative role in pursuing project opportunities, managing projects and clients, and supervising and mentoring staff, as needed.
  
• Manage project requirements related to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), Clean Water Act (CWA), National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), and other resource planning/permitting, and/or natural resource disciplines relevant in the region.
  
• Partner, supervise and/or prepare requirements related to plan of developments (PODs), NEPA documents, biological field studies, permits, mitigation plans, biological assessments, project monitoring and other deliverables.
  
• Use topographic maps, aerial photographs, GIS, and other maps and tools to determine exact locations of project areas, habitat types, and associated landforms.
  
• Attend and/or present at local, regional and national conferences and forums. Support agency needs during project process.
  

Experience and qualifications for success:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in biology, botany, environmental science, natural resource management, or other related field [required]; Master’s degree [preferred];
• A minimum of 7 years of combined experience managing all aspects of projects, environmental consulting, or ecological studies including developing and implementing budgets, schedules, scopes of work from pre-field tasks to final report preparation;
• Experience managing projects that have cultural and paleontological tasks, preferred;
• Working knowledge of federal, state and/or local regulations (i.e., ESA, BGEPA, NHPA, MBTA, etc.) governing natural resource management, and implementing associated permitting, including preparation of EISs and/or EAs;
• Demonstrated business development success and consulting acumen, including established credibility with federal and state reviewing agencies and clients, as well as success in proposal writing;
• Demonstrated experience in increasing levels of responsibility, including supervising, providing leadership, and mentoring for other professionals;
• Leads large or multiple crews on a variety of project types and sizes, regions, and agencies;
• Possess advanced skills and knowledge in one or more specialty scientific areas (e.g., vegetation ecology, wildlife, fisheries, environmental chemistry, etc.); and
• Experience authoring reports for a variety of project types and sizes, regions, and agencies.