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Job Description
Responsible for evaluating federal, state, and local environmental permitting requirements, and gaining required permits, specifically sediment and erosion control/stormwater preparation plans (SWPPP) and stormwater permitting for transmission capital project work concerning regulated electric transmission substations and lines.
Responsibilities Include:
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Environmental Specialist SME
Raleigh, NC 27601 US
Posted: 03/20/2023
2023-03-20
2023-04-30
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Environmental
Job Number: 547348
Country: United States
Is job remote?: No
Job Description
Job Description
Responsible for evaluating federal, state, and local environmental permitting requirements, and gaining required permits, specifically sediment and erosion control/stormwater preparation plans (SWPPP) and stormwater permitting for transmission capital project work concerning regulated electric transmission substations and lines.
Responsibilities Include:
- Responsible for providing functional direction in preparing and obtaining environmental, erosion control / stormwater, and construction permits for federal, state, and local regulatory agencies
- Provide compliance assurance support to the Transmission Construction team that ongoing projects are in compliance with federal, state and local regulations.
- Serve on project teams, attend meetings and site visits, and develop permitting scope and schedule for variety of projects.
- Maintain comprehensive knowledge of permitting regulations and compliance requirements and their impact to Transmission projects.
- Work with minimal supervision to determine and develop approaches to design and permitting issues.
- Serves as environmental permitting expert for capital
- Transmission projects and collaborate with multiple work groups to provide specialized technical design expertise and judgment to resolve complex permitting issues.
- Maintain project schedules and accountability for meeting specified schedules for permitting tasks.
- Track project schedules and tasks.
- Closeout of permits, including coordination with agencies, once construction is complete.
- Develop processes, find efficiencies / improvements, and maintain appropriate permit records.
- Develop processes and maintain appropriate permit records as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in engineering, science or other related field of study
- Minimum of 8 years of experience
- Proficient in obtaining local, state, and federal environmental permits including erosion and sediment & erosion control plans and Army Corps of Engineers US 404/401
- permits.
- Knowledge AutoCAD Civil 3D and ArcGIS
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent negotiating skills with regulators and the public regarding the environmental permitting of land development projects
- Ten years of experience supporting site civil and/or land development environmental permitting within multiple regulatory jurisdictions.
- Professional certification/ license (i.e. CPESC, QEP, PWS.)
- Demonstrate ability to successfully influence outcome with a high level of collaboration.
- Substantial experience gaining environmental land development permits in North and South Carolina
- Experience working for an electric utility
- Professional certification/ license (i.e. CPESC, QEP, PWS, Professional Engineer, Professional Landscape Architect.)
- Demonstrate ability to successfully influence outcome with a high level of collaboration.
- Experience supporting and managing land-development projects and/or linear construction projects.
- Experience obtaining regulatory approvals from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and NC DEQ/ SC DHEC, with working knowledge of U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and State Historic Preservation Officer permitting requirements.
- Experience preparing erosion control plan drawings, stormwater permits, and obtaining plan approval from NC DEQ/ SC DHEC.
- Experience obtaining floodplain /floodway permits