Senior Lead, Electric Transmission Line Siting

🕒 May 1

🦌 Connecticut, Illinois, +9 more states – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $110k - $160.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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ERM

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

ERM is a global leader in sustainability consulting, dedicated to helping businesses tackle their most pressing sustainability challenges. With expertise across various sectors, including chemical, financial services, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy, ERM provides solutions tailored to ensure compliance with ESG regulations, promote resource efficiency, and support decarbonization efforts. Their services encompass areas like carbon markets, clean energy, health and safety, and environmental management, enabling clients to integrate sustainability into their core operations and strategies.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee electric transmission routing and siting studies, including alternatives development, impact analysis, and state siting authority filings • Manage multiple electric transmission line projects to meet scope, budget, schedule, and quality expectations • Coordinate and direct subject matter experts across environmental, land use, engineering, and stakeholder engagement disciplines • Review and guide technical reports, routing analyses, siting applications, and regulatory filings • Represent ERM and clients in agency meetings, stakeholder briefings, and public open houses • Prepare and deliver expert witness testimony or technical support for evidentiary hearings as needed • Oversee environmental field studies and environmental permitting applications, including agency consultations and coordination • Support proposals and business development for ERM’s transmission and power sector portfolio • Build collaborative relationships across ERM’s global network of experts • Serve as a technical and strategic lead and trusted advisor for greenfield and rebuild electric transmission projects

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Natural Resources, Land Use Planning, Geography, or related field (or equivalent experience) • 6+ years of consulting or industry experience with power clients on complex infrastructure projects • Experience managing and overseeing routing and siting for electric transmission lines, including development of route alternatives • Strong technical understanding of transmission line siting considerations and construction constraints, including wetlands, protected species, cultural resources, land use, and community impacts • Experience preparing routing studies, siting reports, and regulatory filings • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, influence stakeholders, manage budgets and schedules, and deliver high-quality work products • Willingness to travel up to 15% • Experience supporting or leading business development efforts, including proposal preparation • Experience supporting state siting authority filings, including expert witness testimony in evidentiary hearings • Familiarity with state siting authorities and environmental permitting processes for electric transmission projects • Resume and brief cover letter required

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) • Potential bonus pay eligibility for eligible employees