Senior Technical Director

🕒 May 16

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $145k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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J.S. Held LLC

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1001 - 5000 employees

💸 Finance

💰 Private Equity Round on 2015-10

Finance • Construction • Consulting

J. S. Held LLC is a global consulting firm that provides a broad array of technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to help clients navigate complex, high-stakes situations and mitigate risk. The company offers services across various industries including construction, insurance, and environmental services, with a focus on delivering solutions for contentious and catastrophic scenarios. Known for its integrity and clear-cut analysis, J. S. Held assists organizations by offering in-depth advisory on financial investigations, valuations, risk assessments, forensic services, and strategic planning. With a combination of world-class talent and technology, J. S. Held is dedicated to supporting its clients in making informed decisions while managing both tangible and intangible assets.

📋 Description

• Independently originate, pursue, and secure remediation, environmental liability, and waste management engagements without reliance on internally sourced work • Serve as primary client owner with accountability for repeat work, client expansion, and long-term relationships • Develop opportunities across insurance, industrial, energy, manufacturing, and transactional advisory clients, including work related to remediation, liability evaluation, redevelopment, and long‑term environmental programs • Lead large, complex waste and remediation programs, including multi‑site portfolios, corrective action sites, redevelopment‑driven remediation, CCR facilities, landfills, and long‑term programmatic engagements • Manage projects originated directly by the Senior Technical Director from pursuit through execution and closure • Maintain responsibility for scope control, budgeting, scheduling, and profitability • Provide senior technical leadership on remediation strategy, corrective action, regulatory negotiation, and closure planning • Lead development of conceptual site models, remedial alternatives analyses, cost-to-closure estimates, and liability frameworks • Collaborate with hydrogeology, geochemistry, risk, and transactional advisory teams • Interface directly with regulators (EPA, state agencies, and others) on remedial strategy, permitting, and closure • Support clients in enforcement, consent orders, corrective action, and redevelopment negotiations • Support clients on the technical aspects of environmental due diligence and transaction advisory, including environmental liability assessment, remediation risk evaluation, and pre- and post-acquisition planning • Provide remediation and regulatory strategy in support of redevelopment and brownfield projects, including coordination with development schedules and closure milestones • Provide advisory support related to environmental claims, including review and validation of remediation costs and technical support to insurance and legal stakeholders • Mentor and develop technical staff while building a sustainable pipeline of work to support utilization and growth

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Geology, Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related field; advanced degrees and professional licensure (PG, PE) preferred • 10 – 15+ years of consulting experience in waste management, remediation, corrective action, or environmental liability advisory • Demonstrated experience with regulatory frameworks such as RCRA, CERCLA, CCR Rule, state corrective action programs, and risk-based closure • Proven track record of originating consulting work and sustaining long-term client relationships in an external consulting environment • Demonstrated ability to articulate an active pipeline of client opportunities within waste, remediation, and environmental liability services • Experience serving as primary client contact with responsibility for pursuit strategy, pricing, and repeat work • Ability to manage complex technical projects while maintaining profitability and schedule discipline • Strong technical writing, QA/QC, and presentation skills • Demonstrated business judgment related to opportunity selection, client development, and service-line growth • Ability to travel as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment allows employees to work remotely, when needed • Flexible Time Off policy • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401k Match • Commuter Benefit